A tram running on Bucharest’s line 1 will host an interactive poetry library between September 10 and October 1, as part of the Poetry Tram project of Arta nu Musca (Art Doesn’t Bite) organization, in a partnership with the Bucharest City Hall and the capital’s public transport company STB. Those …
Canadian artist Doris McCarthy (1910-2010) recognized that her home and studio in Toronto, Fool’s Paradise, nurtures the creative process. She wanted other artists to have the same opportunity to live and work at the site that had fostered so much of her own artistic expression. To that end, the Ontario …
The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence is awarded to the single best submission in the respective categories of poetry and fiction. This year, the writing contest will be judged by Michael Redhill (fiction) and Souvankham Thammavongsa (poetry). This year the prize includes $1,000 for the winners in fiction …
Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and later became the kernel of her acclaimed collection Say Something Back (Picador). The poem’s prose counterpart Time Lived, Without Its Flow was initially published …
Fred Cogswell mentored Candice James, the New Westminster poet laureate and a founding member of Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS). He spent his last years in New Westminster, writing his last books here. The award is intended to honour his dedication both to the craft of poetry and to …