Anna Veprinska - Wound Archive
from Crow Reads Podcast Hosted by Rayanne Haines
In honour of National Poetry Month, in this episode, I speak with poet and scholar Anna Veprinska about her masterfully crafted poetry collection Wound Archive. We discuss the completeness of fragments and the resistance to closure, the use of white space and punctuation, and the editing process within compression. Anna Veprinska is the author of the poetry collections Wound Archive (Porcupine's Quill, 2026), Bonememory (University of Calgary Press, 2025), and Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas Press, 2014). She is also the author of the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She was a finalist twice for the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest, has been shortlisted twice for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence, and was a winner of the ChinookPoetry Contest. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Wound Archive is a collection of minimalist poems that archives the wound left by the concurrent ending of a relationship and the beginning of a chronic invisible illness. These poems comprise a fragmented archive in which woundedness turns language—figuratively and at times formally—upside down. The symbol of the wound recurs throughout, punctuating the ways both heartbreak and illness are experienced in the body.
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