2017
2017 Life Members
Every year, the League is honoured to induct new Life Members into our ranks. Life Members are selected for their incredible contribution to poets and poetry in Canada, and the award is presented as a mark of distinction and appreciation for special achievements. 2017: Allan Briesmaster was honored with our life membership award, for his…
Read MoreNPM AND BEYOND: 10,000 HOURS, PART 1
National Poetry Month, for 2017, is celebrating the time of time. When Kate Hargreaves took that theme and ran with it for our poster and bookmark designs, she said that what she first thinks of when she hears “time” is editing: drafts, drafts, and more drafts. This got us to thinking: they say it takes 10,000…
Read More2017 POETRY READING CHALLENGE: CHECK-IN
2017 is somehow already four months underway, and we figured now would be a great time to check in with our 2017 Poetry Reading Challenge! National Poetry Month is a great time to either catch up or get ahead, depending on how the year is going for you. Here’s what we’ve been reading so far:…
Read MorePOETS RESIST: NPM ON ALL LIT UP, WEEK 2
This content has been provided by All Lit Up, an online bookstore and blog run by the Literary Press Group for readers of emerging, quirky, and unabashedly Canadian literature by some of Canada’s finest independent publishers. Here we are, already halfway through National Poetry Month! Over on the All Lit Up blog, poets continue to…
Read MoreBroadsheet Contest 2017 Winner: cat and door by Doyali Islam
Congrats to Doyali Islam, winner of the 2017 Broadsheet Contest.
Read MorePOETS RESIST: NPM ON ALL LIT UP
This content has been provided by All Lit Up, an online bookstore and blog run by the Literary Press Group for readers of emerging, quirky, and unabashedly Canadian literature by some of Canada’s finest independent publishers. We are so excited to be able to share some amazing National Poetry Month content from our friends over…
Read More2017 Awards: Shortlists
We are thrilled to announce the 2017 Poetry Awards shortlists for the Gerald Lampert and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, the Raymond Souster Award and, together with the Calgary Spoken Word Society, the finalists for the 2017 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award. The winners of these awards will be announced at an awards ceremony in Toronto on Saturday, June…
Read MoreNATIONAL POETRY MONTH… AND BEYOND!
Here we are again, in our favourite month of the year: it’s April and we’re celebrating National Poetry Month! We’re only three days into the month and we’ve already seen so many great projects, initiatives, and resources going around on social media–we’re excited to round up some of those resources for you here, as well…
Read More2017 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners
Join the League of Canadian Poets in celebrating the six winners of the 2017 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize!
Read MoreFRESH VOICES: JOHN PICKERNELL, KJMUNRO, AND SUE BRACKEN
This first installation of Fresh Voices is a project spearheaded by the League’s Associate Membership Representative, Lesley Strutt. The League’s associate members are talented poets who are writing and publishing poetry on their way to becoming established professional poets in the Canadian literary community. We are excited to be taking this opportunity to showcase the…
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