St@nza ‐ May 2013 Volume 10, Number 5 To include your news, events or other listings please contact Ingel Madrus at: Email: [email protected], Phone: 416‐504‐1657, Fax: 416‐504‐0096 News from the LCP Page 1 Opportunities Page 5 New Members Page 15 Poetry & Literary News Page 4 Events & Readings Page 10 Members News Page 15 NEWS FROM THE LCP National Poetry Month National Poetry Month 2013 was an amazing success, and we have a lot of people to thank for the support! My Bindi, Literature for life, The Literary Press Group, The Canadian Library Association, and many others helped us to spread the word about National Poetry Month. 2013 marked the fifteenth year of National Poetry Month in Canada, and has been one of our most successful celebrations yet! Throughout April, poets were out in libraries, schools, pubs, community centres and on the street celebrating poetry. There were a huge number of poetry readings and spoken word events; workshops were given in many different cities to teach new poets how to get started; and there has been a huge number of amazing online poetry projects that have been started up. Each year, the Mayor’s Poetry City Challenge is extended to cities across the country. This year, the challenge was enthusiastically taken on by city councils in Victoria BC, Nanaimo BC, Vancouver BC, Whistler BC, New Westminster BC, Nelson, BC, Jasper AB, Grand Prairie AB, Edmonton AB, Calgary AB, Lloydminster AB/SK, North Battleford SK, Saskatoon SK, Creighton SK, Moose Jaw SK, Regina SK, Bruce Rice; Yorkton SK, Dauphin MB, Winnipeg MB, London ON, Brantford ON, Norfolk County ON, Cobourg ON, Guelph ON, Toronto ON, Fredericton NB, Caraquet NB, Sackville NB, Halifax NS, New Glasgow NS, Charlottetown PE and St. John’s NF. We can't wait for next year! For more info: http://poets.ca/wordpress/mayor%E2%80%99s‐poetry‐city‐challenge/ Call for Jurors for the Raymond Souster, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Awards One of the main tasks at the annual LCP Poetry Festival and Conference is to elect the people who will serve on the juries for the Raymond Souster, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Awards. Full members not attending the conference are still welcome to stand for election. Each jury consists of three jurors and one alternate. There are between 60 and 80 books submitted for each award. Juries begin receiving the books in October and must have a shortlist of 6 (which includes the winner) and juror’s comments by March 1, 2014. All correspondence between jurors is via email and occasional teleconferences as needed. If you are interested and available during that timeframe please email Ingel at [email protected]. Please provide a link to your member’s page, personal website or attach a brief bio to the email. LAST CALL: LCP Poetry Festival & Conference 2013 in Toronto Plans for the League of Canadian Poets’ (LCP) 47th annual Poetry Festival and Conference are under way. This exciting three‐day event is scheduled for June 7 ‐ 9, 2013, conveniently located in downtown Toronto at the Courtyard by Marriott at College and Yonge. THURSDAY: Meet and mingle at the PoeTrain documentary launch at Q Space (382 College St.) on Thursday at 8 p.m. (TBC) *Thursday: The LCP Poetry Festival and Conference overlaps with the MagNet Conference at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel. LCP members are welcome to attend the Connecting Canada Networking Reception on Thursday, 1 June 6, 5:00 p.m. Connecting Canada: Canada’s magazine media will unite for the networking event of the season as every MagNet partner (CMC, CSME, PWAC and Magazines Canada) welcomes industry professionals from all disciplines and from all parts of Canada and abroad The MagNet receptions, including the Connecting Canada reception are free. Please register as an LCP guest. FRIDAY: 12:30 ‐ 1:30 p.m. Welcome Lunch 2:00 ‐ 3:00 p.m. Feminist Caucus Panel: "fe(males): dialogues, exchanges & conversations". Women Poets and Their Male Poet Mentors who supported our womanhood, Feminist Poetics, and writing; about how they have been helped in their writing careers. 