Resource Links

• Poetry Resources/Organizations

• The League of Canadian Poets : Canada's national organization serving professionally published and practising poets; Includes links to "Poetry Spoken Here," a listing of poetry readings.
• Canada’s National Poetry Month
• Spoken Word Arts Network (SWAN) : with an ever-increasing database of spoken word artists with a goal of furthering the development of Spoken Word in Canada and internationally
• Arc Poetry Magazine : Extensive resources at the Arc Magazine poetry site, including Portage, “a routes map to the poetry ecosystem, as spied in Canada and elsewhere around the world.”
• Canadian Authors Association : The sister organization to the Writers' Union.
• Canadian Conference of the Arts : represents 200,000 cultural workers, and has some very valuable tax advice. The Canadian Conference of the Arts is Canada's oldest and largest arts advocacy group. Founded in 1945 by the leading artists of the day, the CCA was created to impress upon governments and the general public the importance of the arts and cultural industries in Canadian society. The CCA is an independent, non-partisan organization and a registered charity. Online you will find a guide to the CCA's international activities, its national political activities, including submissions on New Media, Finance, and Cultural policy, valuable tax primers for artists and writers, and more.
• Canadian Federation of Poets : Exists to unite international communities and artists in the celebration of all that is important to us as poets and as people living in an ever-changing world.
• Canadian Poetry Association : promotes the reading, writing, publishing, and preservation of poetry.
• Canadian Poets – University of Toronto Library : includes biographies, bibliographies, sample poems, writing philosophy, links
• Canadian Writers Foundation : Helping Canadian Writers in need
• CANSCAIP : For children's writing.
• Digital Poetry Archive of Canada
• Dub Poets Collective : The centre for Dub poetry in Toronto, “The Hub of the Dub”.
• Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry
• PEN Canada : One of 144 centres of International PEN in 102 countries, is a literary and human rights association formed in 1926 to protect everyone's right to freedom of expression.
• Professional Writers Association of Canada
• Words Aloud
• Writers Foundation LLC : Writers Foundation LLC was created to inspire, inform and educate. A place to share, reflect and review. Writers Foundation is dedicated to spreading the world of poetry to everyone.
• Writers in Electronic Residence (WiER)
• Writers Union of Canada : for writers of all genres, including poetry.
• Youth Poetry : The place for young poets and their teachers, includes an ezine, poetry contests, workshops, mentoring, interviews. Hosted by The League of Canadian Poets.

• Poetry Forums

• Owen Sound Sun Times : The Sun Times has created an online poetry forum.

• Poetry Maps

• World Poetry Map : featuring oral and written poetry traditions from the world’s endangered and contested languages.
• US National Poetry Map : hosted by the Academy of American poets to foster local poetry communities