By Torontoist

In honour of National Poetry Month, which begins today (no foolin’), Torontoist’s in-house poetry columnist, Jacob McArthur Mooney, is curating a near-daily, month-long feature called The Optimisms Project. As articulated on Jacob’s blog, Vox Populism, the Project’s pie-in-the-sky aim is to “cobble together 25 or so poets, all under the age of 30, and give them space to express, in whatever way they choose, what makes them feel optimistic about the future of poetry in Canada. The word Optimism is pluralized in the project title for a reason; we hope to have diverse, surprising, and even contradictory hopes expressed in the same space. Submissions could be prose, poetry, general, specific, practical, fantastical, whatever.”
To get the happy-face-stamped ball rolling, Jacob has written an open letter to readers and contributors (there’s still space left for a few more poets).
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