3:00 ‐ 4:00 p.m. Feminist Caucus Business Meeting (all welcome) 4:00 ‐ 5:00 p.m. Associate Members Meeting and Reception 5:00 ‐ 6:00 p.m. The Joseph Sherman Memorial New Members Reading 7:00 p.m. Frame For (A)Frame: A benefit premiere of the independent Canadian feature film “The Shape of Rex” in support of the Al Purdy A frame. All proceeds are for the ongoing restoration of the A Frame as a writers’ retreat. The Royal Cinema, 608 College St. Tickets for screening and party ‐ $15.00 at the door. * MagNet events on Friday: For LCP members who might be interested in participating in some of the events and workshops on Friday, we are including the link to the MagNet Conference. LCP Members will receive the discounted Member Rate, just please check “Other” in the Registration Form, and then enter League of Canadian Poets in the next field. Visit: http://magnet.magazinescanada.ca/overview/?page=29. SATURDAY: 9:00 a.m. ‐ 12:30 p.m. Annual General Meeting 12:30 ‐ 2:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 ‐ 3:00 p.m. Electronic Poetry Panel. Moderator: D.C. Reid 3:15 ‐ 4:15 p.m. Spoken Word Panel. Moderator: Ian Ferrier 4:15 ‐ 5:15 p.m. Feminist Caucus Reading (all welcome) 5:30 ‐ 6:30 p.m. Anne Szumigalski Lecture presented by A.F. Moritz 6:30 ‐ 10:00 p.m. Raymond Souster, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards ceremony and dinner SUNDAY: 2:00 p.m. Book Launch at Q Space (382 College St.). Details about how to register will be sent to all the members who register for the conference. For more info: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs‐2/lcp‐ annual‐poetry‐festival‐and‐conference/ News from the Feminist Caucus By Anne Burke, Chair. Congratulations to the Lowther Award Finalists. We honour poets, poetry, and publishers, with the long list here. This month, our annual report, updates on our 2013 panel and launch of Poetry and the Disordered Mind; news from Canadian Women in the Literary Arts (CWILA); Women and Words, Summer Writing Week, with Jenna Butler, Jannie Edwards, and Sherri D Wilson; and When Worlds Collide is actively seeking poets! For full report: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs‐2/feminist‐ caucus Looking for Tech‐Savvy Person Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a tech‐savvy person with a smart phone and computer screen, so that during the Panel on Electronic Poetry at the AGM we can connect with Rebecca Banks who I believe lives in Ottawa, with enough volume to pipe her voice in on a computer to join us during the panel and so we can hear her and she us, and be a cyberhead on the computer at our end. I am guessing she needs the same set up at her end. But right now, I need someone who knows how to do this. I don't have a smart 2 phone, hence my request. If anyone can do this, please get in touch with me directly. Thanks. DC Reid: [email protected] / 1‐250‐592‐1700 How Bill C‐11, the Copyright Modernization Act, affects the writer By Kelly‐Anne Riess. Access Copyright payments to creators will likely be reduced after last November’s enactment of the Copyright Modernization Act. Bill C‐11 extended the list of fair dealing exceptions to “educational purposes.” This means that • Anyone claiming an education purpose could arguably copy substantial parts of copyright‐ protected literary works without permission or payment. • Educational institutions and ministries will argue they do not have to pay Access Copyright for collective licenses to enable teachers and students to legally copy materials. • If Access Copyright is not paid for licenses, then its annual payments to creator and publisher affiliates will be much lower. Access advises that 80 per cent of its revenues come from ministries of education and educational institutions. Further, Access Copyright predicts it will need to vigorously litigate the fairness of the taking of copyright works under the educational purposes exception. Since “educational purposes” is conceivably much broader than the existing “private study” exception, multiple copies for classroom use may be argued to be fair. Therefore, writers and publishers alike could lose significant income. ACCESS COPYRIGHT MADE EASY—SIX THINGS ALL WRITERS SHOULD KNOW 1. Access Copyright distributes two types of royalties: Title specific and non‐title specific. 2. Title‐specific royalties are paid out using data collected from organizations that have Access Copyright licences. Title‐specific royalties related to trade books are shared equally between authors and publishers even if your publisher contract says something different. In the case of textbooks and academic journals, 100 per cent can go to the publisher only if the creator has assigned copyright to the publisher and the publisher has notified Access Copyright. Otherwise Access Copyright will pay the writer 50 per cent. On title‐specific works, freelance journalists who write for magazines and newspapers receive 100 per cent of all royalties. Staff writers of magazines and newspapers receive zero per cent. (www.accesscopyright.ca/creators/how‐we‐ split‐royalties‐between‐creators‐and‐publishers/) 3. Fifty per cent of all the non‐title specific royalties are paid out annually through Payback to writers and visual artists. Additionally, since 2010, Payback has been topped up with a 15% allocation from all available royalties before these other royalties are distributed. 4. If your work is out of print, let Access Copyright know, and 100 per cent of title‐specific payments will then go to you.