Writer Leslie Greentree debuts her first art show, triptychs of photos and text poking around themes of death and loss from oblique angles. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The Indigenous Voices Awards aim to support Indigenous literary production in its diversity and complexity, understanding Indigenous literatures to include but not be limited to novels, creative non-fiction, short stories, poetry, orality, graphic novels, comics, slam, drama, music lyrics, screenwriting, and other forms. The awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous …
Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999), this award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry. Awarded collection is selected through an annual competition which is open to all poets. Award is $3000, publication of the awarded collection by Red Hen Press, and a …
Write one haiku a day for the month of February! Why February? Because it’s the shortest month - for the world’s shortest genre of poetry. Join poets around the world who pledge to write at least one haiku a day for National Haiku Writing Month during the year’s shortest month. …
Zócalo Public Square, the Los Angeles-based ideas magazine, is now accepting submissions for its seventh annual poetry prize, which is awarded to the U.S. poet whose poem best evokes a connection to place. The winning poet in 2018 will receive $500, a published interview, and deliver a public reading 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 …
#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 …
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 …
The critically-acclaimed feast of music, storytelling, poetry, and more—now in its eighth season—has become a staple of New York’s cultural diet. Led by Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, this words-and-music jamboree features an evolving lineup of world-class special guests from across the spectrum of arts and letters. Learn more …
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 …
Ireland's largest annual poetry festival features poets from across the English-speaking world as well as poets working in other languages. This year's lineup includes Ken Babstock, Emily Berry, Ishion Hutchinson, Mary O'Donnell, D.A. Powell, Mark Roper, Jane Yeh and more. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Verve is a four day festival of world class poetry and spoken word, with readings, performances, workshops, children’s events and more in the heart of Birmingham city centre. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Wikipedia states that a Poetry Slam is “a competition in which poets read or recite original work” and that Originality is “the aspect of created or invented works new or novel.” Well, join Poetry as F*ck for a new, novel, and original way of doing a Poetry Slam. It’s... The …
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 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 …
Hoa Nguyen will first offer a three-hour workshop, in which participants will experiment with various writing techniques that invite advanced forms of receptivity. Working, sorting and weaving through the perceptional fields that make up our palimpsest world, participants will write poems as a site of simultaneous struggle and recovery. Following …
Submissions for the July 2018 to June 2019 period are now open. Four writers will be selected to live and write for three months each in Dawson City, Yukon, in the childhood home of noted Canadian author Pierre Berton. Residents will receive a $6,000 honorarium, part of which may be …
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 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 Poetry Extension brings together poets from around the world, one face-melting gig at a time. This edition of The Poetry Extension celebrates Black History Month and welcomes the following poets: Ifra Hussein, Jericho Brown, Lorna Goodison, Paulina O' Kieffe and Rabbit Richards, along with host Natalya Anderson. Learn more …
Art of Time Ensemble has assembled a group of artists - singers, authors, and musicians alike - with profound love and respect for Leonard Cohen's work to pay tribute to his legacy. Singers Steven Page, Sarah Harmer, Sarah Slean, Tom Wilson, and Gregory Hoskins will perform Cohen's songs in arrangements …
Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Freedom to Read Week is organized by the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council. …
Art of Time Ensemble has assembled a group of artists - singers, authors, and musicians alike - with profound love and respect for Leonard Cohen's work to pay tribute to his legacy. Singers Steven Page, Sarah Harmer, Sarah Slean, Tom Wilson, and Gregory Hoskins will perform Cohen's songs in arrangements …
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 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 …
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 …
Sponsored by former TNQ (The New Quarterly) editor Kim Jernigan and family in celebration of the man who sparked their love of poetry, this contest is for poems written in response to an occasion, personal or public-poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make of …
