The Winnipeg Public Library is seeking applications for the 2015 - 2016 edition of its Writer-in-Residence program. From an office at Winnipeg's Millennium Library, the Writer-in-Residence will work with emerging Manitoba writers by email and phone as well as through individual consultations, group workshops and public programs within Winnipeg. The …
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 …
2009 Griffin Poetry Prize winner AF Moritz reads from his new book, Sequence, along with fellow poets Ian Burgham (Midnight, Quattro Books), Chris Chambers (Thrillows & Despairos, Wolsak & Wynn) and Catherine Graham (Her Red Hair Rises With the Wings of Insects, Wolsak & Wynn). Learn more here. Return to …
National Poet of Scotland Liz Lochhead headlines a fundraiser for the Scottish Poetry Library. Also on the bill: Edinburgh Makar Christine De Luca, poet Ron Butlin with music by Rudsambee Company of Singers. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
The beautiful cliff-top setting of Sewerby Hall in Bridlington plays host to the annual Bridlington Poetry Festival, which began in 2010. Bridlington Poetry Festival is organised by Wordquake, East Riding Library Service's unique project to promote reading and live literature in the East Riding. Wordquake runs projects across the East …