National Poetry Month 2026 : Chaudiere Books blog,

In case you weren't aware, I've been posting daily poems all April for National Poetry Month over at the Chaudiere Books blog by an array of poets from Canada and beyond, with the entire 2026 series now available online. This is the thirteenth year I've been curating poems for same, and you can catch links for the entire series over here. 

Here are the poets with new work posted for 2026: enjoy!

Maleea Acker ; Junie Désil ; Jordan Davis ; Cole Swensen ; Chris Johnson ; Catriona Strang ; Noah Sparrow ; Eve Luckring ; Conor Mc Donnell ; Stephen Brockwell ; Han VanderHart ; Rahat Kurd ; Nancy Huggett ; Emily Shafer ; Jon Cone ; Laura Farina ; Jen Tynes ; Jason Christie ; Jane Shi ; Jed Munson ; Pearl Pirie ; Michael Goodfellow ; Charlie Petch ; Daphne Marlatt ; Andy Weaver ; Jessi MacEachern ; Carla Harris ; Melissa Powless Day ; Zane Koss ;

Chaudiere Books : National Poetry Month,

In case you didn't catch, I curated and posted daily poems once again this year for National Poetry Month over at the Chaudiere Books blog. Can you believe this is the twelfth year I've been doing this? You can see links to the entire series of poems here, by the way. Either way, be sure to check out the poems by this year's poets. Thanks to everyone for participating! Helen Robertson ; rob mclennan ; Benjamin Niespodziany ; Jacqueline Valencia ; Sarah Wolfson ; Deborah Meadows ; Amanda Earl ; Dawn Macdonald ; Kendra Sullivan ; Tom Jenks ; Jason Heroux ; Leesa Dean ; Gloria Frym ; Kevin Stebner ; Jamie Kitts ; Michael Turner ; D. S. Stymeist ; Courtney Bates-Hardy ; Em Dial ; Edward Smallfield ; Carlos A. Pittella ; Karla Kelsey ; Scott Inniss ; Julie Paul ; Jack Saebyok Jung ; Salem Paige ; Lana Crossman ; Michael Boughn ; Tolu Oloruntoba ; Jaclyn Desforges ;

Chaudiere Books : six questions interview series + National Poetry Month,

In case you haven't been aware, I've been conducting a weekly interview series over at the Chaudiere Books blog for some time now (some one hundred and seventy weeks now, I would say), interviewing a slew of current and former Ottawa-based writers in my ongoing 'six questions' series (see the full list of authors with links to their interviews here, including names of forthcoming interviewees as they happen). And don't forget about our tenth annual National Poetry Month series! For the tenth year running, during the month of April we're posting a new poem every day, with new poems so far this year by Khashayar Mohammadi, Maw Shein Win and Jérôme Melançon (see the full list of names from the entire series with links, here). Just who might be next?

Chaudiere Books : National Poetry Month 2022

In case you missed it : Chaudiere Books posted a poem a day across National Poetry Month for the ninth year running!

2022: rob mclennan ; Julie Carr : Ryanne Kap ; Sarah Hilton ; Bruce Whiteman ; ryan fitzpatrick ; Bronwen Tate ; Armand Garnet Ruffo ; Juliane Okot Bitek ; Susie Campbell ; N.W. Lea ; Monica Mody ; Adele Graf ; Liz Howard ; Shaindel Beers ; Conyer Clayton ; Christian McPherson ; katie o'brien ; Dale Martin Smith ; Sarah Mangold ; Helen Robertson ; Sacha Archer ; Saba Pakdel ; Gregory Betts ; Sarah MacDonell ; Margo LaPierre ; Blaine Marchand ; em kniefel ; Andy Verboom ; Michelle Desbarats ;

See the full list of nine years here, as well as links to all the poems;

Chaudiere Books : National Poetry Month 2020

In case you missed it, I've been curating poems for National Poetry Month over at the Chaudiere Books blog (there are other activities on the site apart from that, of course, including the weekly "Six Questions: series of interviews with current and former Ottawa-based writers), and this year had our seventh annual selection of poems, with a new piece posting every day. Isn't that exciting? See this year's list below, and prior lists here, if such intrigues. Enjoy!

