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NEWS FROM THE LCP Council and Jury Nominations for 2012–2013One of the main tasks at the annual LCP Poetry Festival and Conference is to elect the people who will serve on the National Council for the upcoming year. As it currently stands, we are looking to hear from people interested in the positions of Corporate Secretary (Executive Position), Atlantic representative, Manitoba representative, Education Committee Chair, or Education Committee Member. Members not attending the conference are still welcome to stand for election. Please contact Nominations Committee Chair, Patrick Pilarski ([email protected]), with a very brief statement of interest, and he will bring all names received to the attention of the nominating committee. Please note that only full members can stand for council, except for the position of Associate Members’ rep. Partus Films Created a Short Film for the League!For your viewing please: Harvest Moon by Craig Allen Conoley: http://partusfilms.com/industry/the-league-of-canadian-poets-2011/

LCP Poetry Festival & Conference 2012 in Saskatoon Plans for the League of Canadian Poets’ (LCP) 46th Annual Poetry Festival and Conference are well under way. This exciting three-day event is scheduled for June 15 -17, 2012, conveniently located in downtown Saskatoon at the Park Town Hotel (924 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3H5, http://www.parktownhotel.com/) The festivities include:Friday: Welcome lunch, Feminist Caucus Panel, Feminist Caucus Business Meeting & Open Reading, and the Joe Sherman Memorial New Members readingSaturday: Annual General Meeting (includes breakfast and lunch), an open mic, 2 panels, Feminist Caucus Reading, Associate Members Meet and Greet, and the Anne Szumigalski lecture, followed by dinner and award ceremonies.Sunday: Book Launch and Brunch *Registration forms and details of the book launch will be sent out to all registrants after May 1.For more information please visit: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs-2/lcp-annual-poetry-festival-and-conference

News from the Feminist Caucus, by Anne Burke, ChairNews from Heather Spears on her “Retrospective” Line by Line (50 Canadian Poets) and a memorial on Jay Macpherson (June 13, 1931 - March 21, 2012) with two poems from The Boatman which won the Governor General's Award in 1958). Room Magazine seeks submissions by May 30, 2012 on Women and “Labour” issues. Farewell to Other Voices. Congratulations to the finalists for the Pat Lowther Award 2012. As is our practice, the long list of entries is published here. Honour thy poets and their publishers! and MORE: Claudia’s BLOG, Magie’s sequel, and Carolyn’s Nellie McClung! For full report: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs-2/feminist-caucus

POETRY AND LITERARY NEWS Susan Musgrave Named the Newest Recipient of the Spirit Bear Award Internationally acclaimed Victoria and Haida Gwaii poet, Susan Musgrave, has been named the newest recipient of the Spirit Bear Award. This biennial tribute, founded in 2010 by the celebrated authors Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, with the support of the Victoria poetry community, recognizes the significance of a vital and enduring contribution to the poetry of the Pacific Northwest. Musgrave will be presented with a unique hand-carved box created by Sooke artist and carver, John Mugford, and a cheque for $1,000.
Both Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, as well as the 2010 award recipient, Wendy Morton, and Planet Earth Poetry host Yvonne Blomer, were part of the celebration.

