To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Trillium Book Award, the Ontario Media Development Corporation is hosting a series of author readings by several previous winners and last year’s finalists. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and Readings will begin at 7:00 p.m. These readings are free and open to the …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are the most coveted awards for poetry published in Britain and Ireland: they have played a key role in bringing contemporary poetry to the attention of the wider public for over a quarter of a century. March 10th is the deadline by which entries for …
The Growing Room Festival is Room magazine’s inaugural literary festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists. The festival line-up includes Amber Dawn, Marianne Apostolides, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Carleigh Baker, Adèle Barclay and many more. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
In this workshop (which runs most Sundays from January 22nd to April 30th, with some exceptions), participants in person and online will study H.D.’s Collected Poems. Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn …