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Poetry Month 2025

National Poetry Month 2025: Tributaries

This National Poetry Month on All Lit Up, Tributaries brings together 23 poets in a month-long celebration of verse, connection, and inspiration. Each day, a featured poet will share their own work alongside a recommendationโ€”highlighting the words that have shaped them, challenged them, or deepened their love for the form. Like the many streams that feed a river, these voices converge in a space of discovery, inviting you to explore the poetry that moves us. Whether youโ€™re a lifelong reader of poetry or just beginning to wade in, Tributaries offers a place to listen, reflect, and celebrate the power of language. Join us as we follow these currents, one poem at a time.

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Two Poems: The Door at the End of Everything

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Field Trip: Poetry Night at The Artists’ House

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Two Poems: All Wrong Horses on Fire That Go Away in the Rain

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2025 Al & Eurithe Poetry Prize Finalists

The cover of Stephanie Bolster's Long Exposure features a photo of a decrepit room with peeling wall paint, dirty curtains, and a rotting shoe rack hanging on a door. The cover is superimposed on a background of a long exposure photograph.

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Poetry in Motion: Stephanie Bolster + Long Exposure

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Poetry in Motion: James Yรฉkรบ + A Phial of Passing Memories

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Poetry in Motion: Joanna Streetly + All of Us Hidden

2025 League of Canadian Poets Longlist

Farm: Lot 23

By (author): Tonya Lailey

Tonya Laileyโ€™s Farm: Lot 23 explores the complex relationship we have with land, particularly as it relates to agricul….

Oh Witness Dey!

By (author): Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootooโ€™s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no r….

impact statement

By (author): Jody Chan

Longlisted Pat Lowther AwardA revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community ….

Graphis scripta / writing lichen

By (author): Clare Goulet

Clare Goulet considers how things are and also are not what they seem, grounding her poems in the natural history of lic….

Ox Lost, Snow Deep

By (author): Alice Burdick

“I’m just going to break this, okay?” writes Nova Scotia poet Alice Burdick in her sixth full-length poetry collection. ….

Aqueous

By (author): Nathanael Jones

Aqueous by Nathanael Jones is a collection of prose poems that address the ways in which post-colonial realities in the ….

I Will Get Up Off Of

By (author): Simina Banu

Overthinking simple actions leads to overwhelming poems about what one can lean on if promised help doesnโ€™t help๏ปฟ๏ปฟ….

Precedented Parroting

Opening with an exit, the poems inย Precedented Parrotingย accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity o….

The Work

By (author): Bren Simmers

The poems in The Work engage with the work of love and loss and the hope that we might somehow learn to carry our portio….

echolalia echolalia

Shortlisted Raymond Souster AwardInterviewed on CBC BooksCBC Best Poetry Book 2024 Relentlessly inventive poetry that p….

In the Key of Decay

Triangulated against the backdrop of a deteriorating world,ย In the Key of Decayย pushes past borders both real and imag….

Heliotropia

By (author): Manahil Bandukwala

WINNER OF THE 2025 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARD FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD”Where fear collides with….

I Hate Parties

By (author): Jes Battis

Fifty poems to dance (awkwardly) between queer and anxious spaces. Social anxiety runs through I Hate Parties like a cur….

Blood Belies

Contributions by: Ellen Chang-Richardson

In this arresting debut collection Ellen Chang-Richardson writes of race, of injury and of belonging in stunning poems t….

What Fills Your House Like Smoke

In these poems, E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheri….
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BIPOC Poets

People You Know, Places You’ve Been

By (author): Hana Shafi

The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the unlikely connections we make to the people and pla….
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Arabic, between Love and War

Edited by: Yasmine Haj, Norah Alkharashi

In Arabic, the word for love ุญุจ is one letter shorter than the word for war ุญุฑุจ Here, translators gather to perfo….

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After)

By (author): Mirabel

The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After)ย is an existential meditation on griefโ€”the kindย of griefย which pins you down….
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