Susan Musgrave has published more than 25 books over the past forty years, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, children’s writing, and seven anthologies in which she has served as editor. She has been nominated and received awards in all six categories of writing, including the BC Book Award and the CBC Literary Award in poetry. She has taught many hundreds of people the art of writing in online and personal workshops and retreats. Her contribution to the community of writers is incalculable.Her most recent voilume of poetry, Origami Dove, published in 2011 by McClelland & Stewart, was short-listed for last year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards.
Patrick Lane calls her one of Canada’s most remarkable and enduring writers. Her presence as a writer and teacher has changed this land of ours. Her books have named and placed us spiritually. Her artistic presence over the past forty years has helped create who we are. She is as important to us as Emily Carr. Her continuing legacy will long endure. Brian Brett Wins BC Award for Literary Excellence By Marsha Lederman, published Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012, The Globe and MailSaltspring Island-based writer Brian Brett has been named this year’s recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. The award recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the province. Brett has written 11 books of various genres, including his 2009 memoir Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, which won the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the B.C. Book Prize (Booksellers’ Choice). For full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/brian-brett-wins-bc-award-for-literary-excellence/article2413471/ The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2012 International and Canadian ShortlistScott Griffin, founder of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry and David Young, trustee, announced the International and Canadian shortlist for this year’s prize. Judges Heather McHugh (USA), David O’Meara (Canada) and Fiona Sampson (England) each read 481 books of poetry, from 37 countries, including 19 translations. The seven finalists – four International and three Canadian – will be invited to read in Toronto at Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto on Wednesday, June 6th. The seven finalists will each be awarded $10,000 for their participation in the Shortlist Readings. The winners, announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards evening on Thursday, June 7th, will each be awarded $65,000. International ShortlistNight • David Harsent (Faber and Faber)The Chameleon Couch • Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)November • Sean O’Brien (Picador)Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz • Joanna Trzeciak, translated from the Polish, written by Tadeusz Różewicz (W.W. Norton & Company) Canadian ShortlistMethodist Hatchet • Ken Babstock (House of Anansi Press)Killdeer • Phil Hall (BookThug) Forge • Jan Zwicky (Gaspereau Press) Each year, The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry presents an anthology of poems selected from the shortlisted books, published by House of Anansi Press. Royalties from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. Copies of submitted poetry books will be donated to the Slave Lake Public Library, Slave Lake, Alberta. Tickets for the Shortlist Readings to be held on Wednesday, June 6th, at Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto are available at http://performance.rcmusic.ca or by calling 416 408 0208. Atwood, Ondaatje and Cohen Throw Their Weight Behind Efforts to
Turn Al Purdy’s Cabin into a Writers’ RetreatBy Peter Kuitenbrouwer. Published Apr 17, 2012, The National PostWhen Al Purdy, the poet, and his wife Eurithe moved from Montreal to a slice of lakefront near Belleville, Ont., in 1957, Purdy described it as, “a backwater puddle of a lake,” adding, in his poem In Search of Owen Roblin, that he was “so far from anywhere even homing pigeons lost their way.” The Purdys paid $800 for the lot. Al Purdy died in 2000. Today Eurithe Purdy, 87 and living near Victoria, wants to sell. For full article: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/17/al-purdy/ The Nurturing Nature of Jay Macpherson By Sandra Martin, published Sunday, Apr. 29, 2012, The Globe and MailAfter winning the Governor-General’s Literary award for The Boatman in 1957, Jay Macpherson was asked to give a talk about Canadian poetry at Hart House at the University of Toronto. The invitation, which marked the first time the all-male Hart House student union had invited a woman to address its members, provoked such a fuss that women were barred from attending Macpherson’s talk. For full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/deaths/the-nurturing-nature-of-jay-macpherson/article2417334/ Strong International Short List Proof of Griffin Prize’s Growing Clout, Founder Says Published Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012, The Globe and MailGrowing recognition of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize as a major global award has led to one of the strongest international shortlists in the prize’s history, founder Scott Griffin said Tuesday. The $75,000 Griffin Poetry Prizes are awarded annually to one Canadian and one international poet. The four international finalists this year are published by major houses and have been nominated for, and won, some of the most prestigious poetry prizes in the world. For full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/strong-international-short-list-proof-of-griffin-prizes-growing-clout-founder-says/article2397082/ Poetry In Voice Congratulates 2012 Competition Winners, Announces National Expansion For 2013Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is proud to announce the winners of its second annual poetry recitation competition at Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre last night. A judging panel awarded Alexander Gagliano from Upper Canada College the top prize at the prestigious Poetry In Voice Grand Finals, hosted by Albert Schultz, founding artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre Company. For more info: http://www.poetryinvoice.com/news/press-releases/poetry-voice-congratulates-2012-competition-winners-announces-national-expansion
OPPORTUNITIES
Please note: The opportunities, contests or markets listed in this electronic newsletter are only an informational resource. We encourage all poets to thoroughly investigate all contests or markets before submitting their work. Call for Submissions: Leaf Press
Leaf Press is gathering poems for an anthology about the newly born, the almost born, the journey in-between. We are interested in thresholds and liminal states; in moments that transcend global cultures. We welcome poems from all the continents, asking only that they be accompanied by a translation to English. We may be able to help, in some instances, with translations. Please send your poem to: [email protected], subject line: Newborns or to: Leaf Press, Box 416, Lantzville, B.C. V0R 2H0. We will accept poems that have been previously published. Poets must provide this information (publication, publishing house and date) as well as permission for us to reprint. Leaf plans to publish the anthology in Spring 2014. Deadline: January 30, 2013. Anthology Editors: Ann Graham Walker and Ursula Vaira. Selected poets will be paid a fee of $50.00 CAD plus a copy of the book. Contest: Litlive.Ca’s First Annual Vidlit Video ContestIn the year since litlive.ca started publishing, we’ve noticed a truly bewildering number of spoken word and poetry videos being posted online. We're excited and encouraged by what we see: amazing animation, poetry done music-video style, experimental art videos, short narrative films, nature videos, weird effect videos, and many more. To help focus the public’s attention on some of this new work, we want to showcase the best spoken word / performance lit videos being made today. So we’ve initiated litlive.ca’s first annual VidLit video contest. Let the games begin! We’re asking spoken word artists of all stripes, poets, dub poets, performance poets, sound poets and their videographers to send us their recent work. If you’ve previously submitted your videos to other contests, or to film and video festivals in Canada and abroad, your work is still considered eligible for VidLit. VidLit is sponsored by Vidéographe, a center of multimedia creation for the independent producer. Vidéographe offers cross-platform facilities for the design, creation and distribution of new original work. Visit the Vitèque at www.vitheque.com to view Vidéographe’s showcase of independent productions. For more details and contest guidelines, click: http://www.litlive.ca/story/429. Deadline: Entries must be received at litlive.ca no later than May 1, 2012. Contest: The 2013 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest
Quattro Books will publish the two best novella manuscripts by a Canadian author as part of their 2013 publishing list. The manuscript should be completed, neatly typed, and not less than 20,000 words or more than 40,000 words. Note the number of words on the cover. Your name may appear in the manuscript’s header or footer. Please note that Quattro publishes literary fiction, not genre fiction (science fiction or romances). See www.quattrobooks.ca. Send your manuscript before June 1, 2012, along with a $15 reader’s fee and your email address, to: Quattro Books Inc., CSI second floor, 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2R4 Call for Entries: Victoria Book Prize AwardsAuthors and illustrators from Greater Victoria are invited to participate in the Victoria Book Prize Society’s annual awards consisting of the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize. In its ninth year, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize honours members of the literary community. The $5,000 prize is awarded to a local author for the best book published in the preceding year in the categories of poetry, non-fiction and fiction. Established in 2004, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize is a partnership between the City of Victoria and Brian Butler of Butler Brothers Supplies. The 2012 gala celebrating local writers and illustrators will take place, Wednesday, October 17th at the Union Club. Books must have been published between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012 to be considered. Submissions can be made to the Victoria Book Prize Society, c/o Target Storage Ltd., #15 – 747 Princess Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 1K5 between April 1 and May 31, 2012. Submissions may be delivered in person from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. For awards applications and submission guidelines, visit www.victoriabookprizes.ca Call for submissions: 2012 bpNichol Chapbook AwardA $2000 prize will be awarded for the poetry chapbook judged to be the best submitted. Interested authors or publishers should submit three copies of a chapbook of poetry in English published in Canada in 2011. Chapbooks should be no less than 10 pages and no more than 48 pages. Submissions should include a brief C.V. of the author, plus address, telephone number, and email address. Send to: Meet the Presses / bpNichol Chapbook Award, PO Box 26, Station P, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S6. The closing date for submissions to the 2012 competition is May 31, 2012. Please email Meet The Presses for more information: [email protected]. Contest: The Saving BannisterThe Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors Association is holding its 27th Annual Poetry Anthology contest for residents of Ontario. Deadline for entries is May 31, 2012. First Prize-$200 Second Prize-$100 Third Prize-$50. For details visit http://www.canauthorsniagara.org/Poetry_Contest.html. Call for Entries: 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
For the sixth time, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is calling for entries to find the best poetry film. Entries may be short films made on the basis of poems. Prizes will be awarded in the Competition to a total value of EUR 10,000. A Programme Commission will nominate the films for the competition and select the films for the various programme categories from among the entries, and a Jury with an international line-up will name the winners. The prizes to be awarded will be the ZEBRA Prize for the Best Poetry Film, donated by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, the Goethe Film Prize, donated by the Goethe Institute, the Ritter Sport Film Prize, donated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG and the Audience Prize awarded by the jury of radioeins listeners. Children and young people will be able to award their very own prize: the ZEBRINO Prize for the Best Film for Children and Young People will be awarded by a jury of children to honour the best poetry film for eight-to-twelve-year-olds. Closing date for entries for all the competitions is 2 May 2012 (Conditions of Entry in full at www.zebra-award.org). The Competition has a few new features this time as well. For the first time, the ZEBRA Film Festival will also be awarding prizes for poetry films in the categories Best Debut Film, Best Film for Tolerance and Best Poetry Performance on Film.
The 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival will take place in the Babylon cinema in Berlin from 18 to 21 October 2012. It is a project of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in cooperation with interfilm Berlin and with the kind support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the German Literature Fund, the Goethe Institute and Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG. It takes place as part of the poesiefestival berlin. 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, 18-21 October 2012, Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin. Closing date for entries: 02 May 2012. Contest: 2012 Quebec Writing Competition The 2012 Quebec Writing Competition has been launched, now with a $1500 first prize, publication of winner on CBC's national Canada Reads web site, and online submissions! For details and access to online submission form, see cbc.ca/qwc.

