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Announcing: CV2's 50th Anniversary Holiday Party!
We're thrilled to invite you to this in-person event in celebration of our 50th year. This festive evening will feature readings from Winnipeg poets whose work appeared in the magazine this past year, as well as live music. We can't wait!!
We're thrilled to invite you to this in-person event in celebration of our 50th year. This festive evening will feature readings from Winnipeg poets whose work appeared in the magazine this past year, as well as live music. We can't wait!!
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Announcing: CV2's 50th Anniversary Holiday Party!
We're thrilled to invite you to this in-person event in celebration of our 50th year. This festive evening will feature readings from Winnipeg poets whose work appeared in the magazine this past year, as well as live music. We can't wait!!
We're thrilled to invite you to this in-person event in celebration of our 50th year. This festive evening will feature readings from Winnipeg poets whose work appeared in the magazine this past year, as well as live music. We can't wait!!
Happy Giving Tuesday!
If you’d like to donate to CV2 in this season of giving, you can do so here! www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
We so appreciate your support for our small, non-profit organization. You'll receive a tax receipt and our eternal gratitude.
If you’d like to donate to CV2 in this season of giving, you can do so here! www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
We so appreciate your support for our small, non-profit organization. You'll receive a tax receipt and our eternal gratitude.
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy Giving Tuesday!
If you’d like to donate to CV2 in this season of giving, you can do so here! www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
We so appreciate your support for our small, non-profit organization. You'll receive a tax receipt and our eternal gratitude.
If you’d like to donate to CV2 in this season of giving, you can do so here! www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
We so appreciate your support for our small, non-profit organization. You'll receive a tax receipt and our eternal gratitude.
Check out this cover - it couldn't have been created without you, our readers! We included blank postcards in our subscription issues for this, our 50th year, and you responded with your congratulations, your words of love, and, of course, your wonderful poetry! Thank you! It means so much to us 🥰
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Check out this cover - it couldn't have been created without you, our readers! We included blank postcards in our subscription issues for this, our 50th year, and you responded with your congratulations, your words of love, and, of course, your wonderful poetry! Thank you! It means so much to us 🥰
We're so proud of this special extended issue! Join us for a free online event this Thursday, Nov. 27th at 7pm CST., featuring readings by Sarah Klassen, Jade Wallace, Niamh Griffin, Sarah Ens, and more! Get your link in advance: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We're so proud of this special extended issue! Join us for a free online event this Thursday, Nov. 27th at 7pm CST., featuring readings by Sarah Klassen, Jade Wallace, Niamh Griffin, Sarah Ens, and more! Get your link in advance: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us for the launch of the fall issue!
The second of our two extended issues features one archival poem from each year of CV2 from 2000 to 2020, as well as the winners of our 2-Day Poem Contest!
Free! Thursday, Nov. 28th at 7pm Central Time on Zoom. Get the link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The second of our two extended issues features one archival poem from each year of CV2 from 2000 to 2020, as well as the winners of our 2-Day Poem Contest!
Free! Thursday, Nov. 28th at 7pm Central Time on Zoom. Get the link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Join us for the launch of the fall issue!
The second of our two extended issues features one archival poem from each year of CV2 from 2000 to 2020, as well as the winners of our 2-Day Poem Contest!
Free! Thursday, Nov. 28th at 7pm Central Time on Zoom. Get the link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The second of our two extended issues features one archival poem from each year of CV2 from 2000 to 2020, as well as the winners of our 2-Day Poem Contest!
Free! Thursday, Nov. 28th at 7pm Central Time on Zoom. Get the link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Introducing: the Fall 2025 Issue of CV2!
This beautiful issue's cover features a sampling of the gorgeous/kind/poetic/perplexing/hilarious postcards you've been sending us all year. Thank you!! We feel so loved!
We're so excited our online launch on Thurs., Nov. 27th at 7PM CST. Zoom link below!
This beautiful issue's cover features a sampling of the gorgeous/kind/poetic/perplexing/hilarious postcards you've been sending us all year. Thank you!! We feel so loved!
