Inspired by the late artist and poet Adrian Henri’s interdisciplinary spirit, a season of art, poetry and music reflecting on the experience of the city comes to Whitechapel Gallery this spring. Musician Thurston Moore and arts editor Eva Prinz curate three evenings of experimental performance from today’s leading poets and …
Concrete is Porous, Act 1: Visual is an exhibition of concrete poetry. After stints in Toronto and Ottawa, the exhibition will be presented at Common Ground Gallery in Windsor. The exhibition features work by bill bissett, derek beaulieu, Adeena Karasick, bpNichol, Gary Barwin, Gustave Morin, Grant Wilkins, Barbara Caruso, Judith …
Since 2011, The Word On The Street Saskatoon has proudly hosted a wide and diverse range of literary talent from across Canada. Their eighth annual festival is shaping up to be another great one. Learn more here.
The Edna Staebler Laurier Writer-in-Residence program is a residency for Canadian writers. Wilfrid Laurier University offers both shorter, "intensive" residency opportunities and longer residencies, depending on available funds and local planning initiatives from year to year. All Canadian writers of established literary reputation in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction or drama …
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 …