#NPM18: WEEKLY ROUND-UP | WEEK THREE
Overwhelmed by all the amazing National Poetry Month content coming out every day? Need a refresher? We’ll be rounding up our blog content, along with the awesome stuff our friends at Open Book, All Lit Up, 49th Shelf, and CBC Books are releasing – plus other NPM news that catches our eye each week; all month long.
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From the League’s own #NPM18 blog:
A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM THE LEAGUE: Poem-a-Day
Fresh Voices: Norma Kerby, Martha Swinn, A. Garnett Weiss
12 Canadian Nature Poetry Books | Guest post by Terrence Abrahams
16 Indigenous Writers and Artists to Learn From | Guest post by Chelene Knight
A List of 20 Current Chapbook Presses | Guest post by rob mclennan
The Writing Parent: A Lesson on Patience | Guest post by Vanessa Shields
From Open Book:
“I Write to Make Sense of Worries” David James Brock on Finding the Calm in Poetry
From All Lit Up:
Last year we raised our poetic fists for National Poetry Month with Poets Resist, a month-long celebration of poetry as a form of resistance. This year, we’re taking a deep breath and preserving our collective strength with Poetry Cure, a series dedicated to poetry as a mode of healing. Every day on All Lit Up, we’ll chat with a different poet and share a poem that we hope will be a little breath of fresh air as you move through your day. Plus, sign up for our Daily Poetry Cure newsletter and get a poem delivered to your inbox every day for the whole month. So go ahead and check out our cool, fresh line-up of poets coming your way starting on April 2.
Poetry Cure: Songen by Patrick Friesen
Poetry Cure: Book of Annotations by Cameron Anstee
Poetry Cure: Elemental by Kate Braid
Poetry Cure: Like by Max Layton
Poetry Cure: Ritual Lights by Joelle Barron
From 49th Shelf:
Nothing new this week!
From CBC Books:
7 books and poems that inspire Governor General’s Literary Award-winning poet Richard Harrison
Why poet Najwa Zebian shredded her first writing journal
Canisia Lubrin on how poetry orients us to ‘the complexities of life’
Why Jeff Latosik believes poetry can be “chaotic and hard to chart”
Where award-winning writer Gregory Scofield finds the power in poetry
How confronting body image issues inspired Mallory Tater’s debut poetry collection
Joshua Whitehead on poetry’s radical, survivalist nature
9 must-read Canadian poetry for children and young adults
Canadian students win $25,000 national poetry competition
Why we can count on poetry, according to Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Donato Mancini
The poets that inspire Cree storyteller Louise Bernice Halfe
#NPM18 in the news:
National Poetry Month: Local Writers on their Favourite Poems from the Moose Jaw Independent
Tap your inner poet this National Poetry Month from the Winnipeg Free Press
Poetry at Large in Oxford this weekend from Cumberland News Now