Get Tickets Through Eventbrite Verses Festival of Words is at it again! We are bringing together a broad intersection of poetic artists, including spoken word and page poets, storytellers, singer-songwriters and improvisers, to celebrate the power of the spoken word. This year’s festival combines poetry with music inspired by a …
The Edmonton Poetry Festival is Edmonton’s annual celebration of poetry and verse. The best place to get a grasp on the basics and history of the festival is by reading our story. There, you’ll find a brief history of the festival with several points of interest. Additionally, the following links may …
19:00 workshop by Sarah Tsiang 20:00 EST open mic. 20:30 Sarah Tsiang and Hari Alluri On Tuesday, April 26, Tree is excited to welcome featured readers Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang and Hari Alluri, hosted by Brandon Wint. Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is the author of Grappling Hook with Palimpsest Press (2022), Status …
Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) is Toronto’s most diverse and brave monthly poetry reading and open mic series. It was founded by Bänoo Zan in November 2012, two years after she immigrated to Canada. Since then, we have been bridging the gap among diverse Toronto poetry communities and have so far …
Claudia Rankine was a 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize judge. She is Professor of Creative Writing at NYU, chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the author of many works, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), The White Card: A Play (2019),and Just Us (2020). NYU English's Creative Reading Series will be a hybrid event. …
The Academy of American Poets annual gala presents luminaries from across the arts sharing favorite poems for National Poetry Month. About this event Poetry & the Creative Mind is presented by the Academy of American Poets, the nation's leading organization championing poets and poetry. This special event, which features actors, …
University of Alberta Press is pleased to announce its annual event Literary Cocktails. Please join us online on April 28, 2022 at 6 pm MT. Everyone is welcome! This year, the virtual poetry reading event will be hosted by Edmonton Poetry Festival’s Artistic Producer, Shima Robinson. The event will feature readings …
Join us for an evening of poetry and music. In the Winter 2002 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine , the 1st Annual Diana Brebner Prize winner was announced. After 20 years of administering this award for an exceptional poem by an Ottawa-based poet not yet published in book form, Arc 97 looks back at the …
Canadian Individual Poetry Slam is a nationally recognized poetry slam. This year, the competition will take place online and in-person , as part of the Verses Festival of Words. 16 poets representing spoken word series and regions across Canada will compete in a head-to-head double knock out tournament, presenting poems that …
Vallum’s Chapbook Series has published work from Bhanu Kapil, Sina Queyras, Nicole Brossard, George Elliott Clarke, Erín Moure, Franz Wright, Fanny Howe, John Kinsella, and many more. Past winners of the Vallum Chapbook Award have won the bpNichol Chapbook Prize, been nominated for the Nelson Ball Prize for poetry of …
April 30th 2022 will see Poetry Spring at St John’s College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets, including two past Griffin Poetry Prize winners: Valzhyna Mort and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Other guests include Anita Pati and Denise Saul, with a workshop by Holly Corfield …
Ani Gjika is among the most prolific and renowned translators of contemporary Albanian literature today. Translator of a wide range of Albanian authors, sensibilities, and literary genres, and a poet herself, her work is a testament to the versatility, cultural mediation or brokering, and nimbleness that is central to the …
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) celebrates Canadian and international authors every year at its flagship festival in May. This year’s festival will be held online from May 1 – 7, 2022 with a few in-person events held in Brampton, Ontario May 6 and 7 at the Rose Theatre. Click …
Start the Presses! We hope you will join us for the 21st Annual New York City Independent Publishers Book Party at James Cohan Gallery on Thursday, May 5th from 6-8pm. Drinks will be served. This event is free and open to all! Featuring: Belladonna* Birds, LLC Black Square Editions Black Sun Lit …
The PEN World Voices Literary Festival is the premier celebration of international literature in the United States, a landmark event on New York City’s, and now Los Angeles’s, cultural calendar. Join us live and in person in New York City and Los Angeles from May 11–14, 2022 for four days …
