LCP, Author at League of Canadian Poets

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 30, 2025

As a settler-colonial organization, the League recognizes its own historical role in the exclusion of Indigenous poets from the wider poetry community and network in Canada.

“Slippage” by Susan McCaslin

September 29, 2025

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Slippage” by Susan McCaslin, which first appeared in Poetry Pause in June 2020.

“dream of the neolithic hunter” by Martin Jones

September 26, 2025

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “dream of the neolithic hunter” by Martin Jones, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program.

“Nunc Dimittis” by DC Reid

September 22, 2025

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Nunc Dimittis” by DC Reid

Spoken Word Saturday: Shafraz Ladak

September 20, 2025

Spoken Word Saturday is a showcase of the amazing Spoken Word Poetry talent that can be found from coast to coast

“KLEPTOTHERMY AND OTHER THEFTS OF FLESH” by Cassandra Myers

September 19, 2025

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “KLEPTOTHERMY AND OTHER THEFTS OF FLESH” by Cassandra Myers, winner of the 2025 Arts & Letters Club of Toronto Foundation Poetry Award.

“A poem about death and tomatoes” by Maria Giesbrecht

September 19, 2025

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “A poem about death and tomatoes” by Maria Giesbrecht, winner of the 2025 Lesley Strutt Poetry Prize.

2025 Summer Lovin’ Contest winners

September 19, 2025

Join the League of Canadian Poets in congratulating Maria Giesbrecht, Shafraz Ladak, and Cassandra Myers, winners of the 2025 Summer Lovin’ Contests!

The Next Generation: Vol. VI

September 19, 2025

A book with an orange cover featuring six greyscale windows, and the words The Next Generation

Celebrate the winners of the 2025 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Young Poets in the sixth edition of The Next Generation, a chapbook of poems by youth.