The Al Purdy house on Roblin Lake near Ameliasburgh, Ontario is now the site of the A-Frame Residency Program, under which writers are offered a time and place to work in a location that is attractive and of historic significance. Each year between mid-April and mid-November the house will be …
Toronto Poetry Project is partnering with the International Festival of Authors and the British Council in Canada to launch the Festival’s first Poetry Slam! Like Toronto Poetry Project’s usual events at the Drake Hotel, anyone can perform on the mic in the two-round slam. This high-energy poetry concert will showcase …
England's most northerly town stages again a celebration of books and authors. Dozens of talks, workshops and other events will be presented at venues all over Berwick upon Tweed, with something for everyone, from children to adult readers, from budding writers to history buffs. Learn more here. Return to the …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
The Print Room officially opened in September 2010 in a converted graphic design studio and printing warehouse on Hereford Road. So far, they have presented six seasons of work comprising theatre, dance, concerts, art exhibitions and a variety of multidisciplinary collaborations. Now in its seventh year, and in new home …
Across five days, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival delivers an eclectic program of events – from fiery conversations to intimate literary lunches, gripping live performances to hands-on workshops. The 14th Ubud Writers & Readers Festival will return to Bali’s cultural capital from 25–29 October, 2017, and will be explored …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
What poems thrill us as readers, and why? How do we find a poem’s form? What ideals are we striving for in our own writing? These are the sorts of practical and philosophical questions we’ll ask in this eight-week colloquium for writers wanting to explore topics in poetry as a …
Join Concordia University's Writers Read program for an evening “Celebrating Feminist Experimentation” with Daphne Marlatt and Erin Moure. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The League of Canadian Poets invites you to a special screening of Window Horses in support of young poets and poetry education in Canada. Followed by a live Q&A from director Ann Marie Fleming, as well as live poetry writing, a silent auction, draws, and more, this exclusive screening will …
The SoCalPoFest is an annual poetry festival that relocates each year to a different Southern California community. For 2017, the second annual, the event will feature themed readings and workshops. The SoCalPoFest is dedicated to preserving the diversity of voices within the community, and this diversity extends across cultural lines …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
Ten poets, each perform for ten minutes. This bi-monthly event showcases a range of voices, with new readers alongside experienced performers, and occasional guests give other responses to poetry. Stop for one poet or stay all afternoon. Learn more here and here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The warlock of words himself – Jeramy Dodds – is hitting the west coast. His newest collection of poetry, Drakkar Noir, is a haunting, yet hilarious depiction of a journey to and fro the furthest limits of the human experiment. He will be reading at The Paper Hound Bookstore. Learn …
Chosen from the first nine volumes of this innovative series, the anniversary volume takes the pulse of the last decade of Canadian poetry with ninety superb poems that have excelled—twice—at the test of Best. Join series editors Molly Peacock and Anita Lahey, previous guest editors, and a constellation of Canada’s …
Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp …
The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …
This project offers poets the opportunity to work with Michael Symmons Roberts, Sir James MacMillan and researchers from ITIA (the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts) on a new poem during StAnza 2018. Poets are invited to apply for the TheoArtistry Poets’ Scheme, a collaboration between StAnza, Scotland’s International …
The winner of the Alice James Award (formerly the Beatrice Hawley Award) receives $2000, book publication, and distribution through Consortium. The winner will also receive a $1000 honorarium and give a reading at the University of Maine at Farmington. In addition to the winning manuscript, one or more additional manuscripts …
The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canadian, American, and overseas authors for their annual Open Season Awards. An exciting spring showcase of literary excellence, Open Season bestows a prize of $1500 in each of three marquee categories: poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Entrants can submit …
Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2) magazine offers a poetry contest exclusively for writers under the age of 35. The YOUNG BUCK poetry prize will be awarded to the author of the single best submitted poem, along with $1000 and publication in CV2. Two honourable mentions will also be awarded, each with …
The Walt Whitman Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the …
Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they're what's happening in literature, right now. This evening's readings at the Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room in Toronto are by Dina Del Bucchia, E Martin Nolan and Spencer Gordon. Learn more here. Return to …
