Writer Leslie Greentree debuts her first art show, triptychs of photos and text poking around themes of death and loss from oblique angles. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
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 …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
Brenda Shaughnessy reads at the Vermont Studio Center in an event sponsored by the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop moderated by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In January, we explore syntax, the structure poet Ellen Bryant Voigt argues is “the essential drama to the poem’s composition.” The group will explore a wide variety of syntactic structures and …
The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the writing, reading, performance, and appreciation of poetry – by presenting an annual festival and other poetry events in Palm Beach County – featuring America’s finest poets. The 14th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be presented in …
This award is a program created by the League of Canadian Poets' National Council to promote the art of Haiku, and to celebrate Haiku Month in February! The winner of the Haiku contest will receive 10 t-shirts printed with the winning poem, and will have their work featured on the …
We’re calling the four corners. We’re calling magic makers of all kinds. We’re calling for spells for survival, tinctures of remedy, gossip, renewal rituals, new moon intentions, full moon feels, astrology memes. We want writing that plays between the worlds, that conjures new worlds, that heals the world we live …
This contest is for those who come to keep the seats warm at The Tree Reading Series, those who come to the Seed workshops, or are regulars at the Tree open mic readings. The prize is now $250 and ten copies of your chapbook! Learn more here. Return to the …
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 …
For those interested in developing their own poetry, Donny O'Rourke is offering a new class open to poets at every level of ability, experience and ambition. This exciting new class begins on Wednesday, 17th January, 2018, but enrolment is ongoing. Donny's many 'graduates' have gone on to gain praise, prizes …
The Single Onion is Calgary’s longest-running poetry reading series, bringing Canada’s finest poets to its dedicated audience at Shelf Life Books. This event is curated by Metis poet and Inkspot Collective member Cobra Collins. Join Single Onion for an evening of poetry, performance, and tales of resilience, from Treaty 7 …
“What better way is there to memorialize a writer than to read what he has written and remember who he was in all those worlds of words he was brave and confident enough to imagine in the first place?” These words from Hilton Als’s remembrance of Derek Walcott, who died …
On January 19, 2018 at 7 pm, you are invited to join 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Liz Howard for a reading and conversation with Montréal writer and professor Gail Scott at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. Learn more here and here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
All knife | fork | book readings events are generally Friday nights. Doors 6:30 | Poetry 7-ish. unless noted otherwise. Check the knife | fork | book web site or twitter feed for any updates. This event features readings by Shannon Bramer, Catherine Graham and Jessica Hiemstra. Learn more here. …
A day of poetry inspired by randomness and uncertainty. Listening to half-tuned radios, following strangers, translating dog barks, etc. Working backwards from nonsense (nb. results could still be very stupid). We will try out some tested approaches (borrowed from Conceptual Writing, Chaos Magick, Dada) as well as devising some of …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and …
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 …
#TwitterPoetryClub meets on Twitter, on alternating Monday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST. Their formula is pretty simple: members share beloved or interesting poems by posting the poet's name, hashtagging "TwitterPoetryClub" and including an image of the poem and/or a link to the full text. Once a poem …
Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada's longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers …
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 …
An ideal environment for artistic inspiration and growth, Writing Studio is structured to provide an extended period of uninterrupted writing time, one-on-one editorial assistance from experienced writers/editors, and an opportunity to engage with a community of working writers. Faculty for this session, which runs April 30 to June 2, 2018 …
At each meeting, Parkland Poets will feature three readers who have signed up in advance to deliver a 10-minute reading. Following the featured readers, there will be an open mic session, where audience members can sign up (on the night itself) to deliver a brief 2-minute reading. Learn more here. …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and …
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 …
The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity …
Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999), this award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry. Awarded collection is selected through an annual competition which is open to all poets. Award is $3000, publication of the awarded collection by Red Hen Press, and a …
The Indigenous Voices Awards aim to support Indigenous literary production in its diversity and complexity, understanding Indigenous literatures to include but not be limited to novels, creative non-fiction, short stories, poetry, orality, graphic novels, comics, slam, drama, music lyrics, screenwriting, and other forms. The awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous …
Write one haiku a day for the month of February! Why February? Because it’s the shortest month - for the world’s shortest genre of poetry. Join poets around the world who pledge to write at least one haiku a day for National Haiku Writing Month during the year’s shortest month. …
Zócalo Public Square, the Los Angeles-based ideas magazine, is now accepting submissions for its seventh annual poetry prize, which is awarded to the U.S. poet whose poem best evokes a connection to place. The winning poet in 2018 will receive $500, a published interview, and deliver a public reading of …
In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and …