My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet by Misha Solomon
(Brick Books)
March 15, 2026
THIS POETRY COLLECTION by the Montreal writer and Concordia University scholar, who has been published in every Canadian literary journal imaginable, envisions alternative realities for a queer ancestor. The highly personal collection of poems moves between multiple locations and time periods, including New York City and Romania, as well as Solomon’s contemporary experiences living in Montreal. In his master’s thesis, where he developed this work, Solomon wrote that his hope was to create “metapoems that explore my queer longing” through an innovative Jewish lens. Jonathan Rothman
