Jesse Keith Butler won First Prize in the 2024 ESU Formal Verse Contest and Third Place in the 2023 Kierkegaard Poetry Competition. In 2026 he will be a Writer in Residence at Berton House in the Yukon. His poems are published in Arc Poetry Magazine, New Verse Review, Dappled Things, Blue Unicorn, and THINK Journal, among others. His first book, The Living Law (Darkly Bright Press, 2024) is available wherever books are sold. www.jessekeithbutler.ca