LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS

As our membership grows, we have been exploring ways to enable connection between members, as well as to increase visibility and findability of our members to the public. Our directory has always been searchable, but from time to time we will add specialized directories and search functions to allow members to self-identify in various ways, such as by genre or language. Additionally, we have the option for poets to identify as Black, Indigenous, LGBTQI2S+, racialized, or disabled/living with a disability.

Completing these aspects of your profile also helps our staff and Board when we are seeking poets for various opportunities! (Like jury work, events, etc.)

In 2024, we updated member profiles for increased usefulness and searchability of the following fields:

• Poet type – we have updated this field to be public for new members, but existing members will need to change the privacy of the field if desired (see below)
• Genres – these are now a drop-down list of options, so that they are easily searchable in the directory
• Language and translation – there is now a list of options to select which languages you write in, as well as a field to indicate where your work has been translated.
• League-funded opportunities – we have divided Poets in the Schools into three levels so it is searchable by grade level
• Location – we have updated the way members may make their location visible to the public (see below for more details)
• Self-identification, equity-deserving groups – we have added disabled/living with a disability to the list of options for self-identification

We highly recommend taking 15-20 minutes to sit down and review your profile with us!

To update your profile:

1.      Log in

Visit leagueofcanadianpoets.wildapricot.org to log in. If you’ve forgotten your password, simply click the “forgot password” button to reset it; it will send a link to the email address we have on file (which is this one!).

Logging in should take you directly to your profile, but if not, you can get to it by clicking on the white icon of a person in the top right (pictured below).

Several tabs make up your profile, two of which are key to your profile in our directory: Profile (farthest left) and Privacy (second from the left) (highlighted in image below).

The “Profile” tab will allow you to add and/or edit the bulk of your profile by clicking the large red “EDIT PROFILE” button near the top of the page (pictured below).

You can edit:

• Information we use internally, like your contact information, billing name, and date of birth
• Your profile information, including:
• • Directory name (First and Last name)
  • Profile picture
  • Biography
  • Languages
  • Self-identification as part of an equity-deserving group
  • Publication and awards histories
  • Genre information
  • Booking information
  • Editorial services

3.      Edit privacy settings

By default, all member contact information is set to private; however, we understand some members might like to make their city or province findable to other members. In the privacy field, you can update it so that your city and/or province to be visible by other members, or by anybody.

You will update your privacy by clicking into the “Privacy” tab and clicking the large red EDIT PROFILE button. Fields may be set as viewable by ANYBODY (public), MEMBERS (League members only, and only when signed into their own member account) or NO ACCESS (internal staff use only). (Picture below).

You may wish to make your EMAIL, CITY, and PROVINCE/STATE fields visible to members or anybody, if you would like to appear in location-based searches of our directory.

Additionally, you may wish to make your POET TYPE visible to anybody, as this provides the most basic search options between print and spoken word poets.