Poetry Cure: National Poetry Month

Last year we raised our poetic fists for National Poetry Month with Poets Resist, a month-long celebration of poetry as a form of resistance. This year, we’re taking a deep breath and preserving our collective strength with Poetry Cure, a series dedicated to poetry as a mode of healing. Every day on All Lit Up, we’ll chat with a different poet and share a poem that we hope will be a little breath of fresh air as you move through your day. Plus, sign up for our Daily Poetry Cure newsletter and get a poem delivered to your inbox every day for the whole month. So go ahead and check out our cool, fresh line-up of poets coming your way starting on April 2. 

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During the month of April, you can buy any of our featured Poetry Cure books for 15% off (+ get a free notebook to jot down your moments of reflection). April 2: Lorna Crozier and What the Soul Doesn’t Want (Freehand Books) l FeatureApril 3: Lesley Belleau and Indianland (ARP Books) l FeatureApril 4: Rob Taylor and The News (Gaspereau Press) l FeatureApril 5: Catherine Graham and The Celery Forest (Wolsak and Wynn) l FeatureApril 6: Pino Coluccio and Class Clown (Biblioasis) l FeatureApril 9: Alison Dyer and I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game (Breakwater Books) l FeatureApril 10: Mallory Tater and This Will Be Good (Book*hug) l FeatureApril 11: Susan Elmslie and The Museum of Kindness (Brick Books) l FeatureApril 12: Robin Dyke and Lasting, Leaving, Left (Promontory Press) l FeatureApril 13: Jónína Kirton and page as bone – ink as blood (Talonbooks) l FeatureApril 16: Patrick Friesen and Songen (Mother Tongue Publishing) l FeatureApril 17: Cameron Anstee and Book of Annotations (Invisible Publishing) l FeatureApril 18: Kate Braid and Elemental (Caitlin Press) l FeatureApril 19: Max Layton and Like (Guernica Editions) l FeatureApril 20: Joelle Barron and Ritual Lights (Goose Lane Editions) l FeatureApril 23: Clementine Morrigan and The Size of a Bird (Inanna Publications) l FeatureApril 24: Jonathan Bennett and Happinesswise (ECW Press) l FeatureApril 25: (In memory of) Sharron Proulx-Turner and creole métisse of french canada, me (Kegedonce Press) l FeatureApril 26: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Bodymap (Mawenzi House) l Feature
Keep up with us all month on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook with the hashtag #ALUpoetrycure!

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