Louie Leyson

Louie Leyson,poet

Louie Leyson was awarded the CBC Literary Prize in Nonfiction (2023), longlisted for the CBC Literary Prize in Poetry (2024), and is the recipient of a grant by the Canada Council for the Arts. You can find their works in Nimrod Journal, The Malahat Review, DIAGRAM, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

Love Has Torn Us Apart Again, Isaac on the Altar — Volume 10, Issue 3

Louie Leyson writes with lyric intensity and formal daring in two poems that circle each other like twin wounds. Love Has Torn Us Apart Again fractures and reassembles itself on the page—a poem about the disorienting recursion of love and shame, where time folds back on itself and forgiveness is something you wait your turn for. Isaac on the Altar descends into the body’s oldest hunger, reimagining the biblical bind of sacrifice and devotion as something achingly physical— a boy starved enough to forgive everything, even the hand that bound him.