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One week left in our summer reading period! Send us your poetry in place 📝🗺️📍

Submission Guidelines //// Where we are shapes who we are. The four invisible lines of north, east, south and west have tangible impacts on

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If you camped July away, like me, and couldn't send in a submission, I've got good news; the summer reading period has been extended until August 31st! So, send us those camping poems now (our any poem responding to or rooted in a place)!

Submission Guidelines //// Where we are shapes who we are. The four invisible lines of north, east, south and west have tangible impacts on

#poetry in place #poetry #four lines #submissions open #lit mag

We are now open for #submissions for our summer reading period! It is open until July 31st. You don't have to limit yourself to just four lines anymore, so here's a bit about what we're looking for:

Where we are shapes who we are. The four invisible lines of north, east, south and west have tangible impacts on our lives. We are looking for poems that exemplify this: poetry in place. Poems that are rooted in the earth. Poems that embody home. Poems that could only happen where you are right now.

Submission Guidelines //// Where we are shapes who we are. The four invisible lines of north, east, south and west have tangible impacts on

#poetry #poetry in place #four lines #lit mag #submissions open

Well, this school year was more intense than most and I, unfortunately, did not have time to keep up with this.

Now that summer is here, four lines is back! Here are the winners from our last challenge! Check out the new art for each piece on our revamped website as well:

4 Line Challenges

elements of genocide //// t.letkeman

This poem is designed to be read in any order. If you cross through the center to read the next line, add the 'and' between them.

#four lines #poetry #poem #heat

The next quarterly challenge is here: heat!

Summer is the time of heat and it's only getting hotter: heat domes smashing records, wild fires everywhere. The earth is heating up: permafrost and glaciers melting at record paces. Can you handle the heat? Is a hot day under the sun heaven or sweaty, oppressive torture?

Mild, medium, or hot? Spice is the spice of life! Do you need heat with what you eat?

Turn up the heat! Across the world people are turning up the heat on their governments and societies, confronting injustice and oppression. Who needs to feel the heat to make change happen?

What are your four lines on heat? Send them to me @

Submission Guidelines //// Represent the essence or spirit of something in a four line† poem. You can be concrete: an animal, vegetable, pe

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the break of day //// h.openshaw

#four lines #poetry #poem #flux

my breath //// r.joshi

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The #winter winners are here! Just in time for summer...

WINTER////2021////1

#four lines #poetry #quarterly challenge #winter

As a Canadian publication, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the grief and pain that the discovery of a mass grave of 215 indigenous children at the former Kamloops residential school brings to those families and residential school survivors across the country. It is heartbreaking in and of itself, but is all the worse knowing systemic inequity and racism still exist in our society today.

We want do more than make a token gesture and move on with our normal routine. We commit to representing all voices in the poetry we publish and to furthering the cause of reconciliation and equity in our country through educating ourselves and advocating for others to do the same. Please visit the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation online (nctr.ca) to learn about the history of residential schools and the calls to action made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

#truth and reconciliation #215 children #kamloops residential school #every child matters

//// j.boelhower

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a request //// legrade

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dawn //// r.joshi

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Assiniboine //// t.letkeman

For Earth Day, a poem about the river that runs through the little patch of Earth I live on. What poems do you see on your little patch of Earth?

#four lines #poetry #poem #earth day

//// a.b.turner

#four lines #poetry #poem #FLUX

flux //// t.letkeman

#four lines #art #sketch #FLUX

After talking time off for Easter, the next quarterly challenge is here: FLUX

Our world is in flux; our sense of normal is in flux; always in flux the future is. What are your four lines on flux, on change, on flow, on fluidity?

Challenge open until July 4th. Send me your lines @

Submission Guidelines //// Represent the essence or spirit of something in a four line sketch or poem. You can be concrete: an animal, vege

#four lines #poetry #quarterly challenge #flux

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