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2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner: How She Read by Chantal Gibson
and the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award goes to… How She Read by Chantal Gibson (Caitlin Press) From the jurors: Chantal Gibson’s How She Read creates its illuminating poetics through language, image, and a hieroglyphic that only slowly reveals its significance. From a song of praise to Black girls; to an homage to the poet’s grandfather,…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards: Interview with Roxanna Bennett
Roxanna Bennett is the author of Unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press) and the winner of the 2020 Raymond Souster Award by the League of Canadian Poets. Find out more about Roxanna’s poetry and process below: LCP: Tell the story of how your collection came to be. RB: I began gathering and arranging material in different…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards Winners Announcement
The League of Canadian Poets (LCP) is thrilled to announce the 2020 Poetry Awards winners for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Raymond Souster Award and Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award. Congratulations to all of the poets and publishers for their fine work and many thanks to the jurors for their dedication…
Read MoreLanguage, Travel, Eros, Being: How the Airplane, Structured Like a Language Is “A World of Poetry”
by Adeena Karasick for National Poetry Month, April 2020 As a New York based, Canadian poet, performer, lecturer, committed to a poetics of diaspora, nomadicism, or as bill bissett says “yesmadicism,” I have found myself on a lot of airplanes. Coincidentally, the publication of this article in honor of National Poetry Month coincides with the…
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 MoreBroadsheet Contest 2020 Winner: Cosmic Egg Hypothesis by Laura Cok
Congrats to Laura Cok, winner of the 2020 Broadsheet Contest.
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 More2020 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner: Charlie C Petch
and the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award goes to… Charlie C Petch Charlie C Petch is an award winning playwright, spoken word artist, haiku deathmaster, host and musical saw player. Petch is touring their spoken word theatre piece, “Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum’s Rush” which got “Best of 2017” from Electric City Magazine for the radio play accompanying album “Odes…
Read MoreLCP 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 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…
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