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This summer’s Black Lives Matter protests across Canada, America and the world have driven increased public attention towards the issues of police brutality and systemic racism. However, these ongoing forms of oppression have long histories of being protested for decades. It is fitting, then, that 2020’s Poem of the Year Contest winner was “Change is a Slow Erosion” by Leah MacLean-Evans, which reminds us of how slow and seemingly quick change can take place.
Other Poem of the Year title-takers: “remedies for cross Atlantic dispersion” by Melissa Davidson won the hearts of readers this year, and Cassandra Myers’ poem “Lake Baptiste Ungenders Me” received the honourable mention.
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