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2020 Very Small Verse Contest Winner: Diana Manole — Lovers
Congratulations to Diana Manole for her winning poem, “Lovers” winner of the 2019-2020 Very Small Verse Contest! Diana Manole is an award-winning writer, translator, and scholar. She has won fourteen literary awards, published nine collections of poems and plays, contributed original works and translations to magazines and anthologies in Romania, Canada, the US, and the UK.…
2020 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner: Charlie C Petch
and the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award goes to… Charlie C Petch Charlie C Petch is an award winning playwright, spoken word artist, haiku deathmaster, host and musical saw player. Petch is touring their spoken word theatre piece, “Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum’s Rush” which got “Best of 2017” from Electric City Magazine for the radio play accompanying album “Odes…
LCP Chapbook Series – These Lands: A Collection of Voices by Black Poets in Canada
Now available! Edited by Chelene Knight and hand-sewn by Nic Brewer, this limited-run chapbook is available for purchase. Fill out the form via the link below to get your copy today. From Chelene Knight’s introduction: “The poems in this collection are filled with incredible Black voices belting necessary narratives. Through a calling in of community,…
Reflections on Black History Month by Andrea Thompson
I wrote “A Selected History of Soul Speak” in response to a request by Valerie Mason-John and Kevan Anthony Cameron for a poem to be included in their anthology, The Great Black North (Frontenac Press, 2013). In approaching the poem, I saw spoken word in Canada as a kind of ocean – fed by many cultural and creative…
Learning from Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949-2019)
Introduction by Diana Manole Pier Giorgio Di Cicco’s poems have always brought me the enjoyment of spiritual grace strongly grounded in sociopolitical and cultural activism. I’ve taught his work in all my Canadian Literature courses, while also emphasizing his contribution to helping Canadians become aware of the very existence and wealth of immigrants’ literature through…
Happening Now! 3rd Annual Drunken Clock Silent Auction is live!
Our Auction is open for bidding! Find amazing tickets, entertainment, gift cards, one-of-a-kind gifts and more here: https://www.32auctions.com/DrunkenClock2019
Introducing Brickyard
by Adebe DeRango-Adem Voice. The utterance. A performance of vocal sound. The oral/oracular tradition in the literary arts has been around for centuries, across geographies and cultures. One major influence would be the vast sweep of African and Caribbean vocal and musical traditions, which form the basis of modern iterations of dub and spoken word…
2019 Book Awards: Winners Announcement
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2019 Book Awards Winners, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. The winners – who will each receive $2000 thanks to funding from Canada Council for the Arts , Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Canada Book Fund – will be announced…
