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Literary Cocktails 2022 from University of Alberta Press

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University of Alberta Press is pleased to announce its annual event Literary Cocktails. Please join us online on April 28, 2022 at 6 pm MT. Everyone is welcome! This year, the virtual poetry reading event will be hosted by Edmonton Poetry Festival’s Artistic Producer, Shima Robinson. The event will feature readings …

Arc Poetry Magazine Spring Launch: Tribute to Diana Brebner

Christ Church Cathedral 414 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario

Join us for an evening of poetry and music. In the Winter 2002 issue of  Arc Poetry Magazine , the 1st Annual Diana Brebner Prize winner was announced. After 20 years of administering this award for an exceptional poem by an Ottawa-based poet not yet published in book form,   Arc  97 looks back at the …

Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Finals

The Wise Hall 1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

Canadian Individual Poetry Slam is a nationally recognized poetry slam. This year, the competition will take place online and in-person , as part of the Verses Festival of Words. 16 poets representing spoken word series and regions across Canada will compete in a head-to-head double knock out tournament, presenting poems that …

2022 Vallum Chapbook Award Deadline

Vallum’s Chapbook Series has published work from Bhanu Kapil, Sina Queyras, Nicole Brossard, George Elliott Clarke, Erín Moure, Franz Wright, Fanny Howe, John Kinsella, and many more. Past winners of the Vallum Chapbook Award have won the bpNichol Chapbook Prize, been nominated for the Nelson Ball Prize for poetry of …

Poetry Spring at St John’s College

Lightfoot Room Divinity School University Of Cambridge, St Johns St, Cambridge

April 30th 2022 will see Poetry Spring at St John’s College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets, including two past Griffin Poetry Prize winners: Valzhyna Mort and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Other guests include Anita Pati and Denise Saul, with a workshop by Holly Corfield …

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The Translator’s Craft: Ani Gjika on Translating Albanian Literature

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Ani Gjika is among the most prolific and renowned translators of contemporary Albanian literature today. Translator of a wide range of Albanian authors, sensibilities, and literary genres, and a poet herself, her work is a testament to the versatility, cultural mediation or brokering, and nimbleness that is central to the …