four poetry opportunities

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CALLING ALL YOUNG POETS! The Jessamy Stursberg
Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth
Deadline: January 15, 2013.

There are two age categories, junior (grades 7-9) and senior (grades
10-12). First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize
of $350, second place winners will receive $300 and third place
winners will receive $250. All winning poems will be published in the
League of Canadian Poets' e-zine, Re:verse at www.youngpoets.ca. All
winners will receive Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth
certificates and student memberships in the League of Canadian Poets
for one year. For guidelines:
http://poets.ca/wordpress/contests-awards.



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: LITERARY REVIEW OF CANADA (LRC)

We're changing up our poetry section for 2013, with each issue to
feature poems that share a common form or theme. During the months
devoted to a given form, the subjects will vary, and vice versa. Below
is our 2013 publication calendar to help guide submissions. As always,
we welcome unsolicited, unpublished, original submissions, provided
that they fit one of the categories outlined in this schedule:



a.. January/February: sonnets
b.. March: poems from the margins, e.g. pieces from/about our
prisons, reserves, North, rural areas, etc.
c.. April: short poems, of less than 50 words - consider haikus,
tankas, rubaiyats, tweet-poems, triolets, and other short styles
d.. May: poems on the elements, e.g. fire, earth, water, air, wood,
etc.
e.. June: villanelles
f.. July/August: ekphrastic poetry, i.e. pieces inspired by other
art forms (visual, film, music, etc.)
g.. September: prose poems
h.. October: poems inspired by family
i.. November: ghazals
j.. December: poems inspired by food


Please note that there are two reading periods: 1) May 1 to December
5, 2012 for publication January-June 2013 and 2) beginning May 1, 2013
for publication July/August-December 2013. Please include the month in
which you would like your work to be read in the subject line of any
emailed submissions. For more information, check out our full
submissions guidelines online at: http://reviewcanada.ca/submissions



CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SUBTERRANEAN BLUE POETRY

Subterranean Blue Poetry is an Internet Poetry and Art Publishing
Café. We thrive on new original words and New Age Art. All Poets and
their poetry are welcome and we are especially looking for homegrown
Poets from the Canadian/American Indian Community, Quebec, small town
Canada, international Poets and anyone who was ever considered "the
other." New Age Art offerings are for the masthead of each issue. We
are currently open to submissions. www.subterraneanbluepoetry.com.



THE FIFTH ANNUAL NORTHWEST POETS' CONCORD, Newport, Oregon

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2012
May 3 -5, 2013
@ the Hallmark Inn and Resort in Newport, OR.
Our keynote speaker this year is Ellen Waterston.



This is a call for proposals for participation in the conference. By
December 15, 2012, please send a brief description of your proposed
activity and mark it as such in a newly-generated e-mail to
ellstons@gmail.com.
The advisory board will consider proposals for the following 50-minute
sessions:

Workshops, Panels, Conversations, Academic-type presentations.

We will have a limited number of slots for 10-minute readings included
in the program.

These will be dedicated to poets who have new books this year.
Everyone else will be encouraged to read at one of the two open mics.

Please let us know if you have a new book and would like a 10-minute
slot.

Some new developments this year: preregistration will be required,
and attendance will be limited to 120 participants; only two events
will occur at a time; there may be opportunities for a mentoring
conference with a well-known poet for a small additional fee.

Look for us on facebook as Northwest Poets' Concord, and don't forget!
Send us your proposal by December 15.





Elma Schemenauer, elmams@shaw.ca, author of 75 books published in
Canada and the USA, editor of many others. Blog
www.elmasalmanac.blogspot.com Website www.elma03.com