Poetry Pause
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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.
Read More“Slippage” by Susan McCaslin
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.
Read More“dream of the neolithic hunter” by Martin Jones
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.
Read More“Etymology of Swabian Spätzle” by Louise Ells
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Etymology of Swabian Spätzle” by Louise Ells.
Read More“Imperium, or instructions on submission” by Nathan Hauch
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Imperium, or instructions on submission” by Nathan Hauch.
Read More“Family To Do Lists–Dec 26, 1961” by Nancy Issenman
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Family To Do Lists–Dec 26, 1961” by Nancy Issenman.
Read More“Nunc Dimittis” by DC Reid
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Nunc Dimittis” by DC Reid
Read MoreSpoken Word Saturday: Shafraz Ladak
Spoken Word Saturday is a showcase of the amazing Spoken Word Poetry talent that can be found from coast to coast
Read More“KLEPTOTHERMY AND OTHER THEFTS OF FLESH” by Cassandra Myers
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.
Read More“A poem about death and tomatoes” by Maria Giesbrecht
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.
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