You’re invited to the launch of the Summer 2025 issue!
Featuring beautiful, Winnipeg-summer-celebratory cover photography by Julio César Assis, this expanded issue is a very special one, unlike anything else we’ve ever published.
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. Beginning with our first year, 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.
As you move through the issue, you’ll read one archival CV2 poem, followed by 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. You’ll notice that poets in 1981 liked to write about the sea, and that poets in 2025 also like to write about the sea. You’ll note, without surprise, that poets will never stop writing about the moon. You’ll notice that we’ve given the poets past the first word, the poets present the last. But it’s not the end: our fall 2025 issue, the final issue of this special 50th anniversary year, will share another batch of archival poems, beginning with the year 2000. Stay tuned.
As our 50th birthday-year passes its midpoint, we’re so excited to be sharing this very special issue, which we’ll be launching on Thursday, April 28th, at 7pm central, on Zoom. Free to attend, but registration is required. Register here!