Please send poetry, collages, book art, altered books, graphic comics, asemic writing, visual art, visual poems, imaginary letters and anything else you can think of that makes readers question their ideas of what poetry is for consideration for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018. Especially welcomed is work by the following groups: women, people …
This popular poetry competition returns featuring readings by 20 of Canada’s upcoming and established poets. 20 eligible poets will be selected at random to read on the PoetryNOW stage and one reader will be selected as the winner. Hosted by NOW Magazine’s Susan G. Cole. The poets will be judged …
Growing Room: A Feminist Literary Festival is Room magazine’s annual literary festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists. This year's lineup includes Amber Dawn, Caroline Adderson, Carleigh Baker, Marie Annharte Baker, Adèle Barclay, Farzana Doctor, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Jen Sookfong Lee, Emily Pohl-Weary, Vivek Shraya and more. Learn …
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 …
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 …
StAnza's mission is to celebrate poetry, to bring poetry to audiences and to enable encounters with poetry. The organisation works all year round to deliver poetry events and projects in Scotland and beyond. StAnza’s main focus is its annual festival in St Andrews each spring. Now recognised as one of …
Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a national poetry recitation contest for high-school students in Canada founded by Scott Griffin and The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. The Griffin Trust raises awareness of the crucial role poetry plays in our cultural life, a mission shared by Poetry …
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 …
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 …
Off The Page is a literary festival run by undergraduate and graduate students from several departments at Concordia University. This year, there will be readings by Renee Gladman, Karen Solie, Danielle Dutton and many more. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
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 …
The Dead Rabbits Reading Series was founded in 2014 by Devin Kelly (Sarah Lawrence MFA ’15), Katie Longofono (Sarah Lawrence MFA ’14), and Katie Rainey (Sarah Lawrence MFA ’14) as a way of providing a place for the burgeoning and young New York City literary scene to exist and thrive …
Writing the Future features three award-winning, Indigenous voices - Eden Robinson, Katherena Vermette and Jordan Abel - and UBC Creative Writing alumni. Listen to a reading from each of these highly acclaimed authors, followed by a Q&A moderated by new Chair of the UBC Creative Writing Program, and acclaimed author, …
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 …
VERSe Ottawa is a fully-incorporated collective of Ottawa organizations who curate and produce reading and performance series. One of the principal strengths of VERSe is the inclusion of written- and spoken word poetry groups, as well as other leaders in the poetry community. In coming together, the members of VERSe …
Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a national poetry recitation contest for high school students in Canada. Registration is free and open to all secondary schools across Canada, as well as CEGEPs in Quebec. Poetry In Voice is a non-profit organization founded by Scott Griffin, Chairman and founder …
Join MacEwan University as thet celebrate the 20th anniversary of the MacEwan Book of the Year with a special reading by Dionne Brand, author of the 2017/18 Book of the Year, Love Enough. The reading will be followed by an on-stage conversation between the author and novelist and MacEwan English …
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 …
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 …
This popular poetry competition returns featuring readings by 20 of Canada’s upcoming and established poets. 20 eligible poets will be selected at random to read on the PoetryNOW stage and one reader will be selected as the winner. Hosted by NOW Magazine’s Susan G. Cole. The poets will be judged …
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 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 …
Founded in 2012 in New Westminster, BC, Royal Literary Arts Society (RCLAS) is a vibrant community of writers in the Lower Mainland and beyond. RCLAS has once again flung open the doors for aspiring writers to submit their best efforts in any of three writing genres (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) …
Amanda Earl of AngelHousePress started NationalPoetryMonth.ca in 2009 as an alternative to institutionalized celebrations of poetry with the goal of expanding preconceived notions of what poetry is or means. NationalPoetryMonth.ca is a celebration of the nation of poetry. Poetry is a land of risk, play, meditation, provocation and delight. It …
National Poetry Month is a month-long celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and observed since 1999 in Canada. As the Academy of American Poets states, National Poetry Month is meant to widen the attention of individuals and the media to the art of poetry, …
Visit the Aberdeen Timberland Library anytime during the month of April to decorate rocks with original poetry or lines from a favorite poem. All art supplies will be provided. Learn more here.