Contest: Topic: Refugees and Human RightsEligibility: This contest is open to all aspiring poets who are students in Grades 4-12 and attending schools in the Greater Toronto Area. Poems will be written in English with a maximum of 24 lines. Awards will be given based on the following three grade categories for a total of three first prizes: Group I grades 4-5-6, Group II grades 7-8, Group III grades 9-10-11-12. Current employees or relatives of UNHCR Canada or COSTI Immigrant Services are not eligible to enter the contest. Prizes: Three First Prizes of $200 each. Three Second and Third Prizes will receive $100 each. Decisions: Judges will be members of the UNHCR Toronto Office, COSTI Immigrant Services, others to be announced. Entries will be judged on the basis of originality, creative imagination, characterization, artistic quality, adherence to the topic, and rules established for the contest. All decisions of the judges are final. Rights: All poems remain the property of the artist. By submitting a poem for this contest, the artist grants permission to UNHCR Canada and COSTI Immigrant Services to publish the poem, profile contest participants, and use submitted materials in any manner related to refugee and human rights promotion, including for World Refugee Day. UNHCR Canada and COSTI Immigrant Services are under no obligation to publish any contest entries. The artist is under no obligation to purchase a copy of the publication in which the poem may appear. Winners will be invited to an open ceremony for prize awards and photo/interview opportunity, children younger than 16 will need to be accompanied by a responsible adult that can authorize and sign on their behalf. For further information, contact: Mary Pam Vincer at [email protected] or 416-534-8437. Poetry Contest, 1710 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON M6E 3P2. Contest deadline: May 16, 2012. Program: AFCOOP Introduces a New Program for Poets and FilmmakersHalifax April 19th, New this year, the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) is partnering with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia to present A Certain Openness: the filming of poetry a collaborative filmmaking program designed to foster relationships between Nova Scotia’s filmmaking and writing communities. Six poets will be paired with six filmmakers to collaborate and create filmed interpretations of existing poetry. The result will be six short works of cinépoetry that will be can be used to showcase Nova Scotia’s talented filmmakers and writers across the country.

