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Philip Levine Prize for Poetry: Deadline to Submit

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The Philip Levine Prize for Poetry is an annual book contest sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at California State University, Fresno. This contest — open to any poet writing in English (except current or former students or faculty of Fresno State) — offers a $2,000 prize and publication by Anhinga …

$25

Nomenclature: Dionne Brand

Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto, Ontario

Audience favourite Dionne Brand, award-winning Canadian author and Toronto’s 3rd Poet Laureate, presents her latest book, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems. Comprised of intense new work and eight prior volumes – originally published between 1982 and 2010 – the collection captures the intimacies and disillusionments of wars and revolutions so profoundly that …

$17

Alycia Pirmohamed Book Launch: Another Way to Split Water

Burley Fisher Books 400 Kingsland Rd, London

Join us for the launch of Another Way to Split Water by Alycia Pirmohamed (CBC Poetry Prize Winner) with Pratyusha and Nina Mingya Powles. In Alycia Pirmohamed’s debut poetry collection, a woman’s body expands and contracts across the page, fog uncoils at the fringes of a forest, and water in all its …

Free

Poetry Africa Festival

The annual Poetry Africa festival is curated and presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. The festival is one of the single most important contemporary poetry events on the African continent and offers a weeklong celebration of wordsmiths across all ages …

Muldoon’s Picnic – October

Irish Arts Center 726 11th Avenue, New York, NY

With a name that harkens back to a late 1800s New York vaudeville act, this moveable feast of an event—curated and presented by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and songwriter Paul Muldoon—combines music, prose and poetry, and high commentary and low comedy with an evolving lineup of world-class guests and house band …

$25 – $65

The Polyglot Issue 10 Launch at LitFest

Stanley A. Milner Edmonton Public Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta

Named Alberta’s Best New Magazine in 2021, The Polyglot has proudly published 188 writers and artists working in 51 Indigenous and Heritage languages in the last five years. Join us as we launch and celebrate our tenth issue with readings by brilliant bilingual writers Mila Bongco-Philipzig, Meghan Eaker, Diana Gaviria, …

$13.26

Antler River Poetry Presents Chantal Gibson & Kevin Andrew Heslop

Landon Branch London Public Library 167 Wortley Rd, London, Ontario

A new month means a new reading! Antler River Poetry is delighted to present Chantal Gibson and Kevin Andrew Heslop with local opener Jack Bradley on October 19 @ 7:00 p.m. at the Landon Library in Wortley Village. A reminder that we ask all guests to wear a mask to …

Free

Joy Harjo and Layli Long Soldier: Poems in Conversation

Carlson Family Stage 84 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN

The Department of English's Esther Freier Lecture Series presents former US Poet Laureate (2019-2022) Joy Harjo and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Layli Long Soldier reading from and discussing their poetry. Co-sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies; AIS Associate Professor Christopher Pexa will moderate a conversation about contemporary …

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