CFS: 2019 NPM in the WFP

For the fourth year in a row, the Winnipeg Free Press will be hosting a National Poetry Month project. Taking a leaf from the League of Canadian Poets, the 2019 edition of NPM in the WFP will focus on nature poetry.

Are there mice in your lyric poems, skunks in your sonnets, or snow geese in your prose poems? Do you write about climate change or gardening or roadside animals? Do you write about urban nature or are your nature poems set on farms, provincial park trailheads, or dockside? Send them to us!

Eligible writers: Winnipeg writers. NPM in the WFP is committed to a diversity of voices: emerging, PoC, spoken word, Indigenous, established, LGBTQ+, and page poets.

Details:

• Email previously unpublished poemson the theme of “nature” to poetrymonthwfp@gmail.com.
• The DEADLINE for submissions is March 29, 2019.
• Submit a maximum of 5 poems. Each poem should be no more than 25 lines.
• Please submit your poems in one Word document (PDF or RTF also acceptable). 
•  Send a short bio (max 40 words), both in the body of the email AND in your submission

About the Editors:

Ariel Gordon is the author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Recent projects include the anthology GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times, co-edited with Tanis MacDonald and Rosanna Deerchild. On May 27, she will be launching her latest book, Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests (Wolsak & Wynn).

John Toews is the Event Coordinator at McNally Robinson Booksellers. He was granted Honorary Membership in the League of Canadian Poets in 2015.

Heckling

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I always force audiences to threaten/heckle me, just to keep things interesting. (From last night’s NPM in the WFP 2018 event at McNally's.)

Launching NPM in the WFP 2018!

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I was super tired and Jason had the flu, but we launched the NPM in the WFP 2018 and it was a great night. Standing room only, lots of new-to-me voices, lots of fun.

I made terrible jokes. I said some strange things. But it didn't matter. It was a great night despite me.

I do so love this project, even it is sort of odd.

My thanks to Jason for co-editing and John Toews for organizing/hosting the event.

NPM in the 2018: PRINTED!

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So here are the two pages of NPM poems that ran in yesterday's Winnipeg Free Press. I'm so pleased with the third edition of this project and grateful for co-editor Jason Stefanik and 49.8 editor Scott Gibbons as well as designer Leesa Dahl and photographer Michael Deal.

My deep thanks to participating poets: Di Brandt, Conni Cartlidge, Rebecca Danos, Kristian Enright, Sarah Ens, J. Robert Ferguson, Sally Ito, Ted Landrum, Louella Lester, Kim MacRae, Michael Minor, Amber O’Reilly, Patricia Robertson, and David Yerex Williamson.

See you 7pm on April 30 at McNally's for the launch of the 2018 NPM in the WFP project!

NPM in the WFP 2018

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Winnipeg poets! Submit!

NPM in the WFP 2017

For the second year in a row, The Winnipeg Free Press will be hosting a National Poetry Month project.

Every Saturday in April, poems by Winnipeg writers will appear in the 49.8 section.

Eligible writers: Winnipeg writers. NPM in the WFP is committed to a diversity of voices: emerging, PoC, spoken word, Indigenous, established, LGBTQ+, and page poets. If your work was featured in the 2016 edition of NPM on the WFP, you may still submit, but the priority will be new writers.

Details:

•        Email previously unpublished poems on the theme of “Time” to poetrymonthwfp@gmail.com
•        The DEADLINE for submissions is March 25, 2017.
•        Submit a maximum of 5 poems. Each poem should be no more than 25 lines.
•         Please submit your poems in one Word document (PDF or RTF also acceptable).
•        Send a short bio (max 40 words), both in the body of the email AND in your submission.

About the Editor: Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg writer. Her second collection of poetry, Stowaways (Palimpsest Press, 2014), won the 2015 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. She is currently writing creative non-fiction about Winnipeg’s urban forest, which is slated for publication in 2018 with Wolsak & Wynn.

Reprint: A Poem a Day for NPM

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So my introduction to the NPM in the WFP site is up on the Winnipeg Free Press website.

The intro relies heavily on Robert Kroetsch's Seed Catalogue, of course...

They'll post a poem every weekday in April, starting on April 4.

Fun!