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Title: Zócalo Public Square’s Seventh Annual Poetry Prize submission deadline

Date: February 2, 2018

Location: US
Description: 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 the winning poem at the annual Book Prize award ceremony in Los Angeles. There is no fee to enter this contest.

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Title: #twitterpoetryclub

Date: January 22, 2018

Description: #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 is posted, everyone is free to discuss the work, retweet, and share more poems. Members can also subscribe to meeting minutes, which include links to the books where shared poems can be found, at tinyletter.com/twitterpoetryclub.

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Title: Parkland Poets Reading Series

Date: February 22, 2018

Location: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Description: 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.

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Title: Parkland Poets Reading Series

Date: February 8, 2018

Location: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Description: 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.

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Title: Parkland Poets Reading Series

Date: January 25, 2018

Location: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Description: 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.

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Title: Verve Poetry Festival

Start Date: February 15, 2018
End Date: February 18, 2018

Location: Birmingham, UK
Description: Verve is a four day festival of world class poetry and spoken word, with readings, performances, workshops, children’s events and more in the heart of Birmingham city centre.

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Title: Brenda Shaughnessy reading

Date: January 11, 2018

Location: Johnson, Vermont, US
Description: Brenda Shaughnessy reads at the Vermont Studio Center in an event sponsored by the Rona Jaffe Foundation.

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Title: A Celebration of Derek Walcott

Date: January 18, 2018

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: “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 earlier this year, inspire this tribute to the poet, hailed “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision” when awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992.

Taking part in the tribute are Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Robert Antoni, Carolyn Forché, Lorna Goodison, Jamaica Kincaid, Karl Kirchwey, Yusef Komunyakaa, Glyn Maxwell and Caryl Phillips.

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Title: White Noise poetry workshop

Date: January 20, 2018

Location: London, England
Description: 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 our own.

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Title: Forms and Features: Syntax

Date: January 13, 2018

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
Description: 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 styles. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing an original poem, will conclude the session.

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