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 …
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 …
Two-time winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, Don Paterson more than deserves his reputation as one of Britain's foremost poets. Known for his mordant wit and technical mastery, Paterson is also an expert performer of his own work. He is joined by Krystelle Bamford, a poet raised in …
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's featured guest is poet Maureen Hynes. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Join the Real Vancouver Writers' Series and the community of readers and writers as they celebrate the end of 2016 and look forward to the future. The celebration features six writers from across genres, sensibilities, histories, and perspectives: Sierra Skye Gemma, Adrienne Gruber, Amber McMillan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Shaun Robinson and …
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. Host of the evening is Bänoo Zan, the featured poets this …
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 Munster Literature Centre holds an annual competition for an international poetry prize for a single poem, named in honour of a late Irish poet long associated with the Centre. The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize will have a first prize of €1,000 (approx $1125.48 USD/ £849.14 GBP @ xe.com …
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 Steady Café on Bloor West in Toronto are by Adèle Barclay, Sheri Benning, Mat Laporte and Eric Beck Rubin. Learn more here. …
Join the IFOA and Tightrope Books in celebrating the work of Canadian poets presented in the ninth edition of Canada’s vibrant yearly anthology The Best Canadian Poetry 2016. Dani Couture, Lynn Crosbie, Helen Humphreys, Laurie D. Graham, Steve McOrmond, Lee Maracle, Stephen Maude, A.F. Moritz, Kate Sutherland, Souvankham Thammavongsa and …
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world. The contest winner receives a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop. In addition, the winning poem and the poems of the two runners-up …
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia's most prestigious prizes for a new poem. The Prize – now open to all poets writing in English – is named after the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010). The Prize was first awarded in 2005 (Stephen Edgar) and was renamed …
Atlantic Canada's international literary journal The Fiddlehead offers $2,000 prizes for best poem and best short story, with two $250 honourable mentions in each category. 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 Rowers Reading Series is a monthly literary reading series, which runs the first Monday of the month, from October to June. The series showcases the finest poetry, fiction and nonfiction writers from diverse backgrounds, as well as selected emerging writers. The series incorporated in May 2007. This month's offering …
The Walrus Poetry Prize offers prizes of $4,000 and $1,000 respectively for poems that win juried and readers' choice competitions. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
David Stones, a well-known regional poet who has read to acclaim in many of this series' open mics, will feature at this edition of the London Open Mic. His feature reading will be followed by 15 open mic poets. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
We wish you a LOUD Christmas and a happy New Year! After wowing the Edinburgh Fringe and festivals all the way from Brighton to Prague (winners of the 2016 New Territories Award), the Loud Poets are bringing their 5 star show to the Scottish Poetry Library to get the holidays …
The Poetry Extension will bring together poets and dancers from Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the US together, one face-melting gig at a time. The third is December 8, 2016, online only. This edition of The Poetry Extension welcomes the following megawatt poets: Vahni Capildeo, Sophie Collins, Inua Ellams, SJ …
Acclaimed poets Reginald Gibbons and Alan Shapiro read from their newest work at Seminary Co-op Bookstore. 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's featured guest is poet Kate Sutherland. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Independent Scottish poetry publishing is going from strength to strength. This festive fair at the Scottish Poetry Library is always a popular event. Come along for a glass of wine and hear the poems, meet the publishers and buy the pamphlets. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Two great friends — Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and Poet Laureate of the NYBG whose poems are on the grounds of the Garden this winter, and beloved Irish poet and former Vassar College Professor Eamon Grennan — read their own poems and have a dialogue on their experience …
Established in 1966, the League of Canadian Poets is a national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting, engaging, and promoting poets and poetry in Canada. The League of Canadian Poets is seeking a new Administrative Director to join its team. The Administrative Director is responsible for overseeing, administering, and improving the …
In our annual celebration of Emily Dickinson's birthday, award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith reads Dickinson's work and discusses the great significance of her legacy. Smith is joined by Dr. David DeVorkin, Senior Curator of Astronomy for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, to talk about astronomy from a 19th …
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 …
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 …
Attention all you word-braiders, CV2 is rooting for poems that address, in any wave, shave or comb, the filamentous outgrowth experience known as hair! Send CV2 your comet-tailed, sun-tressed, folliculared, oiled, feathered, nappy-happied, blue-rinsed, back-combed, dreadlocked, towel-dried, ingrown, overgrown, turbaned, receding, ice-lashed, wigged-out, whiskered, weaved, cornrowed, jheri-curled, hot-waxed, teased, tweezed, …
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 Hot-Sauced Words 9th Annual Poetry Anti-Pageant Show in support of The Daily Bread Foodbank features the a capella group Kirsten Sandwich plus seasonal readings by Susan Lynn Reynolds, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Allan Briesmaster and Nicki Ward, and will include the seasonal open mic. All performers are waiving their honorariums …
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. Host of the evening is Bänoo Zan, and the featured poets …
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 this issue of Poetry Is Dead, we are interested in the poem that comes out of bodily experience that is difficult. The poem that does not eliminate the effort or labour from the writing. That makes difficulty visible. The untidy poem. The apparently struggling poem. The Sick Woman poem. …
The Open Door series presents work from Chicago’s new and emerging poets and highlights the area’s outstanding writing programs. Each hour-long event features readings by two Chicagoland college and graduate writing program instructors and two of their current or recent students. December's Open Door Reading presents Young Chicago Authors' Jamila …
The Sawdust Reading Series is an Ottawa-based series shining a light on both sung and unsung Ottawa poets. The Sawdust Reading Series events occur on the third Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at Pour Boy, 495 Somerset St. W. in Ottawa, Ontario. Events include an open mic, a …
The Platform Reading Series showcases the Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. At this year end wrap-up, there will be readings by winners of the Random House Award, superstar student readers and featured readings by Michel Basilieres, Catherine Graham and Ibi Kaslik. Learn more …
Today is the second of two deadlines for the C$200,000 Griffin Poetry Prize for 2017. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than December 31, 2016 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 Susan Musgrave. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta is preparing to celebrate another successful year with the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards. Writers from across Alberta and their publishers are invited to check out and submit to this year’s award categories. Submissions are evaluated on originality, creativity, and quality of writing, as well as …
Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2) magazine offers a poetry contest exclusively for writers under the age of 35. The YOUNG BUCK poetry prize is awarded to the author of the single best submitted poem, along with $1000 and publication in CV2. Three honourable mentions will also be awarded, each with a …