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 …
"I have all these open-ended questions and by December I'm supposed to have them answered!" When you come to the open-ended end of things--the degree, the course, the relationship--how much can be planned, how much can be known? In this workshop as the year ends, Writers' Co-op will explore the …
Jonathan C. Creasy (editor of BLACK MOUNTAIN POEMS/New Directions, 2019) explores two remarkable artistic and educational experiments of the 20th century: Black Mountain College and the Cambridge-based Poets' Theatre. Distinct as they were, both reveal continuing concerns in art, poetry, performance & politics. The event culminates in the screening of …
With the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie recitation contests, students choose classic and contemporary poems from the junior anthology for grades 6-8. Then they learn them deeply, commit them to memory, hone their recitation skills, and compete for over $75,000 in travel and prizes. Learn more …
The 2019-2020 Writers Read Concordia season emphasizes the local, the influencers, the activist, the transformative, the conversation and the collaborative impulses. Writers Read Concordia hosts a feminist writing panel featuring Sue Sinclair, Sue Goyette and Larissa Lai in conversation with Sina Queyras as part of Writing Lives. Learn more here.