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2021 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners

Join the League of Canadian Poets in celebrating the six winners of the 2021 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize!

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The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award 2021 Winner: Jillian Christmas

Congratulations to Jillian Christmas, The Winner of the 2021 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award! 2021 SHERI-D WILSON GOLDEN BERET AWARD WINNER for lifetime achievement in Canadian spoken word poetry The Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award is an annual literary prize crafted specifically to highlight the unique strengths and values of spoken word poetry. The Sheri-D…

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Very Small Verse 2021 Winner: Sometimes by Rae Crossman

Congratulations to Rae Crossman, winner of the 2022 Very Small Verse Contest! 

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Statement of support: In solidarity against hate for Asians and Asian Canadians

SOLIDARITY AGAINST HATE (July 6, 2020) Deeply disturbing hate crimes against Asians and Asian Canadians across Canada, both physical and verbal assaults, have risen sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Prime Minister of Canada and provincial and municipal leaders have all clearly stated that hate, violence, xenophobia, and discrimination have no place in our country.…

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2020 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth – Winning Poems

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The LCP New Quebec Council Representative: Carolyne Van Der Meer

The League is happy to announce that Carolyne Van Der Meer is the new council representative for Quebec.   Why is poetry important to you? In the words of Quebec novelist and poet David Goudreault, “Poetry is just another way of saying” (“La poésie est de dire autrement”). I believe this is true—another way of…

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2020 Raymond Souster Award Winner: Unmeaningable by Roxanna Bennett

and the 2020 Raymond Souster award goes to… Unmeaningable by Roxanna Bennett (Gordon Hill Press) From the jurors: Where and how is meaning made in a body that interferes with its own lines of communication? Roxanna Bennett’s Unmeaningable is a powerful example of embodied cognition. Crafted with rigorous precision, Bennett’s poems bore into a linguistic system…

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