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The Sealey Challenge

Online

From chapbooks to full-length collections, participants in The Sealey Challenge read a book of poetry each day in August. The goals are simple: read a book each day, engage with diverse voices and be an active member of an online community of poetry lovers. Join the challenge Plan your reading …

House of Anansi Submissions Open

Online

House of Anansi is open to receive direct submissions from authors twice a year, for a one-month period each, beginning February 1 and August 1. The portal is currently open for submissions. Agents are welcome to submit to individual editors at any time. Before submitting, please take the time to familiarize yourself …

Fertile Festival of New and Inventive Works in Poetry

The Great Escape Book Store 957 Kingston Road, Toronto, Ontario

Mostly, we wanted to embark on an adventure. Join us. FERTILE FESTIVAL OF NEW & INVENTIVE WORKS IN POETRY 05 - 28 AUGUST 2022 KFB EAST at THE GREAT ESCAPE BOOK STORE 957 KINGSTON RD Curated by The Blasted Tree, Gap Riot Press & KFB Our Inaugural. Featuring a feast of New & Inventive Works in …

$10 – $100

Forms & Features Online with Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí

Zoom

All are welcome to to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop, “The Poetry of Glossolalia,” created and led by Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí. In this session, we will discuss glossolalia as a poetic form by engaging work by poets who are making the poetry of prayer today and work by Black …

Free

We’ve Weave: Deep Curation

Théâtre aux Écuries 7285 Rue Chabot, Montreal, Quebec

We’ve Weave is a Deep Curation collaborative, experimental poetry reading performance featuring Alexei Perry Cox and Kama La Mackerel, and curated by Klara du Plessis, produced in residency at Studio303 with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and SpokenWeb. The performance is free to attend and no …

Free

Muldoon’s Picnic (Irish tour)

After a successful Irish tour in 2017 and again in 2019, as well as ten sold out seasons at the Irish Arts Center in New York, Muldoon’s Picnic returns for four dates nationwide 10-14 August 2022. An omnium-gatherum of poetry, prose and music, Muldoon's Picnic is hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning …

€12 – €20

Sounds Like Fire: Francis Arevalo, Kimmortal, Desiree Dawson, Hari Alluri

Vancity Culture Lab - Cultch 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

Doors at 7:30, show at 8 If available, tickets will also be sold at the door. We had to cancel Sounds Like Fire during the festival but you just can't keep a good fire down. The event features award-winning local poets and musicians Francis Arevalo, Kimmortal, Desiree Dawson and Hari …

$25