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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 recommendation—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 you’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.

The cover of The Door at the End of Everything by Lynda Monahan. The cover is an abstract painting of blue, grey, black, and white square shapes, imposed with red words like "greed" and "hatred", and red silhouetted swallows taking flight.

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Two Poems: The Door at the End of Everything

A photograph of the Artist's Studio at the Artist's House, a small portable building painted sage green with three abstract-painted panels along its wall. The building is shaded by the leafy branches of a large tree. A porchlight illuminates the white door.

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Field Trip: Poetry Night at The Artists’ House

The cover of All Wrong Horses on Fire That Go Away in the Rain

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

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The cover of Supergiants by Kyle Flemmer. A line drawing of a planet with an orbit is superimposed over the title, with a fuzzy, black and white photo negative of space in the background.

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Poetry in Motion: Kyle Flemmer + Supergiants

The cover of Lost Signal by Chris Hutchinson. It features a painting from Jason Siddiqui on the cover, an abstract collection of shapes over a stripey background.

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Poetry in Motion: Chris Hutchinson + Lost Signal

The cover of Blood Root by Jessica Hiemstra.

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Poetry in Motion: Jessica Hiemstra + Blood Root

2025 League of Canadian Poets Longlist

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 doesn’t help….

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….

Heliotropia

By (author): Manahil Bandukwala

Featured on CBC Books”Where fear collides with the little shield of love.”Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poem….

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….

impact statement

By (author): Jody Chan

A revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so….

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. ….

Dayo

By (author): Marc Perez

An elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging. Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who….

Farm: Lot 23

By (author): Tonya Lailey

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

In the Key of Decay

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

Good Want

By (author): Domenica Martinello

What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks y….

Precedented Parroting

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

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….

Oh Witness Dey!

By (author): Shani Mootoo

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

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 ….

Weather

Living with his wife and young children in a small apartment during the pandemic lockdown, Rob Taylor developed a habit ….

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 doesn’t help….

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….

Heliotropia

By (author): Manahil Bandukwala

Featured on CBC Books”Where fear collides with the little shield of love.”Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poem….

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….

impact statement

By (author): Jody Chan

A revolutionary call to arms wherein the arms are love, art, self-definition, and community care as an alternative to so….

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. ….

Dayo

By (author): Marc Perez

An elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging. Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who….

Farm: Lot 23

By (author): Tonya Lailey

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

In the Key of Decay

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

Good Want

By (author): Domenica Martinello

What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks y….

Precedented Parroting

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

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….

Oh Witness Dey!

By (author): Shani Mootoo

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

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 ….

Weather

Living with his wife and young children in a small apartment during the pandemic lockdown, Rob Taylor developed a habit ….

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 doesn’t help….

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