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by Feng Zhou for National Poetry Month, April 2020 There is an old book called “General Songs of Tang” in China, which recorded about 3,000 poets and 50,000 poems written in the Tang Dynasty (from 618 to 907). The book earned China its nickname: poetry nation. Today, the book still fascinates and inspires the whole…
NPM 2020: The Weekly Roundup (April 1 – 10)
Welcome to the first weekly round-up for National Poetry Month 2020. Below are highlights from this week’s NPM announcements, activities, blog, events, poetry prompts and more. Celebrating the 2020 LCP Book Awards Longlist In honour of our first announcement of the 2020 Book Awards season, we would like to take an opportunity to congratulate and celebrate the…
Translating Poetry
by Erín Moure for National Poetry Month, April 2020 Toronto-native poet Norma Cole got me translating poetry. I wouldn’t have had the confidence on my own! I’d been improving my French for over a decade in Montreal when, in 1996, Norma emailed me from San Francisco asking me to co-translate some poems from French with…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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