The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word began as a small festival in Ottawa in 2004. At that time, it was dubbed the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics. The first festival included six teams of poets and a small number of guests in attendance. In just nine short years, the festival grew from …
The 2019-2020 Writers Read Concordia season emphasizes the local, the influencers, the activist, the transformative, the conversation and the collaborative impulses. Co-sponsored with the School for Canadian Irish Studies, Writers Read Concordia presents Doireann Ní Ghríofa and LeAnne Howe for an evening of Irish and Choctaw poetry, followed by a …
Join the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and the League of Canadian Poets for a reading by five Nova Scotian members of the League of Canadian Poets: Janet Barkhouse, Deirdre Dwyer, Chad Norman, Anne Simpson, and Margo Wheaton. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be …