Joshua Shuster will feature at this edition of the London Open Mic. His feature reading will be followed by open mic poets. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
What poems thrill us as readers, and why? How do we find a poem’s form? What ideals are we striving for in our own writing? These are the sorts of practical and philosophical questions we’ll ask in this eight-week colloquium for writers wanting to explore topics in poetry as a …
Poetry In Aldeburgh is a not-for-profit organisation that plans to build on and continue the heritage of poetry and poetry festivals in the Suffolk Coastal area over almost three decades. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
The Gerry Shatford Trio will perform and poet Paul Vermeersch will narrate in an event for which all proceeds will be donated to the Al Purdy A Frame Trust. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, created in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is awarded annually by The Waywiser Press for a poetry collection by a poet who has published no more than one previous book of verse. The award includes publication with a $3,000 prize. Prize judge Gjertrud Schnackenberg …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Join Palimpsest Press as they celebrate the launch of their amazing 2017 books! Authors Jon R. Flieger, Yvonne Blomer, Brian Bartlett, Angela Hibbs, and Palimpsest poetry editor Jim Johnstone will be reading from their new books, signing copies, and indulging in an evening filled with literary goodness. The event begins …
What poems thrill us as readers, and why? How do we find a poem’s form? What ideals are we striving for in our own writing? These are the sorts of practical and philosophical questions we’ll ask in this eight-week colloquium for writers wanting to explore topics in poetry as a …
Following the success of A Poem for Every Night of the Year (Independent Bookshop Week Award 2017) Allie Esiri’s new anthology, A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a journey through a calendar year, highlighting key moments and dates with a poem for every day, by writers such …
Keep the Home Fires Burning is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on The First World War. It combines tunes of the period with both poems and writings weaving them into one continuous performance. Much of the programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great …
This spellbinding performance combining poetry, dance and live music is from the world’s most influential and innovative Chinese poet Yang Lian. Narrative Poem is Yang’s most personal poetry to date travelling back and forth in time, covering his childhood and his harrowing ‘re-education through labour’, digging graves in rural China, …
This event will feature readings from the forthcoming anthology Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees, hosted by anthology editor Laren McClung. Presenters will include Emily Brandt, Cathy Linh Che, Martha Collins, Brandon Courtney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gardner McFall, Josephine Rowe, Monica Sok, and Paul …
All experience levels are welcome to a monthly book group moderated by library staff. In November, we read and discuss Life on Mars by the new United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Space is limited to 15 participants. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Keep the Home Fires Burning is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on The First World War. It combines tunes of the period with both poems and writings weaving them into one continuous performance. Much of the programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great …
2017 Griffin Poetry Prize judge George Szirtes and 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize winner David Harsent read from their recent works. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Join Newscastle University live from King's Hall for the launch of "The Mighty Stream" a poetry anthology celebrating Martin Luther King. The event features readings by poets from both sides of the Atlantic featured in the anthology, including Fred D’Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Imtiaz Dharker, Sarah Howe, Major Jackson and Jackie …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp …
This event is co-sponsored with the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Our Miss Brooks 100: A Centennial Celebration, Poetry Society of America, Poets House, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library (NYPL). It will feature readings by Elizabeth Alexander, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Keep the Home Fires Burning is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on The First World War. It combines tunes of the period with both poems and writings weaving them into one continuous performance. Much of the programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great …
The Literature section of the Heliconian Club Salon Series is honoured to host a salon with one of our country’s bona fide literary luminaries. Anne Michaels, Toronto’s current Poet Laureate, is the author of two highly acclaimed novels and several books of poetry and has won several prestigious awards. Enjoy …
Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they're what's happening in literature, right now. This evening's readings at the Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room in Toronto are by Alicia Elliott, Susan Alexander and Rasiqra Revulva. Learn more here. Return to the International …
