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Celebrating 50 years of poetry in 2025 ✨ https://linktr.ee/cv2magazine
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Whether developed alongside workshops she facilitates or shared within community spaces, Anneliese’s zines reflect a commitment to accessible, DIY media that uplifts diverse voices and fosters connection.
Anneliese Schoppe has been creating zines as a vibrant form of expression, collaboration, and community-building. Her zine practice of twenty years is deeply rooted in friendship, grassroots organizing, and the transformative power of DIY press and information sharing.
This workshop is part of our 50th Anniversary Workshop Series, and is free but requires advance registration. Follow the link above and sign up by November 2nd!

Winnipeg residents, please share this with the teachers and youths in your life. Teachers, please pass the word along to your students!
Workshop announcement! Open to youth ages 16 - 18 in Winnipeg, this free, in-person zine workshop is hosted by Anneliese Schoppe and CV2 staff. Exploring themes of community and place, participants will discuss contemporary Canadian poetry and create their own zines.
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This issue contains poems from 1975 - 1999 alongside new work from current and emerging poets. (We'll keep it coming in our Fall Issue, with reprinted poems from 2000-2020.) To read the missing halves of these snippets, get your copy or subscribe on our website!
Daphne Marlatt's enigmatic "in passing" first appeared in a beautiful issue from 1982 entitled A Sacred Mosaic: Spiritual Poetry in Canada, and the haunting "Mother and I Walking" by Lorna Crozier comes from the Saskatchewan entry in a series from the 80s that each feature a different province.
Have you seen our Summer Issue yet?

With only a precious one or two copies of our earliest issues left, we feel so lucky to have a window back to the 1970's to see this special 50th Anniversary issue's archival poems in their original context.
ID: "Announcing our 2025 Foster Poetry Prize judge: jaye simpson. Final Deadline: November 1." Green backdrop with a headshot of jaye and two of her poetry books.
The Foster Poetry Prize is open to emerging poets, which we classify as anyone who has not yet published a full-length collection of poetry (chapbooks are fine!) Follow the link in our bio to submit.

The Foster Poetry Prize is funded in part by the Manitoba Arts Council @mbartscouncil
The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the single best poem submitted to the contest. Second and third place winners and an honourable mention will receive publication in CV2 and $350, $250, and $150, respectively.
she is a displaced Indigenous person resisting, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver.
They appear in: Hustling Verse (2019), Love After the End (2020), The Care We Dream Of (2021), and Queer Little Nightmares (2022). Their 1st poetry collection, it was never going to be okay won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in EN. a body more tolerable, is her 2nd book of poetry.
jaye simpson (she/they) is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating utopia.
✨We are so fortunate to announce that this year’s Foster Poetry Prize judge is the brilliant and luminous jaye simpson! ✨
One month until the early bird deadline!

Are you an emerging poet who has not yet published a full-length poetry collection? The Foster Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 to the 1st place winner!

Submit by Oct. 1st to include an extra poem. More info: contemporaryverse2.ca/foster-poetr...
Summer Issue Launch TOMORROW!!

We're so excited to announce our line-up of readers for the launch of the Summer 2025 Issue of CV2!

Join us August 28th at 7pm Central Time for this free online event. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
✨In honour of our 50th anniversary issue, we’ve been wandering through the archive. This issue brings back gems from M. NourbeSe Philip, Larissa Lai, and many more brilliant voices. ✨
📖 Join us this Thursday at 7pm for the launch! Register through the link in bio!
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Can you believe our 2025 Fiction Contest closes in less than a month?! Don't miss your chance to submit!

This year's contest is being judged by Anuja Varghese.
Prize: $2000 + Publication
Deadline: September 2, 2025
Guidelines: thefiddlehead.ca/contests/fic...
You're invited to the launch of the Summer issue! This special extended issue features archival poems from CV2's first 25 years and new work from emerging poets celebrating their first print publication!

Aug. 28th, 7pm CT on Zoom. Free, but registration is required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
You’ll notice that poets in both 1981 and 2025 write about the sea. You’ll note that poets will never stop writing about the moon. We’ve given the poets past the first word and the poets present the last, but it’s not over: our fall issue will share more archival poems, beginning with the year 2000.
As you move through the issue, you’ll read one archival CV2 poem, followed the new work of a poet, and so on. You’ll find poems by Emily Riddle, Bob Hicok, and Frances Boyle sitting right snug up against poems by bpNichol, Bronwen Wallace, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the founder of CV2, Dorothy Livesay.
Beginning with our first year of opera­tion, 1975, all the way up to the dawn of the new millennium, 1999, we received the kind permission of twenty-five CV2 poets past, their family members, and publishers, to share their work again.
This issue is the result of a special project undertaken to celebrate CV2’s 50th an­niversary. Longtime CV2 editor Clarise Foster rejoined our team to help select one poem from each of CV2’s first twenty-five years of operation, to republish alongside the new work that we share in all our issues.
The Summer 2025 issue of CV2 is here! Featuring beautiful, Winnipeg-summer-celebratory cover photography by Julio César Assis, this expanded issue is unlike anything else we’ve ever published. Get your copy here: contemporaryverse2.ca/issues/summe...
More details about this special issue below!