We've made the tough decision to cancel this event due to the very rough weather we're having today 😔💔 Thank you to everyone who was planning to come celebrate with us, as well as to our poets and musical guest. We hope we'll be able to reschedule for the New Year - stay tuned! Happy holidays✨

🌟❄️🌙 Tonight’s the night! 🌙❄️🌟   Winnipeg! We're keeping a close eye on the weather and as long as things feel somewhat calm by 7:00pm tonight, we hope you'll join us at Video Pool for an evening of poetry, live music, cake, and community!

🌟❄️🌙This Friday!🌙❄️🌟 Winnipeg! You’re invited to our 50th Anniversary Holiday Party, featuring poetry readings from local poets, live music by Theresa Thor, refreshments, and a screen-print-your-own-CV2-tote station! 6:30PM doors / 7:00PM event
 Video Pool - 2nd Floor, 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg

This Friday! We're gearing up for our 50th Anniversary Holiday party, with poetry readings from our contributors, live music by Theresa Thor, refreshments, and a screen-print-your-own-tote station! The event is free/PWYC. We can't wait to get festive with our wonderful Winnipeg poetry community!

Announcing: the readers for our 50th Anniversary Holiday Party! We're so happy to be joined on December 19th by some of the wonderful Winnipeg-based contributors whose work appeared in CV2 this past year!

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!!

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.

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...

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!

💫”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-...

🐛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!

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...

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.

✨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!

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...

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!

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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...

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? 💫

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...

Announcing the shortlist for the People's Choice Award in the 2025 2-Day Poem Contest! Follow the link below to read the four finalists and pick your favourite! Voting closes Monday, August 11th at 11:59pm CT. 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/)

"Reach in your pocket and throw those crumbs out. Want no one. Want no home. Cramped fist. Lump of ice wedged in the throat. Wait for it to melt, or choke." #TodaysPoem #poetry No Poem for Manitoulin Island by @elisabethdem.bsky.social (2010 @cv2magazine.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yp6c4skh

I wrote a review of @josephkidney.bsky.social's Devotional Forensics for @cv2magazine.bsky.social and had a darn good time doing it. read the review here: contemporaryverse2.ca/reviews/devo...

The Foster Poetry Prize @cv2magazine.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. #amwriting

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...

✨💥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💥✨

💫 Calling all emerging poets! The 2025 Foster Poetry Prize is officially open for submissions! 💫 The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the single best poem submitted to the contest. Click the link in bio for all the details and to submit!

✨Announcing the next in CV2’s 50th Anniversary Workshop Series: a free, two-part poetry workshop with Clarise Foster and Winnipeg’s new Poet Laureate Jennifer Still!✨ Click below to learn more and to apply to join this free, two-part workshop for emerging writers✨ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Today is World Eel Day! In celebration of the eel, here is my poem "Eels," as published in the 2023 animal issue of @cv2magazine.bsky.social.  contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry/eels/ "Eels" will also appear in my book NMLCT, forthcoming in September from @ecwpress.bsky.social. Preorder available.

Grateful to have another #pantoublock in the Spring issue of @cv2magazine.bsky.social Thanks to the editorial team for supporting this piece and putting together a stellar issue!

@cv2magazine.bsky.social I randomly spotted someone use the word "milquetoast" in a reddit thread about the Jets, of all things, and thought...OMG was a hockey fan in the 2 day poem contest too? 😄

Overjoyed to have my poem “The Day Shane MacGowan Died” after Rob Taylor’s @roblucastaylor.bsky.social “Weather in Dublin” in the spring issue of CV2 @cv2magazine.bsky.social. I waited a full day to open and savour it.

Thank you @cv2magazine.bsky.social for including my poem in the Spring issue during your incredible 50th year!!! ❤️ You are so cool and such a lovely place for community and poetry 🙏🏻🕺🏻 Buy the new issue now contemporaryverse2.ca #poetryforever #vivalapoem #springpoemspring

Pleased to have a couple poems in @cv2magazine.bsky.social spring issue. Sharing one here:

✨🌸🔥 Tonight! ✨🌸🔥 Join us on Zoom as we launch our spring issue. Registration required - follow the link in our bio!

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✨🌸🔥Check out that reader list!✨🌸🔥 Tmrw! Tues Apr 29 @ 5 PT / 7 CT / 8 ET on Zoom we're launching our Spring Issue with readings by Maleeha Farooq, Van Osborne Zimrose, Andrea Scott, Misha Solomon, Shayna Stock, and Jess Tran! Register to attend (for free!) at the link in our bio! 🔥

That's all folks!! Thanks so much to all of our #2DayContest2025 participants for a fantastic event. Check back in July to hear about our prize winning poems!

Just remembered a linguistics paper I wrote ("Oh Sandy, *Sandry, *Sanny, Why-Yi-Yi-Yi: Exploring the Hypocoristic Diminutive Suffix -y under Optimality Theory") and yes, the first bit's a lyric from Grease... Thanks for memories old and new @cv2magazine.bsky.social ✌🏽😅 #2DayPoem2025 #hypocorism

hypocorism was so tough this year! such a great challenge ❤️ Words with weird rhythms/asymmetrical meters… playing with those are always fun

@cv2magazine.bsky.social finished my #2DayPoemContest poem and for the first time, wrote on a subject on my mind before I saw the words. Feeling proud of my little word baby and

The #2DayContest2025 is almost over! Are there are fun or challenging words you hope make the list for next year's contest? Let us know!