April is Poetry Month / Avril, le mois de la poésie


All through April, we’re sharing a poem a day, celebrating the vibrant voices of our local poets writing in English. This initiative is coordinated by Angela Leuck, publisher of Shoreline Press.

Join us as we explore the creativity and stories of our community, one poem at a time.

April 1st. Elizabeth Paulette-Coughlin. Early Spring in the Vale

April 2nd. Derek Webster. Photograph of my Parents

April 3d. Elizabeth Levac. The Topographic Scale of Power (Ruins reign over the Earth)

April 4. Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt. Freelance

April 5. Ellen Goldfinch. Dorothy Parker is Missing

April 6. Janice LaDuke. A Sonnet for the Spruce

April 7. Eleanor Gang. Where I’m From

April 8. Carolyn Raffman. East Coastal Break: Haibun

April 9. Phyllis Sise. Web of Light

April 10. Chantal Ringuet. Treelessness (an excerpt)

April 11. Steve Luxton. The Poetic Townships

April 12. Angela Leuck. View from the Top

April 13. R.A. Garber. I see from my Bed

April 14. Hayley Bernier. You do not have to be good

April 15. Heather Davis. Here

April 16. Kathleen McHale. Happy Baby

April 17. Christine Rose. Pigeons of Lac-des-Nations

APRIL 18: Adele Ernstrom. In Greta Woods

APRIL 19: Ann Scowcroft. Flight
APRIL 20: Kyra Shaughnessy. To seek oneself

APRIL 19: Ann Scowcroft. Flight

APRIL 21: Alice Brereton. The Last Words of the First Talking Cat
to be Executed for Murder

April 22: Xania Keane. The New Tenant

April 23: Rebecca Papucaru. Introducing Miss Zelda Zonk

April 24: Jan Draper. Blue Stone

April 25: John Mackley. Jewel

April 26: Carole Martignacco. How The Sun

April 27: Billy Doyle. The Crackle Of a Grackle

April 28: Esther Saanum. Hawk Down

April 29: Ritsu Kandachi. Three Tanka

April 30: Josh Quirion. Excuse me, Why do you Worship Small Bones?