Posts by LCP
On Inishmore by Barbara E. Hunt
Bequests under a will
The League of Canadian Poets is grateful to receive bequests under a will. When the time comes to update your will—something that should be done every five years or when family connections change—it is time to consider what you would like to leave to the purposes that have the greatest significance to you. For poets,…
Read MoreTara Borin: CBC radio interview
Inaugural LCP Poet Ambassador in Residence Tara Borin chats with CBC’s Airplay about the new role. Listen now!
Read MoreDandelions by Melissa Lam
Announcing the Poet Ambassador In Residence Program
The League is thrilled to announce our inaugural Poet Ambassador in Residence, Tara Borin! The Poet Ambassador in Residence program is an opportunity for the League to work with some of Canada’s most exciting poets in support of our mission.
Read MoreAndromeda by Melanie Power
2023 Anne Szumigalski Lecture – Joshua Whitehead
The 2023 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: On Reparative vs Paranoid Writing The Ethics and Carework of Storytelling with Joshua Whitehead Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick introduced us to paranoid vs reparative reading in her book, Touching Feeling, in which she argues against a hermeneutics of readerly suspicion as coined by philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, and calls for us to…
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