Posts by League of Canadian Poets
National Volunteer Week 2023
The League of Canadian Poets is grateful to the dozens of volunteers who support our staff, our members, and our programs every year. This year, we’re excited to celebrate National Volunteer Week during our very favourite month – National Poetry Month! We’d like to recognize some of the incredible volunteers who have donated their time,…
Read MoreBalance by Forrest Orser
Ordinary Matter by Alice Major
Remembering Arlene Lampert
Arlene Lampert 1934-2023 Arlene passed away in her own home on February 22, 2023 It was peaceful and in her control. Arlene was a force of nature. Along with Gerald Lampert, Arlene was one of the founding members of the League of Canadian Poets. As Executive Director of the League, she was integrally involved in…
Read MoreNPM23 Blog: Rewilding Poetry Through Joy by Shannon Webb-Campbell
If you ask me if I made a new year’s resolution I’d tell you no. Such rigid ways often result in the opposite outcome, or at least that’s how it goes for me. I’ll make a resolution only to break the resolution. It’s the rebel within me. I blame the astrological fates. Not only am…
Read Moreon rollerblades dancing by Norma Kerby
T-O-R-T-U-R-E is a Seven-letter Word by Bruce Rice
2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture – Tolu Oloruntoba
The 2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: What have we left to us? Examining questions as a means of existential analysis in poetry with Tolu Oloruntoba This lecture is now available in print from Prairie Fire, Winter 22-23 Issue, Volume 43, No. 4. Check it out On the heels of a special Spring Anne Szumigalski Lecture from Parliamentary…
Read MoreIn Solitude by Jean Eng
NPM23 Blog: Joy at the Door by Ash Winters
Oh Joy, how I have searched for you on long dreary winter days. Sometimes thinking I have caught a glimpse of spring out of the corner of my eye only to have it vanish when I turn my head. On occasion, it has taken longer than I thought I could bear for you to arrive,…
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