💫”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!

Sigh. Got a poem written for @cv2magazine.bsky.social's 2-Day/10 words poetry contest. Burned dinner. Bottom of the pot is positively sable. Poetry can be SO disruptive!

Seven hours to go. I came up with three ideas and thought, "Hey, I'll just write them all and decide which one is best." I'm still on idea one, of course, so here's hoping it's the best. Time runs out at 6 a.m. for me. It's going to be an all-nighter. @cv2magazine.bsky.social #2daypoemcontest

@cv2magazine.bsky.social done! Phew ! This was a tough one. #2DayPoemContest2025 #2DayPoem2025

What I thought was a decent draft yesterday feels like a hot mess this morning. It's like going to a party and then waking up the next morning like 🥴. Grateful for the full day to fix this. @cv2magazine.bsky.social #2daypoemcontest

Took a break this afternoon to play with these two in the back yard, and somehow got the same pose out of both.

Puck is feeling milquetoasty on the sofa. But he’s reminding me not to use nonsense meanings or words modified to other parts of speech.

This weekend is my first ever crack at @cv2magazine.bsky.social's 2 Day Poem Contest! I think I've got a whole fruit bowl of global melancholy cooking right now for my entry; so, yeah, it's a blast! #2DayPoem2025

Walter (dog) and Pip (cat), I love them to pieces but they aren’t super enthusiastic about my writing thus far and are way to calm about the encroaching deadline.

Never occurred to me what a funny compound "milquetoast" is until I looked up its etymology #2DayPoem2025

More hinderance than help. He keeps my blood pressure down, but demands that I type with one hand. Favourite hypocorisms include Bui-boy, my beamish boy, and occasionally, Jerkface.