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CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨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!

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · Aug 6

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...

A purple graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Fiction Contest. From top to bottom the graphic says: Spin the tale only you can tell. Enter our 2025 Fiction Contest. Deadline September 2, 2025! Enter via Submittable. Judged by Anuja Varghese. $2000 Prize plus publication. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/contest/fiction or email fiddlehd@unb.ca. In the background is a picture of loop of purple rope and in the lower right corner is a picture of Anuja Varghese.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us for the launch, featuring readings from our contributors, on Thursday, April 28th, at 7pm central, on Zoom. Free to attend, but registration is required, here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CV2 Summer Issue Zoom Launch August 28th. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CV2 Summer Issue Zoom Launch August 28th. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

You’ll notice that poets in both 1981 and 2025 write about the sea. You’ll note that poets will never stop writing about the moon. We’ve given the poets past the first word and the poets present the last, but it’s not over: our fall issue will share more archival poems, beginning with the year 2000.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

As you move through the issue, you’ll read one archival CV2 poem, followed the new work of a poet, and so on. You’ll find poems by Emily Riddle, Bob Hicok, and Frances Boyle sitting right snug up against poems by bpNichol, Bronwen Wallace, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the founder of CV2, Dorothy Livesay.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

Beginning with our first year of operation, 1975, all the way up to the dawn of the new millennium, 1999, we received the kind permission of twenty-five CV2 poets past, their family members, and publishers, to share their work again.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

This issue is the result of a special project undertaken to celebrate CV2’s 50th anniversary. Longtime CV2 editor Clarise Foster rejoined our team to help select one poem from each of CV2’s first twenty-five years of operation, to republish alongside the new work that we share in all our issues.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

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!

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · Aug 15

I am so grateful to CV2 for this delightful lexical challenge. And to the friends who encouraged and wrote alongside me. And to Hollie Adams who selected my strange animal- and grief-filled poem as the winner.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Submit here: contemporaryverse2.ca/foster-poetr...

ID: Text graphic with a dark green background and the following text in a pink font. Text: The 2025 edition of the Foster Poetry Prize is open for submissions. Early bird deadline: October 1. Final deadline: November 1.

The Foster Poetry Prize – Contemporary Verse 2

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CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s true! Submit by our October 1st Early Bird deadline and you can increase your chances of winning the grand prize of $1000 & publication in CV2, at no extra cost! After October 1st, additional entries will cost $16 each.

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

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? 💫

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 6

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 2025 2-Day Poem Contest People’s Choice Award! – Contemporary Verse 2

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CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

and we will be re-publishing the corrected review in print in our winter 2026 issue, which will appear in January 2026.

Follow the link in our bio to read and/or download the corrected review, along with a detailed correction of the previous version of the review. (5/5)

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

We are sincerely disappointed in ourselves for having missed these errors before the issue in which they appeared went to print, and we’re grateful to have the opportunity to correct them now. A corrected version of this review is now available as a free, downloadable pdf on our website [...] (4/)

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

[...] with her time and attention in helping us correct them. We know that the work and vigilance she and others undertake in order to correct and prevent errors like these from proliferating is exhausting, and we are truly sorry for having added to this load. (3/)

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

We want to express our sincere apologies to the authors whose names were misused in this review, as well as to anyone who was negatively affected by these errors. We’d also like to share our gratitude to Yilin Wang for bringing these errors to our attention and for being extremely generous[...] (2/)

CV2 Magazine @cv2magazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

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/)

ID: Text graphic with a beige background and the following text in a black font. Text: We made a mistake. Our spring 2025 issue featured a review of Yilin Wang’s book The Lantern and the Night Moths, in which the names of five Chinese authors were used incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for our oversight in publishing these errors, and thank Yilin for bringing them to our attention and helping us correct them. A corrected version of the review is now available on our website, and will also be reprinted in our winter 2026 issue. Head to the link in our bio to read it.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Jul 29

"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

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chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social · Jul 2

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...

Devotional Forensics – Contemporary Verse 2

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