Editor Picks — Favourite Posts On CRY

Editor Picks — Favourite Posts On CRYImage by Erica Guilane Nachez

Here we go again, choosing favourites like a grandparent. But it’s fun and in true grandparent fashion, we are unapologetic about our favourites. Let’s get into it.

Kern

My favourite post on CRY right now is Ballad For The Sweet Boys by Henry Corrigan. I’m usually much more drawn to prose, but when Henry started off his piece “I am a violent man,” I knew immediately I was in for something special. This piece is about masculinity, toxic masculinity, growth and redemption; brutal and beautiful poetry with storytelling that’s on another level.

Favourite excerpt:

My uncle
Once at dinner
Stole food off of my plate
He didn’t stop
’Til I put my knife
Through the middle of his steak

I cut off a piece
And ate it
Looking him in the eye
My uncle shook his head
And said
At least now you don’t cry

Safia

This week, I’m also going to pick a poem for my favourite piece. Turns Out I’m an Asshole by Sylvia Wilde starts off with such raw honesty that you have to keep reading. Sylvia does an incredible job of capturing both the light and darker sides of our inner monologue. Toggling back and forth between humility and selfishness, joy and anger, Sylvia questions which of these feelings are most true to her core being. The poem also reflects on the sense of loneliness that is felt during these moments.

My favourite excerpt:

It’s a “fuck-you”
kind of day — 
the type where
peace and joy
are absent
and the person
I want to be
seems distant

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