Motionpoems commissions independent filmmakers to produce short films based on poetry. Season 8 features two indigenous films by ASU Professor and Poet Natalie Diaz, "Cranes, Mafiosos and a Polaroid Camera" and "American Arithmetic". Other poets include Tiana Clark, Eve L. Ewing, Peter LaBerge, Robin Coste Lewis, Susannah Nevison, Danez Smith, …
Brenda Schmidt, poet laureate of Saskatchewan, and author Bill Robertson will be sharing pieces from their published works. This event is sponsored by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild. Learn more here.
Since 2011, The Word On The Street Lethbridge has proudly hosted a wide and diverse range of literary talent from across Canada. Their eighth annual festival, celebrating reading and literacy with the Lethbridge Public Library, is shaping up to be another great one. Learn more here.
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 9 to December 9, except October 7, 21 and December 2), participants in person and online read and write through the works of Harryette Mullen: Recyclopedia, Sleeping with the Dictionary and a book interviews. These books will generate conversation and strategies for …
The Al & Eurithe Purdy A-Frame is open to the public Saturday, September 22nd and Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 between 10am and 4pm. Check out the restorations and see where Al wrote many of his best-known poems, including "The Country North of Belleville". There will be information handouts and friendly …