Posts by LCP
A World of Poetry
by Bill Arnott for National Poetry Month, April 2020 A world of poetry. This, I understand. Being witness to stomped-verse haka in Waitangi, the lyrical thrum of Outback didgeridoo, breathy sax in a wet London underpass, red slashed characters on a mud wall in Hebei, tanka blurred through joss smoke in Kyoto, rantings of a…
Read More2020 Book Awards: Longlist Announcement
The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2020 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. April 20, 2020: Read the 2020 Book Awards Shortlist Announcement 2020 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST Awarded annually since 1981, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in the memory of Gerald…
Read MoreWhat has been left out: Feminist Caucus Living Archive Series
Ayesha Chatterjee, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Joanne Arnott, Sadiqa de Meijer, Jónína Kirton, Valerie Mason-John, Andrea Thompson, Ayesha Chatterjee, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Joanne Arnott, Sadiqa de Meijer
Read MoreA Shared Tapestry: Poetry, Community and Culture
by Jeevan Bhagwat for National Poetry Month, April 2020 The world is filled with poetry. It spills out from neighbourhood cafes and public school classrooms across the nation, saturating its soil with culture. Now more than ever, poetry is experiencing a renaissance that is manifested in the proliferation of alternative venues where poets can share…
Read More2020 Book Awards: Shortlists
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2021 Book Awards Shortlists, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. 2020 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD SHORTLIST Awarded annually since 1981, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized author tours…
Read MoreNational Poetry Month: Prompted
by Jude Neale for National Poetry Month, April 2020 I have written to many different forms of inspiration—music, art, dance and poetic collaboration. During this process I wrote and published seven books of poems. I am moved by everything to create my imagist poems. This time last year I was determined to follow the NPM19…
Read More2020 Book Awards: Longlists
The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2021 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. Please join us in celebrating the incredible poetry of 2020! Learn more about the 2020 awards and celebrate the poetry of 2019: 2020 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST Awarded…
Read More2020 Very Small Verse Contest Winner: Diana Manole — Lovers
Congratulations to Diana Manole for her winning poem, “Lovers” winner of the 2019-2020 Very Small Verse Contest! Diana Manole is an award-winning writer, translator, and scholar. She has won fourteen literary awards, published nine collections of poems and plays, contributed original works and translations to magazines and anthologies in Romania, Canada, the US, and the UK.…
Read MorePoetry Pause: Wendy Donawa – Going Dark
Review: We Are Malala: poems and art by Katerina Vaughan Fretwell
Review by Penn Kemp A Canadian artist muses on Malala Yousafzai in poetic dialogue Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, We Are Malala: poems and art. Inanna Press “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” —Malala Yousafzai On the day I read Katerina Vaughan Fretwell’s We Are Malala, a photo appears on my…
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