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Ledbury Poetry Festival

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 21st year, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, films, family …

Dead Poets Reading Series

The next Dead Poets reading will take place at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch on July 9th, 2017, from 3-5 PM. The reading will be hosted in the Alice MacKay Room, which is located one floor below the entry concourse. It will feature: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 …

TS Eliot Festival, hosted by The Eliot Society

The TS Eliot Festival is an inspirational day of talks, readings, and discussions on the occasion of the centenary of TS Eliot’s first published collection, Prufrock and Other Observations. The celebrated novelist Ali Smith will read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and discuss it with biographer Adam Begley. …

Forms and Features at Comfort Station: Eclogue

All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop led by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In July, they examine the eclogue, a short dialogue or soliloquy that most often takes a pastoral theme. The group will read and discuss a wide variety of eclogues. A creative …

Di Placido, Pileggi and DaCosta 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 …