A few things, poetry-wise…penny-wise, Arc is looking for $10,000 in donations to put a poetry youth issue of the magazine in classrooms across the country. They’re about $2,500 in so far. If you want to give words towards poetry, you can throw some to Sachiko Murakami who is crowd-sourcing stories and fragments from airports for […]
Category Archives: PSA, Poetry
Descant
On Wednesday, February 20, Descant will be celebrating the memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto, by announcing the winner of the 2013 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. The finalists are (in no particular order): Richard Scarsbrook: “Fortune” Laura Lamont: “Night Vision” […]
Donation Perks: Poems In the Hand of the Poet
VerseFest’s Indiegogo funding drive is 2/5 of the way to the goal. It has added a few more items, beyond pins, t-shirts, feel-good-feelings, festival passes and tax receipts…want a framed, handwritten poem by Karen Solie? By Phil Hall? Or how about Philip Levine? If you like broadsheets and limited print run, this may be your […]
Tree Survey
Should you happen to have attended a Tree Seed Workshop since 2009, would you mind sharing your thoughts on it? We’re looking for feedback on how we’ve been doing. Please fill in the 10-question survey. It should take no more than 5 minutes.