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 🥰

This is the last issue celebrating our 50th year, and we’ve shared a mix of poems appearing publicly for the first time and poems we ourselves have published before, going all the way back to the year 2000. (If you'd like to read the poems we shared from 1975–1999, check out our summer issue!)

The online launch next Thursday will feature readings from our contributors! The event is free to attend but requires advance registration, here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

ID: Text graphic with a green background, the Foster Poetry Prize logo in yellow. Text: included above. The Foster Poetry Prize. Last day to submit: November 7. For more info: www.contemporaryverse2.ca

The Foster Poetry Prize is open to emerging poets of any age. It awards $1000 and publication in CV2 to the author of the winning poem, as well as cash prizes and publication in CV2 to three honourable mentions. Full contest details at the link in our bio 💫

Take your "final draft.docx" and make it "REAL FINAL Final draft.docx" because the deadline to submit to the Foster Poetry Prize is just two days away!

Follow the link in our bio to submit!

I'm looking for poetry as the political, as mighty as the silver tongued sword aflame. Blatant and ferocious, unforgiving and ungovernable. Like the many women and queers around us: alive and aching!”💫

ID: A text graphic displayed over collaged pieces of paper and a mouth open with two different fonts against a green background. A CV2 Foster Poetry Prize logo sits in a small circle at the bottom. Text: Calling all poets! You get a deadline extension. New deadline: November 7th, 2025.

The contest is open to emerging writers of any age who have not yet published a full-length book of poetry (chapbooks are fine!) Click the link in our bio to submit ✨

The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 to the author of the single best poem we receive (as judged by jaye simpson). Three honourable mentions will also receive cash prizes and publication in the magazine.

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!

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.

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.