2020: Lizzie Derksen ; Amish Trivedi ; Shannon Maguire ; nina jane drystek ; Hugh Thomas ; Jaime Forsythe ; Stan Rogal ; natalie hanna ; Stephen Collis ; Heather Sweeney ; Emily Izsak ; Mia Morgan ; David Ly ; Douglas Barbour ; Gillian Parrish ; Stuart Ross ; Kayla Czaga ; MLA Chernoff ; Sanita Fejzić ; Nikki Reimer ; Michael Edwards ; Lydia Unsworth ; Chris Banks ; Alina Stefanescu ; Annick MacAskill ; Amanda Earl ; Julian Day ; Ellen Chang-Richardson ; Margo LaPierre ; Dale Tracy ;

chaudiere books / national poetry month

In case you hadn't noticed, #NationalPoetryMonth occurred in April, which meant a whole month's worth of poems appeared over at the Chaudiere Books blog!

This was actually the sixth annual set of poems posted for poetry month, but the first to see poems posted daily (as opposed to every second day, which prior years had done), and saw new work by a plethora of new and established poets, most of whom are Canadian (with the occasional American poet tossed in for good measure).

Over at the site, you can now see the full month's worth, with new poems by Manahil Bandukwala, Joe Blades, Ian Martin, Pearl Pirie, Isabella Wang, Anita Dolman, Gil McElroy, Jason Christie, Karen Massey, Conyer Clayton, Kristina Drake, Amy LeBlanc, R. Kolewe, Alice Burdick, natalie hanna, Stan Rogal, Sharon Harris, rob mclennan, nina jane drystek, Elee Kraljii Gardner, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Zane Koss, Simon Brown, Kate Siklosi, Chris Warren, Chris Johnson, Stephen Brockwell, Julia Polyck-O’Neill, Geoffrey Nilson and Jane Virginia Rohrer. Thanks to all who participated!

Chaudiere Books blog : National Poetry Month begins next week!

Over at the Chaudiere Books blog, we begin our fifth annual National Poetry Month array of new poems! With new work appearing almost daily by Chaudiere authors and friends of the press alike, including Natalee Caple, K.I. Press, Amanda Earl and and and... who else? You'll just have to tune in to see!

National Poetry Month 2017 : Chaudiere Books blog

In case you missed it, I curated my fourth annual National Poetry Month series over at the Chaudiere Books blog, with new poems by Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Joe Blades, nathan dueck, Lauren Turner, Carl Watts, Stan Rogal, Jamie Sharpe, Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Andrew McEwan, Sharon Harris, Sean Braune, Natalie Hanna, Chris Johnson, Kristina Drake, N.W. Lea, rob mclennan and Anita Dolman.

National Poetry Month 2017 : Chaudiere Books blog

In case you haven't seen, I'm curating my fourth annual National Poetry Month series over at the Chaudiere Books blog, with new poems posting every day or two. Already I've posted new pieces by Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Joe Blades, nathan dueck, Lauren Turner, Carl Watts, Stan Rogal, Jamie Sharpe and Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Andrew McEwan, with pieces forthcoming by Sharon Harris, Sean Braune and N.W. Lea, among others. What else might come?

Profile on Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca, Open Book: Ontario

My profile on Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca (featuring, among other pieces, michèle provost's "name that painting") is now online at Open Book: Ontario.

Poetry Month via Chaudiere Books!

Over at the Chaudiere Books blog, we're celebrating National Poetry Month with new poems every second day for the entire month of April! Watch for new work by Chaudiere authors and friends alike, including Janice Tokar, Helen Hajnoczky, Joe Blades, Kayla Czaga, Hugh Thomas, Sarah Mangold, Pearl Pirie, Stan Rogal, Lea Graham and derek beaulieu, among others.

And of course, watch for new spring titles by N.W. Lea and William Hawkins!

two poems for poetry month (plus another one);

I've had two poems posted in various places for Poetry Month: one on Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca site, and another on the Chaudiere Books blog. Exciting, yes? Another fragment of the same poem Amanda published also appears online in the all-new online Grey Borders.

National Poetry Month: Chaudiere Books,

In case you might not have noticed, April was (supposedly) Poetry Month, and to celebrate such, Chaudiere Books posted new poems by Chaudiere authors and friends of the press alike all month on the blog, with a new piece posted roughly every second day. There are now new poems on the site by Amanda Earl, Roland Prevost, Gil McElroy, Rhonda Douglas, Anita Dolman, Marcus McCann, Eleni Zisimatos, Pearl Pirie, derek beaulieu, Karen Massey, myself, Helen Hajnoczky and plenty of others.

Watch for our spring Indiegogo campaign! You can join our facebook group to keep track, or even join us on twitter @ChaudiereBooks.