This year’s International Women’s Day is all about advocating for balance—whether it’s in the boardroom or on your own bookshelf. And while diversity in literature is something we should always be thinking about, a good first step toward gender-balance is celebrating ... Read more

Sisterhood of the Squared Circle by Pat Laprade and Dan Murphy (ECW Press), a compelling history of women's wrestling, and Netflix's GLOW, a show about a group of female wrestlers in the '80s, make one fierce tag team: we learned so much about the awesome world of women's ... Read more

Holy April showers, National Poetry Month is over already? While this year's #poetsresist campaign comes to a close, we'll continue to keep our fists held high against social injustice all year and beyond. Read on for a book recommendation as well as other litbits, and enjoy ... Read more

Katherine Leyton's debut poetry collection  All the Gold Hurts My Mouth (Goose Lane Editions) is a perfect end to #poetsresist: it examines sexual politics through the 21st century lens of ever-present communication technology. Her raw-yet-gorgeous poetics are a view into ... Read more

Fists up for National Poetry Month! And we mean that in the best way possible. This year, we feel everyone could see a little more solidarity and community, so we're getting poetically political with Poets Resist, a series dedicated to poetry as a form of resistance. Every day ... Read more

Ottawa's VERSEfest is going on this week; if you're in that neck of the woods, be sure to check out their  amazing programming. We've included events with All Lit Up authors here for your convenience.

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