JC Sulzenko, Canadian Poet & Author

Just out and available online and in print is ArtAscent Art & Literature Journal’’s glorious first issue of 2026 with its focus on themes related to children and childhood.

JC thanks the editors of this international publication for selecting her free verse poem, “Back to where we belong,” first published in South Shore Suite…Poems (Point Petre Publishing). 

The poem captures an adult child’s return home to convalesce and the push and pull the parent feels during that period of intense closeness. 

As Editor Lou Riegler observed, “JC Sulzenko writes with clarity and honesty giving voice to emotions that many people feel but are reluctant to express. As both a mother and a poet, she offers reassurance to her readers, gently reminding us that letting go is, fundamentally, an act of love.”Here’s a link to the issue where you can read “Back to where we belong” and from where you can order the publication in digital or print form: https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/3279411

“ Wisdom,” a five-line poem, first appeared in Life, after life—from epitaph to epilogue, the 2024 collection from Aeolus House and attributed to A. Garnett Weiss.  JC Sulzenko uses this pen name for the found poetry she writes.

California’s Silver Birch Press published “Wisdom” on March 6, 2026 in its current online series, BUGS AND INSECTS.  Here’s the link to that post:

JC thanked publisher Melanie Villines for including her work. “I am honoured to take part in this series which includes observations from diverse poets about the good, the bad and the ugly in the insect and bug world,” JC noted. “ Wisdom is about child-like wonder. It’s a favourite poem of mine.”

Silver Birch Press has featured a number of poems written by JC and JC writing as A. Garnett Weiss. Her work appears in Ides, A Collection of Poetry Chapbooks and also in the Nancy Drew Anthology from the same house.