Canadian Poetry: An Electronic Resource is edited by D.M.R. Bentley. This site features a press, a journal, and a Canadian poetry resource directory among other archives.

“The Canadian Poetry Press was founded in 1986 for the purposes of publishing scholarly editions of early Canadian long poems. Since then the Press has expanded its mandate to include editions of the work of the Confederation poets and critical studies of Canadian poetry.”

“Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews is a refereed journal devoted to the study of poetry from all periods in Canada. It is published twice yearly, in the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter…. Its first issue was published in 1977.”

Explore also Canadian Poets:An Annotated List of Resources on the Web, featuring Notable Contemporary Canadian Poets, Confederation Poets, Journals and Literary Databases, compiled and reviewed by Julia C. Obert.

University of Western Ontario, London,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/

Colin Morton is a poet, fiction writer, and teacher, now experimenting with video poetry (“Primiti Too Taa” with Ed Ackerman) and having a life in Ottawa. His most recent poetry collections are Coastlines of the Archipelago (Buschekbooks) and Dance, Misery (Seraphim).

“Dance, Misery dives into the crowds of history, the great “us” as we stand sometimes in awe, sometimes in fear. Facing the Unknown Soldier, the London Blitz, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Colin Morton has the rare ability to think his way through a poem, setting a series of small fires in our brains, the language not only pleasing us with its careful rhythms but igniting our spirits as well, making us realize how integral we are to the planet’s survival, to the dream of amplitude and peace.”—Barry Dempster

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cmorton/

“ANIMATION SOUND POETRY DANCE THEATRE EXTRAVAGANZA. Conceived and Directed by Kate Alton and Ross Manson. Based on poetry of the Four Horsemen: Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, and bpNichol. Starring Jennifer Dahl, Graham McKelvie, Noako Murakoshi, and Andrea Nann.”

“What is a poem? In the 1970s, four Canadian sound poets turned the literary world on its ear. Now, director Ross Manson and choreographer Kate Alton have teamed up to bring us a playful tribute to the poetry of The Four Horsemen and a cheeky love-in with the swinging seventies. An outtasight, multi-media extravaganza with dance, song, video and animation that everyone can dig! So far out, it’s back in.”

Date: Running: March 13 - April 1, 2007,
Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC), Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.gctc.ca/seasons/06-07/horsemen.html

“Each issue of the magazine is a strangely convergent collection of fiction, non-fiction, photographs, comix, reviews, little-known facts of interest, a bit of poetry and the legendary Geist crossword puzzle, all of which explore the lines between fiction and non-fiction, and which take a new look at the imaginary country we all inhabit from time to time, which often has something to do with Canada.”

And Geist delivers: check out Haiku Night in Canada and Home Sweet Haiku.

Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.geist.com/

“Kegedonce Press is a Native owned and operated company based at Neyaashiinigmiing, on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. We are committed to our guiding vision of publishing and promoting works of the Indigenous writers of Turtle Island and supporting the enterprise of Indigenous artists, graphic illustrators, designers, editors, printers and others in related fields….”

“Kegedonce Press is one of only three established Aboriginal publishers in Canada, one of only two that publishes Aboriginal writers as general operations (the other specializes in Metis writing). Narrowing the field further, Kegedonce Press is the only Aboriginal publishing company in Ontario, the only Aboriginal publisher committed to publishing poetry and the only one with a commitment and experience in developing international markets.”

Neyaashiinigmiing or Georgetown,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.kegedonce.com/

The Max Middle Sound Project has been described as “earnest avoidance of shock and awe spectacle or just plain egregious unruliness.”

Here you can find poetry recordings, some vispo, and Max Middle’s blog.

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.maxmiddle.com/

“Mental Health Poetry through ‘Mind Your Words’ invites you to contribute to an exciting project that brings the art of mental health to life.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.mentalhealthpoetry.org

“This year’s theme is …. Poetry: Future (In)tense. What will poetry sound like in the future? What is a techno-poem? How will poetry fuse with other art forms like theatre or music? Instead of science-fiction, what would science-poetry sound like? …”

“Established in Canada in April 1999 by the League of Canadian Poets, National Poetry Month brings together schools, publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, and poets across the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in Canada’s culture. Communities and businesses participate through readings, festivals, book displays, and other events.”

• Young Poets’ Week Initiatives: April 9-15th 2007
• Canada Poetry Fact Sheet
• Events Calendar

Date: April 2007: readings and events across Canada
Canada
http://www.poets.ca/linktext/npm.htm

“Poets Against War Canada seeks to engage poets and readers of all kinds in creating a unified public voice against war, tyranny and oppression.”

Post poems in English or French online and participate in online forum.

List to audio-file of interview between poets Jeffrey Mackie (100 Poets against War) and Sandra Stephenson (poetsagainstwar.ca).

Date: ongoing Peace Poetry Jams in various location in Canada and around the world
Canada
http://www.poetsagainstwar.ca/

“A 3 minute film by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton.”

