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National Poetry Month

NPM22 Blog: Poetry: An Intimate Journey by Jennifer Wenn

As the pandemic stretches into its third year (with, we all hope, an end in sight), the multifaceted and crucial phenomenon of intimacy has become a focus for many of us.  In some cases we have perhaps become overly familiar with the same surroundings or people; many other times there has been deprivation due to…

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2022 Book Awards: Longlists

The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2022 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award,  Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. 2022 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST Awarded annually since 1981, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is given in the memory of Gerald Lampert, an arts administrator who organized…

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NPM22 Blog: I’m not an expert in intimacy and neither are you by Tyler Pennock

I’m not an expert in intimacy            and neither are you by Tyler Pennock Read this article and poem in magazine format I used to think that definitive things were evil. That an exact definition, a perfect example embedded the notion that nothing is good enough, and that no one would…

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LCP50: Celebrating 50 years

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