Lisa Richter

  • Longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize

    Longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize

    Today, I finally got to publicly share this incredible news: my entry for the 2015 CBC Poetry Prize, a suite of poems entitled “Where the Old Road Begins,” has made the longlist! I worked hard on these poems, inspired by a mysterious photo album discovered one summer day in Trinity Bellwoods Park in downtown Toronto,…

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  • Voices for Diversity and Social Justice available now

    I am deeply honoured to have my poem, “Breaking the Ice,” which was based on my experiences teaching ESL to immigrant women in the Regent Park community of Toronto, Ontario, featured in this new anthology, published by Rowman and Littlefield in the U.S. The anthology itself is a great read, full of poetry and personal…

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  • New social justice anthology available for pre-order

    I am pleased to announce that Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: A Literary Education Anthology, which will include my poem “Breaking the Ice,” is now available for pre-order on the publisher’s website and on Amazon, both in hardcover and paperback editions. The editors have told me it will be going to print in June! So…

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  • A Typewriter in Flames

    “A typewriter in flames is the metaphor here. To work in a medium which can be, has been, used as an instrument of trivialization and deceit, not to mention colonization…is different from working in a medium like stone, clay, paint, charcoal, even iron or steel. A poet cannot refuse language, but the poet can re-fuse…

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