Birthdate of Kamau Brathwaite
2006 Griffin Poetry Prize winner Kamau Brathwaite was born on this date in 1930. Learn more about Kamau Brathwaite here and here.
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Hot Ottawa Voices and Chapbook Award at Tree Reading Series
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
John Ashbery’s Breezeway published
With more than twenty poetry collections to his name, John Ashbery is one of our most agile, philosophically complex, and visionary poets. In Breezeway, Ashbery's powers of observation are at their most astute; his insight at its most penetrating. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
Galway Kinnell Memorial Reading
Join the Poetry Society of America as they celebrate the life and work of poet Galway Kinnell (1927-2014), with Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Hass, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mirah Kozodoy, Sharon Olds, Myra Shapiro, Gerald Stern, and C.K. Williams. The event is …
Douglas, Childs and Lliw at the art bar poetry series
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 …