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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…
NPM19: Announcing a new award from the League of Canadian Poets!
To close out National Poetry Month 2019, the League is very excited to announce something big that we’re looking forward to launching this year… a brand new $10,000 poetry prize! We couldn’t think of a better way to say farewell to #NPM19 than to share something for rising talents in Canadian poetry to look forward…
2019 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner: Andrea Thompson
and the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award goes to… Andrea Thompson Andrea Thompson is a poet, novelist, educator and editor at Brick Books. Her spoken word album One was nominated for a Canadian Urban Music Award, her album Soulorations helped earn her a Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for Excellence, and she is the recipient of the 2021 Leon E.…
