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 …
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 …
Attention all you word-braiders, CV2 is rooting for poems that address, in any wave, shave or comb, the filamentous outgrowth experience known as hair! Send CV2 your comet-tailed, sun-tressed, folliculared, oiled, feathered, nappy-happied, blue-rinsed, back-combed, dreadlocked, towel-dried, ingrown, overgrown, turbaned, receding, ice-lashed, wigged-out, whiskered, weaved, cornrowed, jheri-curled, hot-waxed, teased, tweezed, …
In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough …
The Hot-Sauced Words 9th Annual Poetry Anti-Pageant Show in support of The Daily Bread Foodbank features the a capella group Kirsten Sandwich plus seasonal readings by Susan Lynn Reynolds, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Allan Briesmaster and Nicki Ward, and will include the seasonal open mic. All performers are waiving their honorariums …