“The film ‘Primiti Too Taa’ is at the intersection of many forms. It is a playful Concrete poem. A literal choreography. It is primitive sounds meeting their typed representation. The film is in memory of Kurt Schwitters. The film follows in the footsteps of Kurt Schwitters, with an influence of Norman Mclaren in its animated presentation.”

View poem online at the Zed Gallery.

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.primititootaa.com/

“On the bioregional E-mail list someone asked the following question:’I would be interested in hearing from any readers of this list who consider themselves more or less serious students of bioregionalism, what you think are the key or essential pieces of bioregional literature. What are the core, or definitive works? What are some of the more recent works that seem to offer promise in further developing the bioregional paradigm? What scholarly journals are sympathetic to bioregional perspectives?’”

Here are the responses.

International
http://www.sustainable-city.org/books/canon.htm

“This guide is meant to provide some initial bibliographical assistance to those who want to study the historical evolution of ecological thinking in Canada on the basis of poetry.”—Norbert Platz (Trier, April 2002)

Includes a list of anthologies.

Trier,  Germany
http://www.uni-trier.de/platz2/greend/canada/index.html

Hundreds of new online rhyming poems for everyone, but especially children, with voice recordings, by Yorkshire writer, Josie Whitehead. From this site, access lesson plans, articles, games and crafts for children, and Skype visits from Josie.

Yorkshire,  U.K. (England)
http://www.whiteheadm.co.uk/html/josies_poetry.htm

“Everything you wanted to know about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard (and lots more besides).”

U.K. (Scotland)
http://www.robertburns.org/

“American Tanka is a literary print journal devoted to English-language tanka…. We publish beautifully-crafted tanka from both well-known and new poets, featuring one poem per page in order to allow the reader to focus upon the single tanka and the moment it expresses.”

See A Tanka Bibliography for both books of Japanese tanka translated into English and books of English-language tanka.

United States
http://www.americantanka.com

“Eco Books is an on-line, mail order bookstore. We feature books on a wide range of ecological issues.” Here is the Eco Books catalog of Ecological Literature and Criticism.

Hammondsport, New York,  United States
http://www.ecobooks.com/catalogs/literature.htm

“John Campion is the founder of the Ecotropic movement, which holds that for human culture to be healthy it must exist as in an ecological niche and thereby re-late appropriately with all the fields of forces. His poetry art, philosophy, and criticism reflect ecotropic values.”

Learn more about Ecotropic Works, the Medusa Project and other poetry projects at World a Tuning Fork.

Oakland, California,  United States
http://worldatuningfork.com/John/

“This site has been created by the students of Introduction to Literature: Poetry (English 210) at Goshen College in the fall of 2004 and 2005. The poets indexed on this page are writers from the United States and Canada whose work appears in A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry, edited by Ann Hostetler (University of Iowa Press 2003). Eventually other poets from Mennonite contexts will be listed on this page.”

Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana,  United States
http://www.goshen.edu/mennonitepoetry/Home

The annual Robert Frost Poetry festival is held in “Key West, Florida on the grounds of the Heritage House Museum, the Robert Frost Cottage and select Key West venues.”

“The festival features poetry and haiku workshops, poetry and haiku readings, an art & film event and an international poetry and haiku contest.”

Date: Next festival: April 9 - 13, 2008
Key West, Florida,  United States
http://www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.com/

“Storytelling. At base that is what American Indian authors and poets are doing — storytelling.” —Jace Weaver in Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture.

This site at hanksville.org compiled by Karen M. Strom trails authors through an alphabetical index, a tribal index, and a podcast.

United States
http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/

“The Raven Chronicles publishes work which reflects the cultural diversity of the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and other areas of America. We promote art, literature and the spoken word for an audience that is hip, literate, funny, informed, and lives in a society that has a multicultural sensibility. We publish fiction, talk art/spoken word, poetry, essays, reflective articles, reviews, interviews and contemporary art. We look for work that reflects the author’s experiences, perceptions and insights.”

A print magazine with online features, such as nature writing, the northwest, beyond borders and a new forum, or “sandbox”, for emerging writers. Check out their northwest writer’s index and their events calendar.

Seattle, Washington,  United States
http://www.ravenchronicles.org/

“But what would a non-expressive poetry look like? A poetry of intellect rather than emotion? One in which the substitutions at the heart of metaphor and image were replaced by the direct presentation of language itself, with “spontaneous overflow” supplanted by meticulous procedure and exhaustively logical process? In which the self-regard of the poet’s ego were turned back onto the self-reflexive language of the poem itself? So that the test of poetry were no longer whether it could have been done better (the question of the workshop), but whether it could conceivably have been done otherwise.”—Craig Douglas Dworkin, from his introduction to the online anthology

United States
http://www.ubu.com/concept/

“… acknowledged web-wide as the definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry.” Among its many offerings are The UbuWeb :: Anthology of Conceptual Writing and UbuWeb : Ethnopoetics. Grok the manifesto.

United States
http://www.ubu.com/