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NPM 2022: Intimacy
National Poetry Month 2022: INTIMACY April 2022 is National Poetry Month! The League of Canadian Poets invites you to celebrate the 24nd National Poetry Month this April 2022 with the theme of intimacy. This National Poetry Month, we invite you to celebrate with the theme of INTIMACY. We crave it. We fear it. We are…
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2022
Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 29, 2022 – is an international movement that encourages people to centre poetry within their daily interactions. On PIYP Day, select a poem, carry it with you, and share it with others at schools, bookstores, libraries, parks, workplaces, coffee shops, street corners, and on social media using the…
NPM22 Blog: Why? And Why Now?: On Poetry and Companionship by Rob Taylor
My mother is disappearing. Diagnosed with dementia six years ago, in recent months her confusion has redoubled, her memories leaving and arriving as unpredictably as fish to the surface of a pond. If she goes out of her house for a walk, she can’t always find her way back. If she wakes up after a…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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