Dear Readers: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover week. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts.

Over 500 poems were read by Ariel Gordon and Charlene Diehl (of Plume Winnipeg) from more than 100 submissions; all selected poets save Deerchild are making their first appearance in Writes of Spring.