“Poetry can be intimidating for readers and this collaboration will create a threshold, a way into poems that is hospitable as well as visually invigorating,” says Sue Goyette from the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. “The program will give both the writing and filmmaking communities the opportunity to connect as they learn, together, the rewarding art of collaboration.”

Through the program, participants will receive film training as well as mentorship from lead instructors poet Tanya Davis, and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. The program will supply filmmaking gear, supplies and materials and a small cash budget for teams to spend on their productions.

“Collaboration with filmmakers has expanded my artistic practice in a powerful way, opening up a whole new world of work and opportunity for me,” says Tanya Davis, who is also Halifax’s Poet Laureate.

Nova Scotia has seen a recent flourishing of the popularity of cinépoetry due in part to filmmaker Andrea Dorfman and her collaboration with poet Tanya Davis. Their video, How to Be Alone, went viral on YouTube, and has received over 3 million views since it was uploaded in 2010. It has also toured the world, screening at multiple film festivals including Toronto Short Film Fest, St John’s Women’s Film Fest, Atlantic Film Festival and the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

Inspired by the success of this local phenomenon, A Certain Openness: the filming of poetry, invites filmmakers and poets who have not had the opportunity to work together before to open themselves creatively to the possibility of combining two art forms into one completed piece. Poets and filmmakers may apply to the program either as a team or on their own. Deadline for applications is May 14th 5pm.

What is Cinépoetry? Cinépoetry comes in many forms – from filmed spoken-word performances, to visual interpretations that may or may not contain the actual text of the poem. Films can include a combination of literal and abstract renderings of the text they are based on. By combining the two art forms of film and poetry, a new meaning is created, and a new medium is discovered!

Timeline: Workshops will commence in June and take place over a series of 3 weekends, (exact dates to be determined). Individual film shoots will take place in July and August. Editing and post-production will take place in September working towards a premier screening in mid October 2012. In addition to scheduled workshops, participants can expect to spend a considerable amount of time working with each other to collaborate, design their shooting plans, shoot their film, record sound and edit the piece.

Applying: Please submit one unbound (no staples) copy of your complete application package by mail to or in person by May 14th 2012 to: The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, 5663 Cornwallis Street Suite 101, Halifax NS B3K 1B6. Application forms and guidelines can be found online at: www.afcoop.ca Workshop: Sage Hill Writing has Extended the DeadlineSage Hill Writing has extended the deadline for electronic applications until May 11, 2012. John Vaillant’s extraordinary book The Tiger was part of the 2012 CBC Canada Reads will lead the non-fiction workshop. Spider Robinson is a master of the genre and a fierce writer; we are so fortunate to have him teach with us this summer. Lawrence Hill is a best selling author all around the world, and he’s coming: ‘nuff said. Ken Babstock has been nominated and won so many awards it’s humbling to have him here. John Gould and Kimmy Beach are the excellent tag-team for the Introduction to Poetry & Fiction. Helen Humphreys is one of this county’s strongest writers who has helped many writers, both with her writing and her instruction. Don’t be shy. Applications may be sent to [email protected]. EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, COURSES, FESTIVALS & READINGS Signature Editions Poetry Book Launch, Toronto, ON
The Shape of a Throat by Sheila Stewart, Once Houses Could Fly by Rosemary Clewes and small flames by Dina E. Cox on Sunday, May 6th, 2 p.m. at the Magpie Taproom, 831 Dundas Street West, Toronto (south side of Dundas, 3 blocks west of Bathurst between Euclid and Palmerson). Just released poetry collection The Shape of a Throat: http://signature-editions.com/index.php/books/single_title/the_shape_of_a_throatFirst poetry collection A Hat to Stop a Train: http://wolsakandwynn.ca/authors/56 Vancouver Public Library presents B.C. Book Prizes Reading, Vancouver, BCOn Friday, May 11 the Vancouver Public Library presents B.C. Book Prizes, a reading by BC Book Prize poetry finalists. Join us as 4 of the 5 finalists for the 2012 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize read from their
nominated works. The evening will be hosted by Evelyn Lau, Vancouver's Poet Laureate. At 7:00 pm in the Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC. Admission is Free. Seating is limited. Flanker Press Will Launch Nellie P. Strowbridge's Latest Work, St.John’s , NLFlanker Press will launch Nellie P. Strowbridge's latest work Maiden from the Sea May 10th, 7-9pm, Chapters, Kenmount Road, St. John's, NL, and May 19th 2-4pm at DJY Financial. Deer Lake, NL.

