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 …
Rhina P. Espaillat reads from And After All and Toni Treadway reads from Late Harvest, followed by book signings. Learn more here.
Enjoy an evening of poetry by Kim Fahner and Kelly Norah Drukker. These two poets will share their work, and then copies will be available for sale and signing. Light refreshments will also be served. Learn more here.
Each year we invite our audience to be challenged, be entertained, to learn and be inspired through a buzzing program of storytelling, conversation and discussion, intellectual debate, educational programs, live performance, music and art events. The Festival includes events for people of all ages and more than a quarter of …
Erasure poetry begins with an existing piece of text. Letters, words and punctuation are removed—or erased. What is left behind is a new stand-alone poem, one that both complements and gives new meaning to the Erasure Text. The Erasure Text for the 2019 Geist Erasure Poetry Contest is an excerpt …