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Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín

The Medellín International Poetry Festival aims to strengthen the climate of peace and reconciliation of the Colombian people and to expand the dialogue and visionary spirit of poetry,in a city sorely affected and segmented by complex social problems. This year's events will celebrate the festival's first 25 years. Learn more …

Poetry and Music Night at the art bar poetry series

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 …

NIÁGARA — A Pan-American Story

NIÁGARA — A Pan-American Story was commissioned for the TORONTO 2015 arts and culture festival PANAMANIA, inspired by PANAMANIA TO2015's theme of 'Aquaculture', celebrating the culminating year of the United Nations International Decade for Action - "Water for Life". In 1824 José María Heredia, a twenty-year old poet and revolutionary …

Bakkhai – Euripides – A new version by Anne Carson

Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides’ electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, man and god. Using three actors and a chorus, echoing the …

Rogers, Burgham and Flaherty at the art bar poetry series

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 …