What poems thrill us as readers, and why? How do we find a poem’s form? What ideals are we striving for in our own writing? These are the sorts of practical and philosophical questions we’ll ask in this eight-week colloquium for writers wanting to explore topics in poetry as a …
Celebrating great writing in the classic way they always do, Real Vancouver Writers' Series presents: Canisia Lubrin Leanne Dunic David Chariandy Daniel Heath Justice Faisal Deen Carol Shaben Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
The Stories in Poetry event takes place at Novel Idea Bookstore in Kingston. Featured writers reading from their work are Susie Berg, Ramna Safeer, Maggie Helwig and Bänoo Zan. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
The Board of Directors of The Word On The Street Toronto is looking for a dynamic, energetic and visionary Festival Director to lead the organization. The Festival Director is responsible for the successful execution of the annual operations of the Toronto Book and Magazine Fair. Learn more here. Return to …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …
Atlantic Canada's international literary journal The Fiddlehead offers $2,000 prizes for the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem and for Best Story, with two $250 honourable mentions in each category. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Join Kundiman in celebrating the 2015 Kundiman Poetry Prize Winner Rajiv Mohabir's book The Cowherd's Son. He'll be joined by fellows Chen Chen, Jane Wong, and E.J. Koh. Kundiman is partnering with NYU for this annual reading at the beautiful Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. Learn more here. Return to …
After an incredible first year, the League of Canadian Poets is excited to be opening submissions to its national broadsheet contest once again! The winner of the 2018 contest will receive ten copies of their poem as a hand-crafted, artisanal broadsheet designed and produced by Briar Craig. As well, the …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
From December 4 to 15, you could win some of 2017’s biggest books — shortlisted and prize-winning books from Canada’s major literary awards! We’re talking major fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, YA, mystery, poetry, and cookbook award winners — something for absolutely everyone on your list – or for you! Each …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
John "David" White will feature at this edition of the London Open Mic. His feature reading will be followed by open mic poets. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
All knife | fork | book readings events happen Thursday evenings (unless otherwise noted). Doors open at 6:30 pm at Rick’s Cafe in Kensington Market. This event features readings by Jim Johnstone, Shane Neilson, Cornelia Hoogland and Chris Banks. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger. Participants spend the first hour reading poems …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
All knife | fork | book readings events happen Thursday evenings (unless otherwise noted). Doors open at 6:30 pm at Rick’s Cafe in Kensington Market. This event features readings by Soraya Peerbaye, Concetta Principe and Jack Davis. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
From December 4 to 15, you could win some of 2017’s biggest books — shortlisted and prize-winning books from Canada’s major literary awards! We’re talking major fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, YA, mystery, poetry, and cookbook award winners — something for absolutely everyone on your list – or for you! Each …
Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they're what's happening in literature, right now. This evening's readings at the Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room in Toronto are by Anita Dolman, Naben Ruthnum, Kevin Hardcastle and Domenica Martinello. Learn more here. Return to …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …
To mark the centenary of the birth of famed Canadian poet Al Purdy, his long-time publisher is calling for submissions for a 2018 anthology of poems written in tribute to the author. BC-based Harbour Publishing will issue the tribute poetry anthology in fall 2018. Previously published and new poems written …
Today is the second of two deadlines for the C$200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for 2018. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than December 31, 2017 for books published between July 1 and December 31, 2016. Learn more here about how to enter and how to obtain entry forms. Return …
Freefall offers $1,700 in prize money in prose and poetry categories. This year's judge is writer Bruce Hunter. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The publishers of The Moth, Rebecca O’Connor and Will Govan, are delighted to introduce the newly named The Moth Poetry Prize (formerly the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize). Now in its seventh year, it continues to offer one of the most lucrative awards in the world for a single unpublished poem. …
The Dorset Prize is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. The winner receives a $3,000 cash prize and a week-long residency at MASS MoCA worth $1,500 in addition to publication by Tupelo Press, 20 copies of the winning title, a …