Workshop: Kung Fu for Poets with Kim Goldberg, Nanaimo, BCDate: Saturday, May 12, 2012 Time: 10:00 am – Noon Place: Nanaimo <st1:Pla
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http://annapoetry.com

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NEWS FROM THE LCP Council and Jury Nominations for 2012–2013One of the main tasks at the annual LCP Poetry Festival and Conference is to elect the people who will serve on the National Council for the upcoming year. As it currently stands, we are looking to hear from people interested in the positions of Corporate Secretary (Executive Position), Atlantic representative, Manitoba representative, Education Committee Chair, or Education Committee Member. Members not attending the conference are still welcome to stand for election. Please contact Nominations Committee Chair, Patrick Pilarski ([email protected]), with a very brief statement of interest, and he will bring all names received to the attention of the nominating committee. Please note that only full members can stand for council, except for the position of Associate Members’ rep. Partus Films Created a Short Film for the League!For your viewing please: Harvest Moon by Craig Allen Conoley: http://partusfilms.com/industry/the-league-of-canadian-poets-2011/

LCP Poetry Festival & Conference 2012 in Saskatoon Plans for the League of Canadian Poets’ (LCP) 46th Annual Poetry Festival and Conference are well under way. This exciting three-day event is scheduled for June 15 -17, 2012, conveniently located in downtown Saskatoon at the Park Town Hotel (924 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3H5, http://www.parktownhotel.com/) The festivities include:Friday: Welcome lunch, Feminist Caucus Panel, Feminist Caucus Business Meeting & Open Reading, and the Joe Sherman Memorial New Members readingSaturday: Annual General Meeting (includes breakfast and lunch), an open mic, 2 panels, Feminist Caucus Reading, Associate Members Meet and Greet, and the Anne Szumigalski lecture, followed by dinner and award ceremonies.Sunday: Book Launch and Brunch *Registration forms and details of the book launch will be sent out to all registrants after May 1.For more information please visit: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs-2/lcp-annual-poetry-festival-and-conference

News from the Feminist Caucus, by Anne Burke, ChairNews from Heather Spears on her “Retrospective” Line by Line (50 Canadian Poets) and a memorial on Jay Macpherson (June 13, 1931 - March 21, 2012) with two poems from The Boatman which won the Governor General's Award in 1958). Room Magazine seeks submissions by May 30, 2012 on Women and “Labour” issues. Farewell to Other Voices. Congratulations to the finalists for the Pat Lowther Award 2012. As is our practice, the long list of entries is published here. Honour thy poets and their publishers! and MORE: Claudia’s BLOG, Magie’s sequel, and Carolyn’s Nellie McClung! For full report: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs-2/feminist-caucus

POETRY AND LITERARY NEWS Susan Musgrave Named the Newest Recipient of the Spirit Bear Award Internationally acclaimed Victoria and Haida Gwaii poet, Susan Musgrave, has been named the newest recipient of the Spirit Bear Award. This biennial tribute, founded in 2010 by the celebrated authors Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, with the support of the Victoria poetry community, recognizes the significance of a vital and enduring contribution to the poetry of the Pacific Northwest. Musgrave will be presented with a unique hand-carved box created by Sooke artist and carver, John Mugford, and a cheque for $1,000.
Both Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier, as well as the 2010 award recipient, Wendy Morton, and Planet Earth Poetry host Yvonne Blomer, were part of the celebration.