We're so excited our online launch on Thurs., Nov. 27th at 7PM CST. Zoom link below!
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Introducing: the Fall 2025 Issue of CV2!
This beautiful issue's cover features a sampling of the gorgeous/kind/poetic/perplexing/hilarious postcards you've been sending us all year. Thank you!! We feel so loved!
We're so excited our online launch on Thurs., Nov. 27th at 7PM CST. Zoom link below!
This beautiful issue's cover features a sampling of the gorgeous/kind/poetic/perplexing/hilarious postcards you've been sending us all year. Thank you!! We feel so loved!
We're so excited our online launch on Thurs., Nov. 27th at 7PM CST. Zoom link below!
💫”I am looking for poems that are hungry, a sickly ravenous, mouth full of saliva and found wanting, unafraid to bite down and hard.
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
💫”I am looking for poems that are hungry, a sickly ravenous, mouth full of saliva and found wanting, unafraid to bite down and hard.
There's still time to register for this free zine-making workshop!!
If you or someone you know in Winnipeg is aged 16-18 and wants to explore poetry and art under the guidance of an experienced workshop leader, follow the link for more info and to register!
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry-zine-...
If you or someone you know in Winnipeg is aged 16-18 and wants to explore poetry and art under the guidance of an experienced workshop leader, follow the link for more info and to register!
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry-zine-...
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There's still time to register for this free zine-making workshop!!
If you or someone you know in Winnipeg is aged 16-18 and wants to explore poetry and art under the guidance of an experienced workshop leader, follow the link for more info and to register!
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry-zine-...
If you or someone you know in Winnipeg is aged 16-18 and wants to explore poetry and art under the guidance of an experienced workshop leader, follow the link for more info and to register!
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry-zine-...
🐛Good news for the dawdlers and dilly-dalliers... We’ve extended the final deadline for the Foster Poetry Prize by one week and one week only! 🦋
You now have until next Friday, Nov 7, at 11:59pm CST to submit those prize-winning poems!
You now have until next Friday, Nov 7, at 11:59pm CST to submit those prize-winning poems!
October 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🐛Good news for the dawdlers and dilly-dalliers... We’ve extended the final deadline for the Foster Poetry Prize by one week and one week only! 🦋
You now have until next Friday, Nov 7, at 11:59pm CST to submit those prize-winning poems!
You now have until next Friday, Nov 7, at 11:59pm CST to submit those prize-winning poems!
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.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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!
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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.
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.
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.
October 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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.
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.
✨We are so fortunate to announce that this year’s Foster Poetry Prize judge is the brilliant and luminous jaye simpson! ✨
October 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
✨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...
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...
September 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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...
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...
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...
August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
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!
📖 Join us this Thursday at 7pm for the launch! Register through the link in bio!
August 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
✨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!
📖 Join us this Thursday at 7pm for the launch! Register through the link in bio!
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...
Aug. 28th, 7pm CT on Zoom. Free, but registration is required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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...
Aug. 28th, 7pm CT on Zoom. Free, but registration is required: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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!
More details about this special issue below!
August 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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!
More details about this special issue below!
We’re thrilled to announce the 2-Day Poem Contest winners, chosen by our judge Hollie Adams; our editors; our editor’s mom; and you!
These poets crafted stunning poems using a dastardly ten-word list, and you’ll get to read them in our Fall issue! The winners: contemporaryverse2.ca/2025-2-day-p...
These poets crafted stunning poems using a dastardly ten-word list, and you’ll get to read them in our Fall issue! The winners: contemporaryverse2.ca/2025-2-day-p...
August 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We’re thrilled to announce the 2-Day Poem Contest winners, chosen by our judge Hollie Adams; our editors; our editor’s mom; and you!
These poets crafted stunning poems using a dastardly ten-word list, and you’ll get to read them in our Fall issue! The winners: contemporaryverse2.ca/2025-2-day-p...
These poets crafted stunning poems using a dastardly ten-word list, and you’ll get to read them in our Fall issue! The winners: contemporaryverse2.ca/2025-2-day-p...