Winning manuscripts are issued in both hardback and paperback editions and authors receive royalties on sales in addition to the cash award of $2,000. Each entrant will receive a complimentary one-year subscription to Tampa Review (mailed to any U.S. address; mailing outside U.S. can be arranged with a supplementary postage …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Brenda Shaughnessy reads at the Vermont Studio Center in an event sponsored by the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop moderated by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In January, we explore syntax, the structure poet Ellen Bryant Voigt argues is “the essential drama to the poem’s composition.” The group will explore a wide variety of syntactic structures and …
We’re calling the four corners. We’re calling magic makers of all kinds. We’re calling for spells for survival, tinctures of remedy, gossip, renewal rituals, new moon intentions, full moon feels, astrology memes. We want writing that plays between the worlds, that conjures new worlds, that heals the world we live …
This award is a program created by the League of Canadian Poets' National Council to promote the art of Haiku, and to celebrate Haiku Month in February! The winner of the Haiku contest will receive 10 t-shirts printed with the winning poem, and will have their work featured on the …
This contest is for those who come to keep the seats warm at The Tree Reading Series, those who come to the Seed workshops, or are regulars at the Tree open mic readings. The prize is now $250 and ten copies of your chapbook! Learn more here. Return to the …
The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize supports the publication of a first full-length book of poems by a Latinx poet. The winning poet will receive $1000 and a contract from University of Notre Dame Press. Upon publication of the winning book, Letras Latinas will extend an invitation to both the winner …
While most chapbook contests offer maybe $500 and 25 copies of your chapbook, Rattle is going to give one poet something special. Every year, at least one winner will receive: $2,000. 500 copies. Distribution to Rattle’s 7,000+ subscribers. In a world where a bestselling full-length poetry book means 1,000 copies …
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the writing, reading, performance, and appreciation of poetry – by presenting an annual festival and other poetry events in Palm Beach County – featuring America’s finest poets. The 14th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be presented in …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
For those interested in developing their own poetry, Donny O'Rourke is offering a new class open to poets at every level of ability, experience and ambition. This exciting new class begins on Wednesday, 17th January, 2018, but enrolment is ongoing. Donny's many 'graduates' have gone on to gain praise, prizes …
“What better way is there to memorialize a writer than to read what he has written and remember who he was in all those worlds of words he was brave and confident enough to imagine in the first place?” These words from Hilton Als’s remembrance of Derek Walcott, who died …
The Single Onion is Calgary’s longest-running poetry reading series, bringing Canada’s finest poets to its dedicated audience at Shelf Life Books. This event is curated by Metis poet and Inkspot Collective member Cobra Collins. Join Single Onion for an evening of poetry, performance, and tales of resilience, from Treaty 7 …
On January 19, 2018 at 7 pm, you are invited to join 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Liz Howard for a reading and conversation with Montréal writer and professor Gail Scott at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. Learn more here and here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
All knife | fork | book readings events are generally Friday nights. Doors 6:30 | Poetry 7-ish. unless noted otherwise. Check the knife | fork | book web site or twitter feed for any updates. This event features readings by Shannon Bramer, Catherine Graham and Jessica Hiemstra. Learn more here. …
A day of poetry inspired by randomness and uncertainty. Listening to half-tuned radios, following strangers, translating dog barks, etc. Working backwards from nonsense (nb. results could still be very stupid). We will try out some tested approaches (borrowed from Conceptual Writing, Chaos Magick, Dada) as well as devising some of …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
#TwitterPoetryClub meets on Twitter, on alternating Monday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST. Their formula is pretty simple: members share beloved or interesting poems by posting the poet's name, hashtagging "TwitterPoetryClub" and including an image of the poem and/or a link to the full text. Once a poem …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
An ideal environment for artistic inspiration and growth, Writing Studio is structured to provide an extended period of uninterrupted writing time, one-on-one editorial assistance from experienced writers/editors, and an opportunity to engage with a community of working writers. Faculty for this session, which runs April 30 to June 2, 2018 …
At each meeting, Parkland Poets will feature three readers who have signed up in advance to deliver a 10-minute reading. Following the featured readers, there will be an open mic session, where audience members can sign up (on the night itself) to deliver a brief 2-minute reading. Learn more here. …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and …