One of the most anticipated events on the social calendar, The Walrus Gala is an exhilarating annual fundraiser in which industry leaders and the culturally curious gather in support of critical conversations and fact-based journalism in Canada. We are thrilled to be able to reunite with our community in person …
HAPPENING Multicultural Poetry Nights celebrate poets who, among other things, identify as newcomers, refugees, or immigrants. Every Thursday in May (5, 12, 19, 16), there will be a poetry event featuring three poetry readings and an interview. Despite the fact that poetry inhabits many geographical locations and speaks in different …
Live Canon is delighted to be receiving entries for our 2022 International Poetry Competition for single poems. 50 poems will be selected to be published in our 2022 anthology. 20 poems will be shortlisted and performed at our prize-giving. 1 poem will be selected to win the first prize of …
At 11 Cortlandt Alley and on Zoom Join the event here This reading is presented as part of the Segue Reading Series. Jerome Sala’s books include Corporations Are People, Too!, The Cheapskates, Look Slimmer Instantly and the forthcoming How Much? New and Selected Poems from NYQ Books. His blog—on poetry, pop culture and everyday life—is espresso bongo. Sarah …
Guelph Poetry Slam welcomes you back for our monthly poetry slam! Come experience live POETRY! Sign up to slam for your chance at the $100 prize. Not a competitive kinda person? Sign up for open mic. COVID INFO Masks encouraged Social distancing encouraged if possible, but space won't always allow …
The Montreal International Poetry Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in …
Holly Melgard curates the 87th Radical Poetry Reading with Diana Hamilton, Liz Howard, Syd Staiti, and Chris Sylvester. Poet Diana Hamilton is the author of three books: God Was Right (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Awful Truth (Golias Books), and Okay, Okay (Truck Books). Poet Liz Howard’s debut collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and …
HAPPENING Multicultural Poetry Nights celebrate poets who, among other things, identify as newcomers, refugees, or immigrants. Every Thursday in May (5, 12, 19, 26), there will be a poetry event featuring three poetry readings and an interview. Despite the fact that poetry inhabits many geographical locations and speaks in different …
On Friday, May 27 at 6pm PT, join Nightwood Editions and Massy Books for an evening of poetry reading, featuring Vancouver poet Gillian Jerome’s launch of her second book, Nevertheless, and Victoria poet Maleea Acker’s launch of her third book of poems, Hesitating Once to Feel Glory, with opening guest, …
A leading Canadian poet and an international exponent of dub poetry, Lillian Allen was acclaimed a foremother of Canadian poetry by the League of Canadian Poets. She is a two-time Canadian Juno award winner for her albums of dub poetry, Revolutionary Tea Party and Conditions Critical. She is an arts …
2021 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Joseph Dandurand is headlining the 17th annual Northwords NWT festival this May! Register for a workshop with him on Sunday, May 29th in Yellowknife!
Armand Garnet Ruffo, Megan Gail Coles and Hoa Nguyen will judge the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize. The CBC Poetry Prize recognizes an original, unpublished poem or collection of poems, up to 600 words in length. There is no minimum word requirement. The deadline to submit is May 31, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The winner will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council …
Brick Books publishes full-length poetry collections of the highest quality by both new and established writers. While our definition of poetry is expansive and encompasses many aesthetic modes, we do not publish chapbooks (i.e., books fewer than 48 pages), fiction, or conventional prose nonfiction. Our editors are interested in seeing …
Join us for the next event of Tree Reading Series for 2021-2022 season, organized by Brandon Wint. 20:30 EST On Tuesday, May 31, Tree is excited to welcome featured readers DeShara Suggs-Joe and Malvika Jolly. DeShara is a queer, Black poet and visual artist. She co-founded Daughter’s Tongue (an all-women …
RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Entry is first come, first served, so please make sure to come early if you'd like to grab a spot! Check-in starts at 5:00PM / Ballroom doors open at 6:30PM / Event starts at 7:00PM Join us live and in-person at BRIC House for …
Join Nisa Malli, Catherine Graham, Michael Trussler, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, and David Barrick for the Palimpsest 2022 Spring Launch! With host Jim Johnstone. Register in advance.
The WGA 2022 Conference: Shifting Creative Gears, is scheduled for June 3 – 5, 2022. After two years of trying new digital programs to adapt our literary world to the pandemic, we are now looking at how our creative lives might shift going forward—perhaps we won’t return to “normal,” but …