Louise Glück will give a poetry reading at Williams College on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. in the Paresky Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Glück was appointed the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003–2004, succeeding Billy Collins. Learn more here.
Poetry London was created by poet Cornelia Hoogland in partnership with the Landon Branch Library in the fall of 2004 to serve as a focus for poetry in London, Ontario. Poetry London celebrates accomplished local poets, and also cooperates with several other Ontario venues to provide national poets multi-stop Ontario …
Kingston WritersFest was launched in 2006 by a core group of dedicated and hardworking volunteers under the auspices of Kingston Frontenac Public Library and Kingston Literacy. In 2009, Kingston WritersFest was expanded and revamped to bring the widest range and most exciting programming possible to this community of readers. Still …
Part of a national series, this program explores the role of politics in the literary landscape today. Poets Suji Kwock Kim, Li-Young Lee and D. Nurske will take part, and Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America, will moderate. Learn more here.
The Real Vancouver Writers’ Series is proud to announce their first event of the 2012 fall season: Real Vancouver BookThug. In the first of a series of collaborations with independent publishers they’re happy to showcase 5 amazing local writers who have published with one of the finest publishing houses in …