Inspiration is abundant this summer and lucky for you - there’s plenty of time to submit by our Early Bird Deadline: October 1st!
💫 Did you know that if you submit to the Foster Poetry Prize in the month and a half, you can include an extra poem in your submission, free of charge? 💫
💫 Did you know that if you submit to the Foster Poetry Prize in the month and a half, you can include an extra poem in your submission, free of charge? 💫
August 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Inspiration is abundant this summer and lucky for you - there’s plenty of time to submit by our Early Bird Deadline: October 1st!
💫 Did you know that if you submit to the Foster Poetry Prize in the month and a half, you can include an extra poem in your submission, free of charge? 💫
💫 Did you know that if you submit to the Foster Poetry Prize in the month and a half, you can include an extra poem in your submission, free of charge? 💫
Last chance to vote for the People's Choice Award!
Follow the link to read the poems and vote for one of the four finalists!
Voting closes TODAY, Monday, August 11th, at 11:59pm CT. Stay tuned: the winners in all categories will be announced later this week!
contemporaryverse2.ca/the-2025-2-d...
Follow the link to read the poems and vote for one of the four finalists!
Voting closes TODAY, Monday, August 11th, at 11:59pm CT. Stay tuned: the winners in all categories will be announced later this week!
contemporaryverse2.ca/the-2025-2-d...
August 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Last chance to vote for the People's Choice Award!
Follow the link to read the poems and vote for one of the four finalists!
Voting closes TODAY, Monday, August 11th, at 11:59pm CT. Stay tuned: the winners in all categories will be announced later this week!
contemporaryverse2.ca/the-2025-2-d...
Follow the link to read the poems and vote for one of the four finalists!
Voting closes TODAY, Monday, August 11th, at 11:59pm CT. Stay tuned: the winners in all categories will be announced later this week!
contemporaryverse2.ca/the-2025-2-d...
The review of “The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets Selected and Translated by Yilin Wang”, written by Jeremy Audet & published in the spring 2025 issue of CV2 (Vol.47.4), pp. 69-70 contained multiple errors in the use of the names of five Chinese authors. (1/)
August 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The review of “The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets Selected and Translated by Yilin Wang”, written by Jeremy Audet & published in the spring 2025 issue of CV2 (Vol.47.4), pp. 69-70 contained multiple errors in the use of the names of five Chinese authors. (1/)
i feel that way too by jaz papadopoulos: new review on the website! hannah godfrey calls i feel that way too "utterly arresting," with poems that "can provide the balm of recognition, as well as the irreverent bravery to hope."
Read it here! contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/i-fe...
Read it here! contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/i-fe...
June 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i feel that way too by jaz papadopoulos: new review on the website! hannah godfrey calls i feel that way too "utterly arresting," with poems that "can provide the balm of recognition, as well as the irreverent bravery to hope."
Read it here! contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/i-fe...
Read it here! contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/i-fe...
✨💥We’re hiring!💥✨
CV2 is looking for a dedicated, arts-minded individual living in Winnipeg to join our small but mighty team as Assistant Managing Editor!
Salary: $20/hr for 8 hours/wk. Part-time, flexible hours. Hybrid in-office & work-from-home model.
Full job description at the link in bio💥✨
CV2 is looking for a dedicated, arts-minded individual living in Winnipeg to join our small but mighty team as Assistant Managing Editor!
Salary: $20/hr for 8 hours/wk. Part-time, flexible hours. Hybrid in-office & work-from-home model.
Full job description at the link in bio💥✨
June 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
✨💥We’re hiring!💥✨
CV2 is looking for a dedicated, arts-minded individual living in Winnipeg to join our small but mighty team as Assistant Managing Editor!
Salary: $20/hr for 8 hours/wk. Part-time, flexible hours. Hybrid in-office & work-from-home model.
Full job description at the link in bio💥✨
CV2 is looking for a dedicated, arts-minded individual living in Winnipeg to join our small but mighty team as Assistant Managing Editor!
Salary: $20/hr for 8 hours/wk. Part-time, flexible hours. Hybrid in-office & work-from-home model.
Full job description at the link in bio💥✨