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ISSUE Vol23. No.02 CONTENT
1-Poets gather by the tranquil Crowe waters -Posted by Judy Backus by Chris Faiers
2-A Poet of no nation visits a nation that knows poetry by Olawatoyin Ade-Odutola.
3-POEMS by CPA members and non-members
4-REVIEWS by Chris Faiers and Katherine L. Gordon
5-PURDYFESTphotos and articles
6-Acorn-Plantos Award
7-Poet Laureate Map
8-Carol Shields Festival 2009
9-Featured Poets
10- MUCH MORE!!!
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2009 Canadian Aid Literary Award Contest. Contest info flyer is attached. Information is also posted on Canadian Aid Charity's websites www.canadianaid.org and www.canadianaid.com.
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Celebrating Poets over 70: Call for Poems Tower Poetry Society and the McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies are soliciting poems written after the age of 70. Selected poems will be published in a jointly sponsored anthology. "Celebrating Po...
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View my page on iPeace ====================== Random Acts of Poetry Random Acts of Poetry week earlier this month: http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeminer ======================= How do our writers work and feel about their literary lot? Wordwrights Canada has developed a set of annotated links to books of essays, memoirs, and interviews on their own creative experience by writers from Margaret Atwood through John Metcalf to Peter Van Toorn. “Canadian Poets and Fiction Writers on Their Art and Writing Life” is online at

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WORLD LITERACY OF CANADA: KAMA 2009
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Dear Kama Enthusiasts,
Series tickets will be sold for $250 as of September 1st.
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Black Moss will publish another book of my poems in 2009-

New of Sept. and October- 2008:

Bernice Lever read her poems “Publishing Poetry” for West Vancouver Library, Oct. 29, and 3 workshop talks for Surrey International Writers’ Conference, Oct. 24-26. She has 3 new poems posted with “Cyclamens and Swords”, Israel.

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