Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Sea Stories” by Jide Salawu, from Contraband Bodies (NeWest Press 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Raymond Souster Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “ANTELOPE” by Karen Solie, from Wellwater (2025 Anansi, Picador 2026 FSG), shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Hourglass Procedure” by Hajer Mirwali, from Revolutions (Talonbooks, 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Blessing for the Swim Selfie” by Anna Swanson, from The Garbage Poems (Brick Books 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read an excerpt from “A Hundred Times” by Todd Meyers, from Gone Gone (Duke University Press Books 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Pain” by Tea Gerbeza, from How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Shadow Price” by Farah Ghafoor, from Shadow Price (House of Anansi Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Manic Pixie Dreams” by Kyo Lee, from i cut my tongue on a broken country (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “KATRINA (New Orleans, The Levees, 2005)” by Stephanie Bolster, from Long Exposure (Palimpsest Press 2025), shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Read “Digital Twin” by Qurat Dar, from Non-Prophet (Goose Lane Editions, 2025), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award.