The next Dead Poets reading will take place at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch on July 9th, 2017, from 3-5 PM. The reading will be hosted in the Alice MacKay Room, which is located one floor below the entry concourse. It will feature: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 …
The TS Eliot Festival is an inspirational day of talks, readings, and discussions on the occasion of the centenary of TS Eliot’s first published collection, Prufrock and Other Observations. The celebrated novelist Ali Smith will read The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and discuss it with biographer Adam Begley. …
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop led by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In July, they examine the eclogue, a short dialogue or soliloquy that most often takes a pastoral theme. The group will read and discuss a wide variety of eclogues. A creative …
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 …
This two-week literary residency nurtures a new frame of contemporary Canadian writing. Increasingly, today’s writer is participating in acts of acknowledgement, reclamation, restoration, and resurgence regarding minority, diasporic, and Indigenous histories. This year, 2017, provides an opportunity to take pause, pivot, and create space to think about these histories, and …