Join Librairie Drawn & Quarterly as they celebrate the launch of Billy-Ray Belcourt's latest book, NDN Coping Mechanisms. In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to …
A tram running on Bucharest’s line 1 will host an interactive poetry library between September 10 and October 1, as part of the Poetry Tram project of Arta nu Musca (Art Doesn’t Bite) organization, in a partnership with the Bucharest City Hall and the capital’s public transport company STB. Those …
Join writer Billy-Ray Belcourt in conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about his new genre-bending work, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field. Belcourt employs poetry, poetics, prose, and photography to illuminate the rogue possibilities bubbling up everywhere NDNs are. Learn more here.
On Tuesday September 10, the wait will be over ... The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, will be revealed. The momentous literary event will be celebrated with an exclusive live cinema broadcast, as Fane Productions present an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic …
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 …
What keeps us engaged? What drives us down the page to the end of the poem? This session will explore “speed” or “momentum,” by analyzing poems that keep our attention. Learn more here.
The Brockton Writers Series (BWS) is a bi-monthly literary reading series founded in November, 2009. The series’ vision is to host writers who reflect Canadian literature and Canadian diversity, defining diversity to include: established and emerging writers, writers of colour, queer writers, younger and older writers, aboriginal writers and other …
Fraser Valley Literary Festival features the diverse and vibrant literature of the Fraser Valley and Canada every September. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Laisha Rosnau and Michael V Smith, and panelists include Marita Dachsel, Jonina Kirton and many more. Learn more here.
An opportunity has arisen for a Scotland-based poet to take up a commission at one of the country’s most exciting new buildings. Parabola, the developer who owns 43 acres of undeveloped land to the south of the capital’s Edinburgh Park, has announced that the Turner Prize-nominated David Mach has been …
The Writers’ Trust of Canada is a national not-for-profit organization, the mission of which is to advance, nurture and celebrate Canadian writers and writing. Writers’ Trust programming is designed to champion excellence in Canadian writing, to improve the status of writers, and to create connections between writers and readers. The …
In a long night of readings, ten international poets read out loud their poems in the original versions. These will be followed by actors who read the German translations. The poets taking part are Ghayath Almadhoun, Hussein Bin Hamza, Don Mee Choi, Maren Kames, Eileen Myles, Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai, …