Join the festivities at the historic Monarch Tavern for an amazing evening of poetry and music in support of the Al Purdy A-Frame Association. Performers include Laura Clarke, Jeff Latosik, Damian Rogers, Karen Solie, Kate Boothman, and Alex Lukashevski. Tickets are $5.00 or free with valid student I.D. and will …
#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 …
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 first ever European Poetry Festival will present ten events in three British cities, in under two weeks, from April 5th to April 14th 2018. Over 50 poets from 23 countries will take part, many visiting, many residents of the UK. It will be a pioneering showcase of live literature, …
This spring, Coach House is turning up the juice. Their presses are working overtime to produce the 100 percent pure, fresh literature you’ve come to expect from them. Come to their launch to sip the fruits of their labour! The event will features readings Adam Dickinson, Kelli Korducki, Amy Nostbakken …
As part of National Poetry Month, Sanderson Public Library welcomes four fabulous poets and their words to wake the world! Liz Howard, Eva H.D., Jack Davis and Kate Cayley will inspire, entertain and challenge. Come celebrate National Poetry Month at this special event. Learn more here. Return to the International …
All are invited to a reading and conversation with poets Shane Neilson, Molly Peacock and Ronna Bloom. The event is moderated by Dr. Allan Peterkin of The Program in Health, Arts and Humanities, University of Toronto. Learn more here.
Enjoy an evening of poetry & prose & music featuring Rana Bose, Branka Petrovic, Greg Santos, Ilona Martonfi, Marie Dupuis, Lady Rojas Benavente, Nigel Thomas, Harry Rajchgot, Maria Caltabiano, John Kerkhoven (music). Learn more here.
Permission to speak. To question. To eat. To rage, to love, to move, to choose, to lose. To insist, resist, desist, exist, destroy, create, release. Permission to believe or disbelieve, to end or begin later. Or never begin. Permission to trespass, to flee, to fault. To leave and return. Or …
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 Virginia Konchan, Shannon Bramer and Dani Couture. Learn more here.
This annual contest challenges you to write an original poem in 48 hours — with only one catch. The final poem must include ten words provided by CV2 Contemporary Verse 2 - The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing. These words are released at midnight CDT on Friday April …
We publish a new Poem of the Week every Sunday here on the Griffin Poetry Prize web site. The poems are taken from collections that have been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Notes accompany each selection, inviting discussion about features, subject matter, background information and more about each poem. …
Barry Dempster is hosting the 14th Annual Poetry Celebration. Readings, refreshments and book signings will take place with poets of honour including Mr Dempter himself, along with Antonio D'Alfolnso, Catherine Graham, Helen Guri and Robert Priest. Learn more here.
We publish a new Poem of the Week every Sunday here on the Griffin Poetry Prize web site. The poems are taken from collections that have been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Notes accompany each selection, inviting discussion about features, subject matter, background information and more about each poem. …
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 …
Join SALON-LONDON and moderator So Mayer to speak with Erín Moure about Paraguayan Sea by Wilson Bueno (her most recent translation) and Planetary Noise, her collected poems, edited by Shannon Maguire. Learn more here.
Poet Tanya Neumeyer offers a feature set at this event. There will also be an opening personal essay reading by the Margeaux Feldman and an open mic. The event is hosted by Barbara Erochina of www.bewith.org and supported by the League of Canadian Poets and the Toronto Arts Council. Learn …
Crossways aims to foster and expand literary links between Ireland and Scotland across the North Channel. It brings together notable Irish writers, musicians, filmmakers and cultural figures – from both North and South – together with their Scottish peers, in a well-planned and well-balanced Festival focussing on the longstanding contribution …
A special focus event of the European Poetry Festival, some of the finest literary poets from Lithuania, nation of focus at the London Bookfair 2018, and their British contemporaries present brand new collaborations made for the night. Featuring: Marius Burokas & George Szirtes Aušra Kazili?nait? & SJ Fowler Giedr? Kazlauskaite …
The critically-acclaimed feast of music, storytelling, poetry, and more—now in its eighth season—has become a staple of New York’s cultural diet. Led by Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, this words-and-music jamboree features an evolving lineup of world-class special guests from across the spectrum of arts and letters. Learn more …
The International and Canadian shortlist for the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize will be announced today. The announcement will appear here on the Griffin Poetry Prize web site as well as on all Griffin Poetry Prize social media channels. Take a look back at the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist. Return …
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 …
This year’s Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics will be given by Lisa Robertson. An important focus of her talk will be 11th-13th century poetries in the Occitan language, in which she will trace an avant avant garde thinking through of literary form as embodied, affective process, linguistic difference …
House of Anansi Press launches their 2018 spring selection of poetry publications with readings by A.F. Moritz (The Sparrow), Emma Healey (Stereoblind), and Mikko Harvey (Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit), hosted by Kevin Connolly. Learn more here.
