To celebrate our amazing membership, the League is pleased to be hosting an online poetry open mic for members only during Member Appreciation Week! The post August 8, 2024 (Zoom): Member Open Mic appeared first on League of Canadian Poets ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "radio chatter" by Winston Lê. The post “radio chatter” by Winston Lê appeared first on League of Canadian Poets ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “The whole point is not to look at the moon” by Aimée Lavoie. The whole point is not to look at the moon By Aimée Lavoie But to look as the moon – down at everything awash in her light and to find yourself among the tiny blessed creatures held in her gaze among the spruce crowns the dancing moths the million serpentine ripples on the lake and below them the pickerel tipping in the deep to catch an eyeful of silver Copyright © Aimée Lavoie Aimée Lavoie (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, white settler living on ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Tha Sinn Uisge (we are water)” by Kaila Gallacher. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image. Tha Sinn Uisge (we are water) By Kaila Gallacher Copyright © Kaila Gallacher Kaila Gallacher is a chronically-ill, second-generation Scottish-Canadian who uses writing and art to explore the realities and possibilities of living in complex times. Her first chapbook, “mo nighean: the universe inside the comma”, was published by The Soapbox Press in 2022. Subscribe to Poetry Pause, or support Poetry Paus ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “tossing & turning” by Daniela. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image. tossing & turning By Daniela Elza Copyright © Daniela Elza From the broken boat (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2020). First published in Poetry Pause on October 5, 2020 Daniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada. Her latest poetry collections are the broken boat (2020) and slow erosions (2020)— a collaboration with poet Arlene Ang. Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award f ..read more

Spoken Word Saturday is a showcase of the amazing Spoken Word Poetry talent that can be found from coast to coast. You can find a playlist of all Spoken Word Saturday curations on the League’s Youtube channel! Johnny D. Trinh Johnny D. Trinh’s poem “Ferry Man” won the Vancouver Poetry House’s Vancouver Poetry Slam. Please note this poem contains explicit language. Watch on Youtube Johnny D Trinh is an interdisciplinary and spoken word artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Exploring the use of spoken word, music, video, social media, movement, theatre, and creative technology- Johnn ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Saptarishis” by Meena Chopra, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program. Saptarishis* By Meena Chopra The day unrolled as I sketched the Moon  with golden ink in the sunlight Stars scattered across the night sky unfurling the zodiac patterns The Great Bear, the Big Dipper, seven stars, seven sages wise words echoing through time collapse in a light-polluted sky Constellations sigh thousands of years trickled composing and computing narratives and legends versifying my days and nights The Little Dipper stirred ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Magnetic” by Patricia Pace. Magnetic By Patricia Pace You don’t need to tell a class of six year olds twice to line up for a lesson outdoors on a late Spring afternoon to learn the points of a compass. We each claimed our own small circle of paved sunlight, our thin, bare arms all set to be the wobbly needle. “North!” was the low school behind us. “South!” was the flagpole in front. “East!” was the wing of our classroom and “West!” was the lined parking lot. Obediently, I spun and pointed, spun and pointed, spun an ..read more

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Mall of the Sirens” by stephanie roberts. Mall of the Sirens By stephanie roberts willows tremble, in from the road, near water’s lip, where one would wish to be instead of here, drumming in line, humming Hendrix, holding for purchase things you don’t want, a doodad you’d realize doesn’t suit your frame if you took a beat to let yourself rise to your own amazement, which is beyond the atrium’s glass ceiling, beyond the tang of loneliness in the storm nestled heart level. this is what comes of taking dreams off the hor ..read more

Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series. Register for Cross-Pollinations July 31, 2024 | 3pm PT/6pm ET The Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Cross-Pollinations event will feature poet Melly Davidson and cold exposure therapist and herbalist Cat Catalyst for readings and a discussion on the theme of alternative care systems. Join us on July 31st for an exploration of alternative approaches to health and healing as means to foster community w ..read more