On November 20th, join Tāriq Malik for an energizing online workshop where he challenges you to push the boundaries of what language and image can do. After sharing innovative poems from his new collection, Exit Wounds (out now through Caitlin Press!), Tāriq will guide you through genre-bending exercises that connect visual and poetic forms. …
Join us for the next event of Tree Reading Series for 2022-2023 season. Tree is excited to welcome featured readers Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Dilruba Ahmed. Readers Elee Kraljii Gardiner is an author, editor, and creative mentor whose award-winning books of poetry include Trauma Head, which investigates the experience of vertebral artery dissection …
“Poetry,” Laurent Dubreuil writes, “suggests thinking experiments for the unthinkable.” How might we communicate experience in our poems when the meaning of an experience, even to us, seems less than clear? How can we invoke in our poems those encounters whose intensity exceeds language? What is meant by “thinking on …
A series of seven classes, delivered weekly from April 22 to June 3, by members of the North Sea Poets: Kathleen Jamie, Niall Campbell, Karen Solie, Don Paterson, Lisa Brockwell, John Glenday, and Leslie Harrison. – Classes will run between 90 minutes and two hours long, and students will have …
Register for a unique chance to learn from Griffin Poetry Prize winner and trustee Karen Solie in the North Sea Poets webinar series! Time and the Figurative with Karen Solie “How — with no preparation — can this singular, short-lived event constituted by the appearance of an unusual poetic image, …
Admission: $15 / Free for Indigenous participants Register: Here The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present a workshop by writer-in-residence Erín Moure. On the workshop, Moure says: Translation is a performance that is incorporated, that stems from a textual flow through a body already socially, culturally and ideologically constituted (and …
This Masterclass is an extraordinary double-bill, featuring two icons of contemporary Canadian poetry. Canisia Lubrin is the author of the multi-award-winning Code Noir and The World After Rain, a poetry collection epic in its vision and intimate in its exploration of grief and loss. Jillian Christmas is a spoken word poet, author of The Gospel of Breaking, and …