Hear established and emerging poets read their poems outdoors under the park's London Plane trees, featuring the poets Forrest Gander, Ani Gjika and Richard Sieburth. Produced in partnership with Poetry Society of America, all readings are free and open to the public. Books are available for purchase at the event …
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 Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Touted as the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 23rd year in 2019, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, …
An evening of poetry and stories explores the body as a site of power and resistance. What does the body mean to you? Who draws the boundaries of what the body is or what it could potentially be? Join us for an evening of poetry and story-telling exploring the relationship …
Founded in 1975, the Literary Press Group (LPG) is a not-for-profit association of Canadian literary book publishers. With a current membership of about sixty Canadian-owned and -operated publishing houses, the LPG's mandate is to support the growth of Canadian literary culture. The LPG helps member publishers sell, distribute, and market …
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 …
carte blanche, founded in 2004, is the official online magazine of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. They are celebrating over 15 years of promoting poetry, creative nonfiction, comics, translation, photography, fiction, and literary commentary from Quebec, Canada, and around the world. carte blanche seeks a Poetry Editor to work both independently …
Literature is haunted by that which covers two-thirds of our planet, the sea. Its myths and marine life offer inexhaustible inspiration for writers. This course, led by Paul Henry and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, delights in the sea’s influence on poetry and considers different approaches to reflecting its pervading presence in our …
The West Cork Literary Festival features workshops, readings, seminars, family events and more. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Carson is among the writers attending this year's festival. Learn more here.
Uncover your creativity at a poetry workshop with the writer of incisive, intimate poetry collection The Perseverance (PBS Winter Choice 2018). Raymond Antrobus is the winner of the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and he is the recipient …
Farming districts, factory villages, ghost towns, bedroom communities, alternative societies, touristic hamlets, and shtetls: Poetry is Dead wants your poems and creative nonfiction on the subject of small town life. It isn’t necessary to have grown up in a small town to have an experience of one. Whether it be …