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Growing Older, Living Deeply: A National Poetry Project on Aging

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Published: 10 June 2025

The Age Collective (TAC) is a non-profit, community initiative dedicated to shifting how we think and talk about aging. Through creative storytelling and the arts, TAC aims to challenge ageist stereotypes, build intergenerational connections, and create space for older adults to feel seen, heard, and celebrated. call for poems

Their newest project, the GOLD (Growing Older, Living Deeply) Poetry Project invites older adults aged 55+ from across Canada to share original poems that explore the rich, complex, and often overlooked realities of aging.

Every few months, the project launches a new theme exploring a different aspect of aging. The current theme is Self & Identity. TAC is looking for poems that explore how identity evolves in later life—through personal growth, life transitions, shifting roles, or how you’re seen by others.

Whether it’s your first time writing or your hundredth, your voice matters! Selected poems will be featured on the TAC website and social media to highlight the depth and power of poetry in capturing the realities of aging. 

For more information and to submit a poem, click here. 

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