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#NPM19: Weekly Round-Up | WEEK THREE
Overwhelmed by all the amazing National Poetry Month content coming out every day? Need a refresher? We’ll be rounding up our blog content, along with the awesome stuff our friends at Read Local BC, Open Book, All Lit Up, 49th Shelf, and CBC Books are releasing – plus other NPM news that catches our eye each week; all month long. – From the League’s…
Read More#NPM19: 5 Nature Activities to Invigorate your Writing Practice!
The theme for National Poetry Month this year is nature – a broad topic, especially within the context of Canada across which are spread varied types of landscapes and natural environments. Whether it’s mountain ranges, deserts, forests, oceans, or plains; whether it’s a cityscape or a landscape, for #NPM19, we encourage you to spend time…
Read More“Still Be Still Be Still Be” by Harry Posner
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Still Be Still Be Still Be” by Harry Posner, part of the 2019 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection
Read More#NPM19: What might grow from this | By Terrence Abrahams
“I got tired of learning masculinity from humans, so I studied the male wren, building his nest twig by twig, singing a sweet song to attract a mate, feeding his young via beak. I studied the barred owl, solitary witness calling out to others from his perch high up in an old burr oak, his…
Read More#NPM19: Weekly Round-Up | WEEK TWO
Overwhelmed by all the amazing National Poetry Month content coming out every day? Need a refresher? We’ll be rounding up our blog content, along with the awesome stuff our friends at Read Local BC, Open Book, All Lit Up, 49th Shelf, and CBC Books are releasing – plus other NPM news that catches our eye each week; all month long. – From…
Read More#NPM19: the music of our mother’s movement and voice | By Rita Bouvier
As I begin the task of writing, I am distracted by the cacophony of birdsongs that fill the air in this otherwise, quiet afternoon in the Coachella Valley. Spring has returned! The air is filled with insistent tweets, whistles and warbles. Nearby, tiny hummingbirds are hovering expeditiously or is it precipitously over the flowers of…
Read More#NPM19: The Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist Announcement
The reveal of the Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist is a significant date on the calendars of all those interested in Canadian poetry; it is the world’s largest prize for a first edition single collection of poetry written in English. Candidates are shortlisted in two categories: Canadian and International. The shortlist was released today, April 9, 2019, and the League is very…
Read More#NPM19: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral / Rock, Paper, Scissors: On Living Both the Urban and the Rural | By Jennifer LoveGrove
More times than I can count, this happens to me: I’m at a Toronto reading or book launch and a literary acquaintance says, “I thought you lived in the middle of nowhere in a cabin in the woods! What are you doing here?” When I’m at the log cabin on thirteen acres of woods, field and wetlands –…
Read More#NPM19: Weekly Round-Up | WEEK ONE
Overwhelmed by all the amazing National Poetry Month content coming out every day? Need a refresher? We’ll be rounding up our blog content, along with the awesome stuff our friends at Open Book, All Lit Up, 49th Shelf, and CBC Books are releasing – plus other NPM news that catches our eye each week; all month long. – From the League’s own…
Read More#NPM19: What does poetry mean to you?
April is our favourite time of year because everyone is talking about poetry! We are incredibly proud of and humbled by the role we play in supporting and amplifying the voices of Canada’s incredible poets and their contributions to the Canadian – and global – poetry community. Poetry does so much: it can elicit emotion,…
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