Posts by LCP
LCP Chapbook Series – These Lands: A Collection of Voices by Black Poets in Canada
Now available! Edited by Chelene Knight and hand-sewn by Nic Brewer, this limited-run chapbook is available for purchase. Fill out the form via the link below to get your copy today. From Chelene Knight’s introduction: “The poems in this collection are filled with incredible Black voices belting necessary narratives. Through a calling in of community,…
Read MorePoetry Pause x Augur: Lynne Sargent – Beauty, Sleeping
About Augur: Augur is a literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes. We are excited by writing that is difficult to classify—whether speculative, surreal, or slightly strange. We’re interested in realist pieces that verge on the dreamlike; speculative stories that are almost realist;…
Read MorePoetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Maureen Hynes – Luminosity
Poetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Jim Nason – Eggshells
Poetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang – Make Lemonade
Poetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Sadiqa de Meijer – The Roaring Alongside
Sadiqa de Meier will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union
Read MorePoetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Dani Couture – Transit in Mercury
Dani Couture will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union
Read MorePoetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Puneet Dutt – Keys
Puneet Dutt will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union
Read MoreReflections on Black History Month by Andrea Thompson
I wrote “A Selected History of Soul Speak” in response to a request by Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron for a poem to be included in their anthology, The Great Black North (Frontenac Press, 2013). In approaching the poem, I saw spoken word in Canada as a kind of ocean – fed by many cultural and creative…
Read MorePoetry Pause x Poetry in Union: Lois Lorimer – April
Lois Lorimer will be one of many amazing poets available to create custom, in-the-moment poems at the League’s Poetry In Union event on February 14, 2020. Find out more about Poetry In Union
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