Eighteen poets gather at the Quebec-Vermont border on Thanksgiving weekend for literary festival of community
"We want to reassert something truer – the long-standing spirit of trust between our peoples going back almost 200 years."
Poet Anne Carson becomes the second Canadian this century to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
"Anne Carson has raised the profile of poetry to its rightful place: to the pinnacle of literature."
“We need our prize back”: Canadian poets feel buoyed by the reinstatement of the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize
"The opportunity that a prize like this provides is not the opportunity to compete. It is the opportunity to be seen."
Ange Mlinko and Kevin Young make Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist; founder Scott Griffin to convene town hall to address Canadian poets’ concerns
Griffin has said that he wants to listen to the poetry community in this country with a open mind.
A boy’s life: Nova Scotia poet Graeme Bezanson’s debut collection examines the quandary of youthful masculinity
The poems in Ultra Blue could reasonably be read as one long poem broken down into three parts.
Elbows up? Eight books from Americans and no Canadians on 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist
Griffin's sunny confidence about Canadians' ability to "sit with the best internationally" is being sorely tested.
As Ottawa’s VERSeFest marks its sixteenth year, rob mclennan reflects on its importance
VERSeFest arose out of a push to get the city's various poetry reading series – be they slam, stage, or page focused – to collaborate on a single event.
Calgary student prevented from performing Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang poem at a local Poetry in Voice recitation competition
The choice of poem is "an act of protest" against the climate of misogynistic abuse that teens and adult women are subject to on a daily basis.
Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
The march of time: In her third collection of poetry, katherena vermette considers our place as descendants and future ancestors
The combined slipperiness and multifaceted aspect of language is all over this volume.