Welcome to the CPA's Social Network PARTICIPOET! This site is for Canadian Poetry Association Members & OutReach Members Only. Friends of members can 'try out ' this site for 48 hours. If they wish to become a CPA member during this time then they can proceed to the CPA Official Website and fill out the membership form. We have PayPal. PayPal will notify us immediately and your friend(s) will be reinstated as a CPA member and can use this site to its full potential.

Dear members please feel free to add interesting topics to the blog, forum and groups. Each member has their own page where they can add photos, music, gadgets &widgets (they are easy to install). Enjoy yourself and take the time to get to know each other.

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Canadian Poetry Association PARTICIPOET GOES LIVE

The internet is filled with forums, journals, blogs and spaces, some of which intersect the world of crime fiction, some that live fully within it. What's missing is a hub, a central meeting place, a bar of sorts, a place for us to share our passion for poetry. Until now, the internet has had no substitute for the bar at Saxby’s, Old Triangles pub, Laundromat bar or CPA Fest! I'm hoping I can turn Participoet into that bar. Virtually.

You’ve all heard of Myspace, but you may not have heard of Ning. Ning is the new daddy, the mothership of Myspace. It allows you to create mini-spaces within it, much like whole Myspaces themselves, with whatever theme you can think of.

And that’s what Participoet is: Myspace for lovers of poetry.

You may already be familiar with some of the members, who include authors like Joe Blades, David Fraser, Karl Stuart Kline, K.V. Skene, Susan Ioannou, Linda Crosfield, Lini Grol, Eric Michaud and the list goes on, growing every day.

The hope is to fill Participoet with established authors and up-and-comers, occasional readers and committed fans of the genre, the idea being to connect us all. To share a drink at a virtual bar, to schmooze, booze and draw up plans for the heist to end all heists. To find new authors to delve into, discuss the latest in poetry, markets, share photos, videos and make some friends.

PARTICIPOET: A place for poetry readers, writers and lovers.

Pull up a chair at the bar and share your poison.
http://canadianpoetryassociation.ning.com/

Donna Allard
Creator Of PARTICIPOET.NiNG.com



Canadian poet Donna Allard has been a musician, Special Olympics coach, small press owner, webmaster, served on national and provincial boards.A computer geek, Donna has been working on computers since 1984. Her poetry has appeared in POEMATA Magazine, several newspapers, chapbooks, anthologies and poetry websites. She also maintains the Canadian Poetry Association social networking site, Participoet, among other websites.