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NPM23 Blog: 6 Activities to Spark Creative Joy
by Leila-Indira Mohabeer-Ortiz Happy National Poetry Month! April is a month of joy, with the weather getting warmer and the sun shining brighter, the springtime brings forward a multitude of opportunities to get those creative juices flowing. If you find yourself with a creative itch to scratch, but you’re not quite sure how to get…
Read MoreNPM23 Blog: Pulling Joy Forward by Elizabeth Mudenyo
Easy Joy Rock huntinghands digging past algaeknee deep in water orkeeled over dusting off sandputting rocks in the bucket of our shirtsshining them and showing them offWhat a lucky find.Oh and this turquoise note!This red accent!Good eye, good eye! It cost nothingto be that fortunatetime was elastic never wastedevery minute foundits home Many once removed…
Read MoreNPM23 Blog: Rewilding Poetry Through Joy by Shannon Webb-Campbell
If you ask me if I made a new year’s resolution I’d tell you no. Such rigid ways often result in the opposite outcome, or at least that’s how it goes for me. I’ll make a resolution only to break the resolution. It’s the rebel within me. I blame the astrological fates. Not only am…
Read MoreNPM23 Blog: Joy at the Door by Ash Winters
Oh Joy, how I have searched for you on long dreary winter days. Sometimes thinking I have caught a glimpse of spring out of the corner of my eye only to have it vanish when I turn my head. On occasion, it has taken longer than I thought I could bear for you to arrive,…
Read MoreNational Poetry Month 2023: Joy – Social Media Graphics
This April 2023, we celebrate National Poetry Month: JOY! LCP has partnered with designer Megan Fildes for our poster, bookmark and Poem In Your Pocket Postcards this National Poetry Month 2023. How will you celebrate poetry and JOY? If you are celebrating NPM in person or online, LCP has prepared the following graphics for your…
Read MoreNPM 2022: Intimacy
National Poetry Month 2022: INTIMACY April 2022 is National Poetry Month! The League of Canadian Poets invites you to celebrate the 24nd National Poetry Month this April 2022 with the theme of intimacy. This National Poetry Month, we invite you to celebrate with the theme of INTIMACY. We crave it. We fear it. We are…
Read MorePoem in Your Pocket Day 2022
Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 29, 2022 – is an international movement that encourages people to centre poetry within their daily interactions. On PIYP Day, select a poem, carry it with you, and share it with others at schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, coffee shops, street corners, and on social media using the…
Read MoreNPM22 Blog: Why? And Why Now?: On Poetry and Companionship by Rob Taylor
My mother is disappearing. Diagnosed with dementia six years ago, in recent months her confusion has redoubled, her memories leaving and arriving as unpredictably as fish to the surface of a pond. If she goes out of her house for a walk, she can’t always find her way back. If she wakes up after a…
Read MoreA Gathering of Poets in Response to Peril
How do poets respond to precarious events in the world? In his famous elegy for W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden says, “poetry makes nothing happen.” And he adds: “it survives, / A way of happening, a mouth.” “On Feb. 24, 2022, when the world woke to the shock of the catastrophic bombing of Ukraine,”…
Read MoreNPM22 Blog: An Ecology of Intimacy: Through the Lens of Poetry by Penn Kemp
From Intimacy to Intimate, sans Intimidation. When asked to write a piece for National Poetry Month on Intimacy, who’s intimidated? Not me. I’ll just skip that ‘id’ and intimate softly what my heart wants…Yes, the heart wants intimacy, and who’s getting any, who’s getting too much in the last two years of involuntary isolation? My…
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