Yvette LeClair
Yvette LeClair,poet
Yvette LeClair is a workers’ rights activist and a compulsive note-taker. She is thankful to have grown up near a library. Her poems appear in The Literary Review of Canada, Working Title Lit, Queen’s Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, Contemporary Verse 2, and others. In 2025, on invitation from Arc Poetry, she worked with T. Liem as part of their Poet-In-Residence Program. Her chapbook, A Girl So Easily, with Pinhole Poetry debuts in April 2026. She has a day job in downtown Toronto, where she lives with her husband and two calico cats. Find her on Instagram @yvetteleclair.
Food, Train Station Double Take — Volume 10, Issue 3
Two poems by Yvette LeClair arrive in quiet conversation with each other. In Food, desire unfolds through the sensory act of eating—an olive crushed between teeth becomes a meditation on hunger, mystery, and the body’s deeper appetites. In Train Station Double Take, a stranger’s face triggers a sideways elegy about grief, recognition, and the lengths we go to remain knowable to those we love.
