#NPM18: 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 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.
This week we’re also highlighting blogs run by League members who are posting about National Poetry Month or sharing poetry for the occasion! Get a glimpse of NPM from a poet’s eye!
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From the League’s own #NPM18 blog:
2018 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize Announcement
The Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist Announcement
The Twenty on Discipline | Guest Post by Vanessa Shields
20 Words for NPM’s 20th Anniversary – A Poetry Challenge From the League
13 Spooky Poems and Poetry Tidbits for Friday the 13th | Guest Post by Domenica Martinello
10 Ways to Support your Favourite Poets
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From League member-run blogs:
Nationalpoetrymonth.ca | Amanda Earl
The Want – a glosa based on Rilke’s poem | Janet Vickers
claudiaradmore.com | Claudia Radmore
It’s Here! National Poetry Month 2018! Let’s Celebrate! | Debbie Okun Hill
Purple Mountain Poetry | Linda Crosfield
Quillfyre | Carol A Stephen
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From Open Book:
Contest! Enter to Win an Incredible Poetry Month Prize Pack from Wolsak & Wynn!
“In my poetry, I make room for what escapes stories,” an interview with Bänoo Zan
Lenea Grace on Proving Canada Exists in Her Debut Poetry Collection
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From All Lit Up:
Last year we raised our poetic fists for National Poetry Month with Poets Resist, a month-long celebration of poetry as a form of resistance. This year, we’re taking a deep breath and preserving our collective strength with Poetry Cure, a series dedicated to poetry as a mode of healing. Every day on All Lit Up, we’ll chat with a different poet and share a poem that we hope will be a little breath of fresh air as you move through your day. Plus, sign up for our Daily Poetry Cure newsletter and get a poem delivered to your inbox every day for the whole month. So go ahead and check out our cool, fresh line-up of poets coming your way starting on April 2.
Poetry Cure: I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game by Alison Dyer
Poetry Cure: This Will Be Good by Mallory Tater
Poetry Cure: Museum of Kindness of Susan Elmslie
Poetry Cure: Lasting, Leaving, Left by Robin Dyke
Poetry Cure: page as bone – ink as blood by Jónína Kirton
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From 49th Shelf:
Eric Schmaltz: Reading at the Intersection of Text and Image
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From CBC Books:
14 Canadian poets to watch in 2018
The 2018 Shakespeare Selfie Student Writing Challenge is now open for submissions
Why poetry matters to poet, novelist and playwright Priscila Uppal
Why poetry matters to Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Billy-Ray Belcourt
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#NPM18 in the news:
Charlottetown gets creative with mayor’s Poetry City challenge from the Journal Pioneer
Parkland Poets Collective hosting Edmonton Poetry Festival event from the Sprucegrove Examiner