Poetry

  • Simon B Rhymin’

    Simon B Rhymin’

    I need to be confident, I need to be bold, I need to show the world…

  • Canadian Poetry

    Canadian Poetry

    April being Poetry Month has always felt fitting. Most of us would agree poetry is about…

  • Calling All Poets!

    Calling All Poets!

    April is Poetry Month and entries are now open for the CBC’s Poetry Prize contest. The…

  • CBC’s Must Reads

    CBC’s Must Reads

    February is Black History Month. CBCBooks has selected 25 notable books by Black Canadian authors to…

  • Love Poems to End All Love Poems

    Love Poems to End All Love Poems

    February is a weird month: short, generally bitterly cold, but also the time for Valentine’s Day.…

  • 13 Moons, 13 Reads

    13 Moons, 13 Reads

    13 Moons, 13 Reads is a new online book club featuring video interviews with Indigenous authors,…

  • The Winner Is…

    The Winner Is…

    In case you missed the announcement…Souvankham Thammavongsa won the $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short…

  • Lest We Forget

    Lest We Forget

    Learn more on poets.org about Guelph’s John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, teacher and poet who is…

  • The Poem Store

    The Poem Store

    Meet Afrose Fatima Ahmed, a traveling poet who, along with her trusty typewriter, has traveled across…

  • Embrace Your Inner Poet!

    Embrace Your Inner Poet!

    Clever! Anyone else been trying their hand at Book Spine Poetry? #youcouldbeapoetandyoudontevenknowit