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Title: Fahner, Hartsfield and Akinlolu at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: February 6, 2018

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: 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 enjoy one of the oldest arts.

This week’s offering features Kim Fahner, Carla Hartsfield and Segun Akinlolu.

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Title: Tysdals group, Coluccio and Tolmie at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: January 30, 2018

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: 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 enjoy one of the oldest arts.

This week’s offering features Tysdals group, Pino Coluccio and Sarah Tolmie.

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Title: Liz Howard Poetry Reading at Drawn and Quarterly

Date: January 19, 2018

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: 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.

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Title: Bramer, Graham and Hiemstra at knife | fork | book

Date: January 19, 2018

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: 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.

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Title: 2017 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award submission deadline

Date: January 31, 2018

Description: Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999), this award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry.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 four-week PLAYA Residency.

This year’s final judge is Richard Blanco.

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Title: Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize submission deadline

Date: January 15, 2018

Location: US
Description: The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize supports the publication of a first full-length book of poems by a Latinx poet.

The winning poet will receive $1000 and a contract from University of Notre Dame Press. Upon publication of the winning book, Letras Latinas will extend an invitation to both the winner and the judge to give a joint reading at Notre Dame.

The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize is awarded every other year. There is no entry fee.

This year’s judge is Ada Limón.

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Title: Rattle Chapbook Prize submission deadline

Date: January 15, 2018

Description: While most chapbook contests offer maybe $500 and 25 copies of your chapbook, Rattle is going to give one poet something special. Every year, at least one winner will receive:

 

In a world where a bestselling full-length poetry book means 1,000 copies sold, the winner will reach an audience seven times as large on the first day alone—an audience that includes hundreds of other literary magazines, presses, and well-known poets. This will be a chapbook to launch a career.

Learn more here.

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Title: National Poetry Month (Canada, US, UK)

Start Date: April 1, 2018
End Date: April 30, 2018

Location: Canada, US, UK
Description: National Poetry Month is a month-long celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and observed since 1999 in Canada. As the Academy of American Poets states, National Poetry Month is meant to widen the attention of individuals and the media to the art of poetry, to living poets, to the nation’s complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern. National Poetry Month events and initiatives increase the visibility and availability of poetry in popular culture while acknowledging and celebrating poetry’s ability to sustain itself in the many places where it is practiced and appreciated.

Learn more about National Poetry Month via the Academy of American Poets, the League of Canadian Poets and UK Book Trade’s National Poetry Month.

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Title: National Poetry Month.ca submission deadline

Date: February 28, 2018

Description: Please send poetry, collages, book art, altered books, graphic comics, asemic writing, visual art, visual poems, imaginary letters and anything else you can think of that makes readers question their ideas of what poetry is for consideration for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018. Especially welcomed is work by the following groups: women, people of colour, disabled, indigenous and genderqueer writers. We will consider work by writers and artists from all over the world, including translations into English, provided there aren’t copyright issues.

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Title: National Poetry Month.ca

Start Date: April 1, 2018
End Date: April 30, 2018

Description: Amanda Earl of AngelHousePress started NationalPoetryMonth.ca in 2009 as an alternative to institutionalized celebrations of poetry with the goal of expanding preconceived notions of what poetry is or means. NationalPoetryMonth.ca is a celebration of the nation of poetry. Poetry is a land of risk, play, meditation, provocation and delight. It cannot be contained within borders and should not be restricted by boundaries of any kind. Through the month of April, you will find poems that explore boundaries and break through barriers. The creators of these poems come from all over the world. Ideally the poems will inspire more poetry, will serve to continue the conversation that poetry creates, a conversation that is not limited by time, place, form, age, gender, sexual orientation, political orientation, religion or financial constraints. The site is free and all of the poets have graciously given their poems without payment in any type of currency except your reading pleasure.

Learn more here.

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