NPM 2020: The Weekly Roundup (April 1 – 10)

Welcome to the first weekly round-up for National Poetry Month 2020. Below are highlights from this week’s NPM announcements, activities, blog, events, poetry prompts and more.  Celebrating the 2020 LCP Book Awards Longlist In honour of our first announcement of the 2020 Book Awards season, we would like to take an opportunity to congratulate and celebrate the…

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Poetry in Union 2020

A man sits at a table with flowers and a typewriter, writing a poem on a sheet of paper

The League of Canadian Poets and Toronto’s Union Station are very proud to have presented Poetry in Union 2020, a public art experience.

At this event, a selection of Toronto’s strongest, most diverse and most talented poets provided personalized poetry on request to reflect participants’ own experiences and stories. This annual event provides a unique opportunity to interact directly with an artist to create a romantic valentine’s gift, celebrate a friend, experience, or key moment.

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2019 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners

Congratulations to the 2019 Winners of the Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize! The Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth was established to foster a lifelong relationship between Canadian youth and the literary arts, specifically poetry. The prize is supported through a generous donation from the Stursberg family and other donors in honour of Jessamy Stursberg. The prize accepts submissions from young…

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