Susan Musgrave has published more than 25 books over the past forty years, including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, personal essay, children’s writing, and seven anthologies in which she has served as editor. She has been nominated and received awards in all six categories of writing, including the BC Book Award and the CBC Literary Award in poetry. She has taught many hundreds of people the art of writing in online and personal workshops and retreats. Her contribution to the community of writers is incalculable.Her most recent voilume of poetry, Origami Dove, published in 2011 by McClelland & Stewart, was short-listed for last year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards.
Patrick Lane calls her one of Canada’s most remarkable and enduring writers. Her presence as a writer and teacher has changed this land of ours. Her books have named and placed us spiritually. Her artistic presence over the past forty years has helped create who we are. She is as important to us as Emily Carr. Her continuing legacy will long endure. Brian Brett Wins BC Award for Literary Excellence By Marsha Lederman, published Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012, The Globe and MailSaltspring Island-based writer Brian Brett has been named this year’s recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. The award recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the province. Brett has written 11 books of various genres, including his 2009 memoir Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, which won the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the B.C. Book Prize (Booksellers’ Choice). For full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/brian-brett-wins-bc-award-for-literary-excellence/article2413471/ The Griffin Poetry Prize Announces the 2012 International and Canadian ShortlistScott Griffin, founder of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry and David Young, trustee, announced the International and Canadian shortlist for this year’s prize. Judges Heather McHugh (USA), David O’Meara (Canada) and Fiona Sampson (England) each read 481 books of poetry, from 37 countries, including 19 translations. The seven finalists – four International and three Canadian – will be invited to read in Toronto at Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto on Wednesday, June 6th. The seven finalists will each be awarded $10,000 for their participation in the Shortlist Readings. The winners, announced at the Griffin Poetry Prize Awards evening on Thursday, June 7th, will each be awarded $65,000. International ShortlistNight • David Harsent (Faber and Faber)The Chameleon Couch • Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)November • Sean O’Brien (Picador)Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz • Joanna Trzeciak, translated from the Polish, written by Tadeusz Różewicz (W.W. Norton & Company) Canadian ShortlistMethodist Hatchet • Ken Babstock (House of Anansi Press)Killdeer • Phil Hall (BookThug) Forge • Jan Zwicky (Gaspereau Press) Each year, The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry presents an anthology of poems selected from the shortlisted books, published by House of Anansi Press. Royalties from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. Copies of submitted poetry books will be donated to the Slave Lake Public Library, Slave Lake, Alberta. Tickets for the Shortlist Readings to be held on Wednesday, June 6th, at Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto are available at http://performance.rcmusic.ca or by calling 416 408 0208. Atwood, Ondaatje and Cohen Throw Their Weight Behind Efforts to
Turn Al Purdy’s Cabin into a Writers’ RetreatBy Peter Kuitenbrouwer. Published Apr 17, 2012, The National PostWhen Al Purdy, the poet, and his wife Eurithe moved from Montreal to a slice of lakefront near Belleville, Ont., in 1957, Purdy described it as, “a backwater puddle of a lake,” adding, in his poem In Search of Owen Roblin, that he was “so far from anywhere even homing pigeons lost their way.” The Purdys paid $800 for the lot. Al Purdy died in 2000. Today Eurithe Purdy, 87 and living near Victoria, wants to sell. For full article: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/17/al-purdy/ The Nurturing Nature of Jay Macpherson By Sandra Martin, published Sunday, Apr. 29, 2012, The Globe and MailAfter winning the Governor-General’s Literary award for The Boatman in 1957, Jay Macpherson was asked to give a talk about Canadian poetry at Hart House at the University of Toronto. The invitation, which marked the first time the all-male Hart House student union had invited a woman to address its members, provoked such a fuss that women were barred from attending Macpherson’s talk. For full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/deaths/the-nurturing-nature-of-jay-macpherson/article2417334/ Strong International Short List Proof of Griffin Prize’s Growing Clout, Founder Says Published Tuesday, Apr. 10, 2012, The Globe and MailGrowing recognition of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize as a major global award has led to one of the strongest international shortlists in the prize’s history, founder Scott Griffin said Tuesday. The $75,000 Griffin Poetry Prizes are awarded annually to one Canadian and one international poet. The four international finalists this year are published by major houses and have been nominated for, and won, some of the most prestigious poetry prizes in the world. For full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/strong-international-short-list-proof-of-griffin-prizes-growing-clout-founder-says/article2397082/ Poetry In Voice Congratulates 2012 Competition Winners, Announces National Expansion For 2013Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is proud to announce the winners of its second annual poetry recitation competition at Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre last night. A judging panel awarded Alexander Gagliano from Upper Canada College the top prize at the prestigious Poetry In Voice Grand Finals, hosted by Albert Schultz, founding artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre Company. For more info: http://www.poetryinvoice.com/news/press-releases/poetry-voice-congratulates-2012-competition-winners-announces-national-expansion
OPPORTUNITIES
Please note: The opportunities, contests or markets listed in this electronic newsletter are only an informational resource. We encourage all poets to thoroughly investigate all contests or markets before submitting their work. Call for Submissions: Leaf Press
Leaf Press is gathering poems for an anthology about the newly born, the almost born, the journey in-between. We are interested in thresholds and liminal states; in moments that transcend global cultures. We welcome poems from all the continents, asking only that they be accompanied by a translation to English. We may be able to help, in some instances, with translations. Please send your poem to: [email protected], subject line: Newborns or to: Leaf Press, Box 416, Lantzville, B.C. V0R 2H0. We will accept poems that have been previously published. Poets must provide this information (publication, publishing house and date) as well as permission for us to reprint. Leaf plans to publish the anthology in Spring 2014. Deadline: January 30, 2013. Anthology Editors: Ann Graham Walker and Ursula Vaira. Selected poets will be paid a fee of $50.00 CAD plus a copy of the book. Contest: Litlive.Ca’s First Annual Vidlit Video ContestIn the year since litlive.ca started publishing, we’ve noticed a truly bewildering number of spoken word and poetry videos being posted online. We're excited and encouraged by what we see: amazing animation, poetry done music-video style, experimental art videos, short narrative films, nature videos, weird effect videos, and many more. To help focus the public’s attention on some of this new work, we want to showcase the best spoken word / performance lit videos being made today. So we’ve initiated litlive.ca’s first annual VidLit video contest. Let the games begin! We’re asking spoken word artists of all stripes, poets, dub poets, performance poets, sound poets and their videographers to send us their recent work. If you’ve previously submitted your videos to other contests, or to film and video festivals in Canada and abroad, your work is still considered eligible for VidLit. VidLit is sponsored by Vidéographe, a center of multimedia creation for the independent producer. Vidéographe offers cross-platform facilities for the design, creation and distribution of new original work. Visit the Vitèque at www.vitheque.com to view Vidéographe’s showcase of independent productions. For more details and contest guidelines, click: http://www.litlive.ca/story/429. Deadline: Entries must be received at litlive.ca no later than May 1, 2012. Contest: The 2013 Ken Klonsky Novella Contest
Quattro Books will publish the two best novella manuscripts by a Canadian author as part of their 2013 publishing list. The manuscript should be completed, neatly typed, and not less than 20,000 words or more than 40,000 words. Note the number of words on the cover. Your name may appear in the manuscript’s header or footer. Please note that Quattro publishes literary fiction, not genre fiction (science fiction or romances). See www.quattrobooks.ca. Send your manuscript before June 1, 2012, along with a $15 reader’s fee and your email address, to: Quattro Books Inc., CSI second floor, 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2R4 Call for Entries: Victoria Book Prize AwardsAuthors and illustrators from Greater Victoria are invited to participate in the Victoria Book Prize Society’s annual awards consisting of the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize and the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize. In its ninth year, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize honours members of the literary community. The $5,000 prize is awarded to a local author for the best book published in the preceding year in the categories of poetry, non-fiction and fiction. Established in 2004, the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize is a partnership between the City of Victoria and Brian Butler of Butler Brothers Supplies. The 2012 gala celebrating local writers and illustrators will take place, Wednesday, October 17th at the Union Club. Books must have been published between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012 to be considered. Submissions can be made to the Victoria Book Prize Society, c/o Target Storage Ltd., #15 – 747 Princess Avenue, Victoria, BC V8T 1K5 between April 1 and May 31, 2012. Submissions may be delivered in person from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. For awards applications and submission guidelines, visit www.victoriabookprizes.ca Call for submissions: 2012 bpNichol Chapbook AwardA $2000 prize will be awarded for the poetry chapbook judged to be the best submitted. Interested authors or publishers should submit three copies of a chapbook of poetry in English published in Canada in 2011. Chapbooks should be no less than 10 pages and no more than 48 pages. Submissions should include a brief C.V. of the author, plus address, telephone number, and email address. Send to: Meet the Presses / bpNichol Chapbook Award, PO Box 26, Station P, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S6. The closing date for submissions to the 2012 competition is May 31, 2012. Please email Meet The Presses for more information: [email protected]. Contest: The Saving BannisterThe Niagara Branch of the Canadian Authors Association is holding its 27th Annual Poetry Anthology contest for residents of Ontario. Deadline for entries is May 31, 2012. First Prize-$200 Second Prize-$100 Third Prize-$50. For details visit http://www.canauthorsniagara.org/Poetry_Contest.html. Call for Entries: 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
For the sixth time, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is calling for entries to find the best poetry film. Entries may be short films made on the basis of poems. Prizes will be awarded in the Competition to a total value of EUR 10,000. A Programme Commission will nominate the films for the competition and select the films for the various programme categories from among the entries, and a Jury with an international line-up will name the winners. The prizes to be awarded will be the ZEBRA Prize for the Best Poetry Film, donated by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, the Goethe Film Prize, donated by the Goethe Institute, the Ritter Sport Film Prize, donated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG and the Audience Prize awarded by the jury of radioeins listeners. Children and young people will be able to award their very own prize: the ZEBRINO Prize for the Best Film for Children and Young People will be awarded by a jury of children to honour the best poetry film for eight-to-twelve-year-olds. Closing date for entries for all the competitions is 2 May 2012 (Conditions of Entry in full at www.zebra-award.org). The Competition has a few new features this time as well. For the first time, the ZEBRA Film Festival will also be awarding prizes for poetry films in the categories Best Debut Film, Best Film for Tolerance and Best Poetry Performance on Film.
The 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival will take place in the Babylon cinema in Berlin from 18 to 21 October 2012. It is a project of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in cooperation with interfilm Berlin and with the kind support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, the German Literature Fund, the Goethe Institute and Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG. It takes place as part of the poesiefestival berlin. 6th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, 18-21 October 2012, Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin. Closing date for entries: 02 May 2012. Contest: 2012 Quebec Writing Competition The 2012 Quebec Writing Competition has been launched, now with a $1500 first prize, publication of winner on CBC's national Canada Reads web site, and online submissions! For details and access to online submission form, see cbc.ca/qwc.

