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 …
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 …
Join Goose Lane Editions authors Matthew Walsh, Amy Spurway and Philip Huynh for a delightful evening of literary charm. This event is free and open to the public. Learn more here.
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 8 to December 1, except October 13 and November 24), participants in person and online read and write through One with Others by C.D. Wright. Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the …
Join Librairie Drawn & Quarterly as they celebrate the launch of Billy-Ray Belcourt's latest book, NDN Coping Mechanisms. In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to …