University of Buffalo presents a roundtable, community discussion, and poetry readings that will allow all to reflect and build on Lisa Robertson’s lecture (the Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics, April 12, 5:45 pm). Participating will be two other Canadian feminist poets working on language and cultural politics, particularly …
Flin Flon Writers Guild, Flin Flon Toastmasters Club and the Flin Flon Public Library invites everyone to their 17th annual poetry reading, in honour of National Poetry Month. Learn more here.
This annual contest challenges you to write an original poem in 48 hours — with only one catch. The final poem must include ten words provided by CV2 Contemporary Verse 2 - The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing. These words are released at midnight CDT on Friday April …
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 …
The Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize is a second-book award for black poets of African descent, offered every other year. This award celebrates and publishes works of lasting cultural value and literary excellence. Learn more here.
The Skriva Writing School hosts a six-week course that will take participants through various aspects of the craft of poetry, to deepen understanding of one's voice and creative practice. The course begins with new ways of ‘starting’ poems and ends with a session on writing a sequence of poems linked …
#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 …
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 …
Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a charitable organization that encourages Canadian students to fall in love with poetry through reading, writing, and recitation. The 24 top-scoring students from the Online Semifinals and their teachers win a spot at the National Finals, plus travel and accommodation. The highlight …
Les voix de la poésie/Poetry In Voice sont un organisme de bienfaisance qui encourage les élèves de partout au Canada à vivre l’aventure de la poésie par le biais de la lecture, de l’écriture et de la récitation. Les 24 élèves qui obtiennent les meilleurs scores à la demi-finale sur …
Dunya Mikhail reads from her latest collection, The Beekeeper in the Us Too event, part of the PEN American World Voices Festival. Learn more here.
The Sawdust Reading Series is so proud to present two incredible poets, Ayesha Chatterjee and Sarah Kabamba. Come out to Bar Robo for an unforgettable night of great company and fabulous poetry. Don't forget your poems for the open mic! Learn more here.
The mission of the Verses Festival of Words is to celebrate the transformative power of words – written, spoken or sung; to engage diverse groups in cutting-edge, live performances as both audience and participants; to present influential artists from both the oral and literary traditions, and to encourage the next …
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop led by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In April, the focus on the simile, a comparative construction that creates meaning through likeness and unlikeness. Participants will read and discuss a wide range of poems before composing an original …
Join curator Amber Lloydlangston for a Women's Lives curator tour followed by the launch of Penn Kemp's poetry book Local Heroes. Learn more here.
All are invited to a celebration of the centenary of Al Purdy's birth. Join readers George Bowering, Rhea Tregebov, Rob Taylor, Jane Munro, Raoul Fernandes, Kayla Czaga, Danny Peart, Joanne Arnott and Kate Braid as they share Al Purdy's poetry as well as their own. The event is hosted by …
Canada’s oldest non-governmental national poetry contest honours the memory and legacy of its first national poet, Dr. William Henry Drummond. Learn more here.
Being forced to leave one’s country involves profound physical dislocation as well as the emotional upheaval of being separated from family, friends, and the very roots of our existence. Often accompanying this change is the need to adjust to a new place, the strangeness and the stresses of crossing into …
Poetry is a source of energy, entertainment and joy shared by all societies. The Edmonton Poetry Festival celebrates poetry in all its forms. They get people from across the city involved as creators and audiences. Doesn’t matter what age you are, what culture you come from, or whether you fall …
Founded in Galway in 1985, Cúirt International Festival of Literature is one of the oldest and most recognised literature festivals in Europe. The festival aims to celebrate and shine a spotlight on national and international literary talent, as well as to promote the written word in poetry and literary fiction, …
The RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award supports and celebrates new Canadian writers. Young unpublished writers are invited to submit short stories, creative non-fiction, journalism, and poetry to a jury of distinguished PEN Canada members for a chance to win $2,000 CAD and mentorship from a Canadian author. Submissions to PEN …
With a prize of $1,000 (US), this year's contest will be judged by poet Carl Phillips. Learn more here.