The first installment of the Sufi Poets Series 2020 season is Pànah, meaning "Shelter" in Farsi, a word suggested by one of the featured poets, Khashayar Mohammadi. This event aims to allow audience members to take shelter and comfort in poetry, story, and music. Proceeds from ticket sales will be …
Applications are now open for Poetry Ireland Introductions 2020, which will offer poets in the early stages of their careers, writing in Irish or English, the opportunity to showcase their?work through workshops and performance. The poets selected for Introductions 2020 will participate in a workshop focused on poetic form and …
In February 1820, Keats wrote to Fanny Brawne that he was ‘looking forward to Health and the Spring’. Let the Poetry Ambassadors relieve your seasonal maladies with their agreeable selection. Learn more here.
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 …
‘When power corrupts,’ John F Kennedy said, ‘poetry cleanses.’ But does it? Scottish Poetry Library's panel discussion-slash-reading will address the issue of poetry and power. Should poets be wary of politicians or embrace the chance ‘to speak truth to power’? Can political poetry go beyond sloganeering? And what about when …