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Title: Soulpepper production of Dennis Lee’s Alligator Pie

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Alligator Pie, an original Soulpepper production, brings the celebrated children’s poems of Canada’s Father Goose, Dennis Lee, to vibrant theatrical life. Soulpepper’s creation ensemble (Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross), fill the stage with music, invention and Lee’s delicious imagination.

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Start Date: October 26, 2012
End Date: November 25, 2012

Title: Found in Translation Award presented to Joanna Trzeciak

Location: Columbus, Ohio, US
Description: The Found in Translation award is given annually to the translator of the finest publication of Polish literature in English to have appeared in book form during the preceding calendar year and recognizes the great importance of the original text. The winner receives a monetary award and a three-month residency in Kraków funded by the Polish Book Institute.

The 2012 winner is Joanna Trzeciak for her translation of Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz.

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Date: October 26, 2012

Title: Poet Summit: How the Poem Changes Us reading/roundtable at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA)

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Poets discuss how great poems shape and affect how we see the world.

This event features Roo Borson, Phil Hall, Don McKay and the winner of the CBC Poetry Prize. The CBC’s Garvia Bailey hosts and moderates.

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Date: October 20, 2012

Title: Birthdate of Carolyn Forché

Location: United States
Description: Griffin trustee Carolyn Forché was born on this date in 1950.

Learn more about Carolyn Forché here and here.

Date: April 28, 2013

Title: Dennis Lee in conversation with Brad Cran at Vancouver Writers Fest

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations. For the past 25 years, the Writers Fest has enriched imaginations and the culture of Vancouver and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation. The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists.

Say “Alligator Pie” and you think of Dennis Lee. But Lee has comfortably straddled the worlds of children’s imagination and adult concerns since he began writing more than 40 years ago, wearing many different literary hats along the way.

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Date: October 21, 2012

Title: Margaret Atwood, Dionne Brand and others discuss Atwood’s Survival at Vancouver Writers Fest

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations. For the past 25 years, the Writers Fest has enriched imaginations and the culture of Vancouver and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation. The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists.

On the 40th anniversary of the publication of Margaret Atwood’s Survival, six significant voices from the Canadian literary scene – Atwood, Dionne Brand, Louise Dennys, Graeme Gibson, Emily Schultz and Aritha Van Herk – talk about the flowering of Canadian literature, which has been cause for national pride.

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Date: October 20, 2012

Title: Vancouver Writers Fest

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations. For the past 25 years, the Writers Fest has enriched imaginations and the culture of Vancouver and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation. The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists.

Learn more here.

Start Date: October 16, 2012
End Date: October 21, 2012

Title: Luminate Poetry Slam

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Scotland has a vibrant poetry scene – from the Islands to the Borders and every conceivable place in between, with performance poetry gathering momentum among all age groups. Slams are a great opportunity to hear a range of performers who compete for a place in the finals. Hilarious, sentimental, bawdy, political, romantic, philosophical – there’s no way of knowing until the event starts. Take up the challenge or join the audience. Either way you’ll be hooked!

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Date: October 14, 2012

Title: Academy of American Poets – 2012 Poets Forum

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: The Academy of American Poets welcomes everyone to New York City for a series of events exploring the ever-changing landscape of contemporary poetry in America. The Forum will feature in-depth discussions with an array of distinguished poets, readings, lectures, publication parties, and a selection of poet-led literary walking tours throughout Manhattan.

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Start Date: October 18, 2012
End Date: October 20, 2012

Title: Festival International de la Poésie

Location: Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Description: The Festival International de la Poésie (English: International Festival of Poetry) is an annual poetry festival held in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.

In the late ’70s, the idea of promoting a large-scale event around poetry hatched in the mind of the co-founder of the Écrits des Forges publishing house, Gaston Bellemare. He was saddened to see how much the media ignored poetry. After much reflection, he came to the unequivocal conclusion that someone had to create an event that would arouse the general public’s interest. People had to meet poets in everyday places.

In the fall of 1985, one year after the Fondation Les Forges Inc. was born, the International Poetry Festival was to forever change Trois-Rivières. Invited to the very first edition, Quebec’s great singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc declared Trois-Rivières to be “the Poetry Capital.” Eighty Quebec poets and 5,000 poetry fans came to first Poetry Festival!

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Start Date: September 28, 2012
End Date: October 7, 2012