Contest: Topic: Refugees and Human RightsEligibility: This contest is open to all aspiring poets who are students in Grades 4-12 and attending schools in the Greater Toronto Area. Poems will be written in English with a maximum of 24 lines. Awards will be given based on the following three grade categories for a total of three first prizes: Group I grades 4-5-6, Group II grades 7-8, Group III grades 9-10-11-12. Current employees or relatives of UNHCR Canada or COSTI Immigrant Services are not eligible to enter the contest. Prizes: Three First Prizes of $200 each. Three Second and Third Prizes will receive $100 each. Decisions: Judges will be members of the UNHCR Toronto Office, COSTI Immigrant Services, others to be announced. Entries will be judged on the basis of originality, creative imagination, characterization, artistic quality, adherence to the topic, and rules established for the contest. All decisions of the judges are final. Rights: All poems remain the property of the artist. By submitting a poem for this contest, the artist grants permission to UNHCR Canada and COSTI Immigrant Services to publish the poem, profile contest participants, and use submitted materials in any manner related to refugee and human rights promotion, including for World Refugee Day. UNHCR Canada and COSTI Immigrant Services are under no obligation to publish any contest entries. The artist is under no obligation to purchase a copy of the publication in which the poem may appear. Winners will be invited to an open ceremony for prize awards and photo/interview opportunity, children younger than 16 will need to be accompanied by a responsible adult that can authorize and sign on their behalf. For further information, contact: Mary Pam Vincer at [email protected] or 416-534-8437. Poetry Contest, 1710 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON M6E 3P2. Contest deadline: May 16, 2012. Program: AFCOOP Introduces a New Program for Poets and FilmmakersHalifax April 19th, New this year, the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP) is partnering with the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia to present A Certain Openness: the filming of poetry a collaborative filmmaking program designed to foster relationships between Nova Scotia’s filmmaking and writing communities. Six poets will be paired with six filmmakers to collaborate and create filmed interpretations of existing poetry. The result will be six short works of cinépoetry that will be can be used to showcase Nova Scotia’s talented filmmakers and writers across the country.

