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Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters
@vallummag.bsky.social
Poetry and poetry workshops. Based in Tio'htiá:ke/Montreal.
Another Longue Durée by Ian Cappelli, winner of the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award, is available in both print and digital formats. We’re pleased to share this exceptional work. Only 125 numbered copies are available in print, so be sure to get yours soon.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Enjoy the selected poem Resting (Not Sleeping), from Postal Work or, Day After Day by Edie Reaney Chunn, winner of 2nd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award. It’s already live on our website: vallummag.com/resting-not-...
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Enjoy the selected poem Luckett Creek, 2010, from Weathering Pen by Laura Amsel, winner of 3rd place in the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award. It’s already live on our website: vallummag.com/luckett-cree...
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Poems from the Crowd open for submissions!

Submissions are accepted from October 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.

There is no fee to submit your work.

Submit up to 3 poems, max 60 lines each.

GOOD LUCK!

Check the guidelines and submit via the link: vallum.submittable.com/submit/33753...
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Visit our website vallummag.com/featured-rev... to read a full Featured Review The Waste Land Project reviewed by George Elliott Clarke
September 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem A GOOGLE MAPS VIEW OF THE HOUSE
WHERE I GREW UP by John Barton.
September 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We are honored to share this important and powerful chapbook. The Waste Land Project by Madhur Anand, Alex Averbuch, Erin Robinsong, A. F. Moritz, Halyna Kruk, and Iryna Shuvalova is now available in print and digital formats.

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September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem IF YOUR DREAMS ARE ENDING by Elana Wolff.
July 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Vallum is so pleased to congratulate the winners of this year’s Chapbook Award!

Winner: Ian Cappelli – Another Longue Durée

2nd place: Edie Chunn – Postal Work or, Day After Day

3rd place: Laura Amsel – Weathering Pen

Congratulations to all three poets for their outstanding work.
July 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We’re honoured to share the shortlist for the 2025 Vallum Chapbook Award.
Each manuscript: a world. Each poet: a force.

Thank you to all who submitted.
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem CAUGHT by Angeline Schellenberg.
June 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
*Poems from the Crowd* is now available!

Explore the poems of contemporary
poets for the donation price of $2 CDN (in digital format).

We’ve also published a limited print edition of 100 copies for this first issue of the series: Summer 2025. ($8)

Happy reading!

vallummag.com/product/poem...
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem SKATEBOARD from a chapbook by Thurston Moore and John Kinsella.
April 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem MORNING by Jeffrey Mackie
March 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Thank you for submitting your work for consideration to the "Poems from the Crowd" series!
We received over 300 submissions from the lovely crowd that you are! Unfortunately, if you
have not been contacted yet it means your submission was not chosen this time around.
Thank you again!
March 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem PABLO PICASSO VISITS JAMES JOYCE AND THEY DISCUSS YOUTH
by Michael Mirolla
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Discover an insightful conversation:
Interview by T. Liem with Ockert Greeff, Winner of the 2024 Vallum Chapbook Award (No. 39)

Read the full interview at vallummag.com/interview-by...
January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Check out our Poem in Re-view section featuring the great poem Prelude by Jan Zwicky
January 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Vallum's Chapbook Award/Contest for 2025 is now officially open!

Check out the contest guidelines vallummag.com/guidelines-c... and send us your best work. We look forward to reading it!
January 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hello to all our friends!

Another year is coming to an end, fraught with many difficulties and challenges across the world. Hopefully, we may find some solace in poetry.

We wish you all good holidays and a renewed spirit for the new year!
December 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
An Inked Shorthand of Marks
T. Liem in conversation with Jami Macarty

Read full interview at vallummag.com/an-inked-sho...
December 11, 2024 at 4:40 PM