The Woodstock Bookshop started and runs Woodstock Poetry Festival, a completely independent festival that has now been running for seven years. This year's poets taking part include Raymond Antrobus, Niall Campbell, Vidyan Ravinthiram, Hannah Sullivan, Mary Jean Chan and more. Learn more here.
Sheri-D Wilson, Poet Laureate of Calgary, is sending out a call out to the community, the entire city and the world — I invite you, to write a portrait in the form of a poem, prose poem, or snapshot/ flash fiction — about someone you know (not about yourself) that …
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 …
The raison d'être of Lunch Poems is to invite and welcome everyone to enjoy poetry in a relaxed and casual atmosphere: whether you are new to poetry or have had a long romance with it. Lunch Poems at SFU invites you to join them to lunch on words and feed …
The Poetry London Reading Series, in partnership with the London Public Library, hosts monthly readings and poetry workshops in London, Ontario. They bring a diverse list of Canada’s finest poets into London for readings, as well as providing a wide range of poetry-related opportunities for local writers and poetry aficionados. …