“Poetry can be intimidating for readers and this collaboration will create a threshold, a way into poems that is hospitable as well as visually invigorating,” says Sue Goyette from the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. “The program will give both the writing and filmmaking communities the opportunity to connect as they learn, together, the rewarding art of collaboration.”

Through the program, participants will receive film training as well as mentorship from lead instructors poet Tanya Davis, and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. The program will supply filmmaking gear, supplies and materials and a small cash budget for teams to spend on their productions.

“Collaboration with filmmakers has expanded my artistic practice in a powerful way, opening up a whole new world of work and opportunity for me,” says Tanya Davis, who is also Halifax’s Poet Laureate.

Nova Scotia has seen a recent flourishing of the popularity of cinépoetry due in part to filmmaker Andrea Dorfman and her collaboration with poet Tanya Davis. Their video, How to Be Alone, went viral on YouTube, and has received over 3 million views since it was uploaded in 2010. It has also toured the world, screening at multiple film festivals including Toronto Short Film Fest, St John’s Women’s Film Fest, Atlantic Film Festival and the Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.

Inspired by the success of this local phenomenon, A Certain Openness: the filming of poetry, invites filmmakers and poets who have not had the opportunity to work together before to open themselves creatively to the possibility of combining two art forms into one completed piece. Poets and filmmakers may apply to the program either as a team or on their own. Deadline for applications is May 14th 5pm.

What is Cinépoetry? Cinépoetry comes in many forms – from filmed spoken-word performances, to visual interpretations that may or may not contain the actual text of the poem. Films can include a combination of literal and abstract renderings of the text they are based on. By combining the two art forms of film and poetry, a new meaning is created, and a new medium is discovered!

Timeline: Workshops will commence in June and take place over a series of 3 weekends, (exact dates to be determined). Individual film shoots will take place in July and August. Editing and post-production will take place in September working towards a premier screening in mid October 2012. In addition to scheduled workshops, participants can expect to spend a considerable amount of time working with each other to collaborate, design their shooting plans, shoot their film, record sound and edit the piece.

Applying: Please submit one unbound (no staples) copy of your complete application package by mail to or in person by May 14th 2012 to: The Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative, 5663 Cornwallis Street Suite 101, Halifax NS B3K 1B6. Application forms and guidelines can be found online at: www.afcoop.ca Workshop: Sage Hill Writing has Extended the DeadlineSage Hill Writing has extended the deadline for electronic applications until May 11, 2012. John Vaillant’s extraordinary book The Tiger was part of the 2012 CBC Canada Reads will lead the non-fiction workshop. Spider Robinson is a master of the genre and a fierce writer; we are so fortunate to have him teach with us this summer. Lawrence Hill is a best selling author all around the world, and he’s coming: ‘nuff said. Ken Babstock has been nominated and won so many awards it’s humbling to have him here. John Gould and Kimmy Beach are the excellent tag-team for the Introduction to Poetry & Fiction. Helen Humphreys is one of this county’s strongest writers who has helped many writers, both with her writing and her instruction. Don’t be shy. Applications may be sent to [email protected]. EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, COURSES, FESTIVALS & READINGS Signature Editions Poetry Book Launch, Toronto, ON
The Shape of a Throat by Sheila Stewart, Once Houses Could Fly by Rosemary Clewes and small flames by Dina E. Cox on Sunday, May 6th, 2 p.m. at the Magpie Taproom, 831 Dundas Street West, Toronto (south side of Dundas, 3 blocks west of Bathurst between Euclid and Palmerson). Just released poetry collection The Shape of a Throat: http://signature-editions.com/index.php/books/single_title/the_shape_of_a_throatFirst poetry collection A Hat to Stop a Train: http://wolsakandwynn.ca/authors/56 Vancouver Public Library presents B.C. Book Prizes Reading, Vancouver, BCOn Friday, May 11 the Vancouver Public Library presents B.C. Book Prizes, a reading by BC Book Prize poetry finalists. Join us as 4 of the 5 finalists for the 2012 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize read from their
nominated works. The evening will be hosted by Evelyn Lau, Vancouver's Poet Laureate. At 7:00 pm in the Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central Library, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC. Admission is Free. Seating is limited. Flanker Press Will Launch Nellie P. Strowbridge's Latest Work, St.John’s , NLFlanker Press will launch Nellie P. Strowbridge's latest work Maiden from the Sea May 10th, 7-9pm, Chapters, Kenmount Road, St. John's, NL, and May 19th 2-4pm at DJY Financial. Deer Lake, NL.

Workshop: Kung Fu for Poets with Kim Goldberg, Nanaimo, BCDate: Saturday, May 12, 2012 Time: 10:00 am – Noon Place: Nanaimo <st1:Pla
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