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.