For her recently released anthology, The Black Prairie Archive, Karina Vernon spent 15 years researching and resurrecting writings from 19th century Black pioneers and contextualizes them alongside contemporary Canadian writers. Through this new anthology, a new perspective on Western Canada, informed by Black voices, is explored in relationship to the …
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 …
Canadian poet Lillian Allen, the “godmother of dub,” has been chosen as Vancouver Island University's 2020-21 Gustafson Distinguished Poet. On February 10, Allen will offer a reading/performance, followed by a Q&A. On February 11, Allen will deliver the Gustafson Lecture. Allen’s talk will discuss the history and practice of dub …
InkWell Workshops presents an online poetry workshop with Griffin Poetry Prize winner Liz Howard. In this workshop, participants will read and write poetry exploring the relationship between the land we live on and our interior worlds. No experience is necessary. Learn more here.
Experience the joy of writing poetry and sharing it with others in this short term, virtual 4-H special interest (SPIN) Club. Ohio State University offers this program, and will use the writing of poetry to connect and communicate with others in an engaging way by creating videos with Flipgrid and …