Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize reading with Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Mike White
Date: November 6, 2017
Location: Washington, DC, US
Description: The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, created in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is awarded annually by The Waywiser Press for a poetry collection by a poet who has published no more than one previous book of verse. The award includes publication with a $3,000 prize. Prize judge Gjertrud Schnackenberg and prize winner Mike White will read.
Title: When I Sat Down to Play the Piano: Compositions Inspired by the Poetry of Al Purdy
Date: November 5, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Gerry Shatford Trio will perform and poet Paul Vermeersch will narrate in an event for which all proceeds will be donated to the Al Purdy A Frame Trust.
Title: Poetry in Aldeburgh
Start Date: November 3, 2017
End Date: November 5, 2017
Location: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
Description: Poetry In Aldeburgh is a not-for-profit organisation that plans to build on and continue the heritage of poetry and poetry festivals in the Suffolk Coastal area over almost three decades.
Title: Walt Whitman Award submission deadline
Date: November 1, 2017
Location: US
Description: The Walt Whitman Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in the Umbrian region of Italy, and distribution of the winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members.
This year’s judge for the Walt Whitman Award is Joy Harjo.
Title: Call For Poets: the TheoArtistry Poets’ Scheme
Date: October 31, 2017
Description: This project offers poets the opportunity to work with Michael Symmons Roberts, Sir James MacMillan and researchers from ITIA (the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts) on a new poem during StAnza 2018. Poets are invited to apply for the TheoArtistry Poets’ Scheme, a collaboration between StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, and ITIA, both based in St Andrews, Fife.
Title: A Celebration of 10 Years of The Best Canadian Poetry
Date: October 29, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Chosen from the first nine volumes of this innovative series, the anniversary volume takes the pulse of the last decade of Canadian poetry with ninety superb poems that have excelled—twice—at the test of Best. Join series editors Molly Peacock and Anita Lahey, previous guest editors, and a constellation of Canada’s twice-tested poet-contributors for a special tribute to ten stellar years of this landmark series.
Participants include Peter Chiykowski, George Elliott Clarke, Jacob McArthur Mooney, Cara-Lyn Morgan, A.F. Moritz, Elizabeth Ross, David Seymour, Bardia Sinaee, Karen Solie, Carmine Starnino and Priscila Uppal.
Title: #todayspoem
Date: December 8, 2017
Description: 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 to spur a moment of delight or recognition or, handily favorited in Twitter, is a lovely bookmark for future poetry explorations.
Title: #todayspoem
Date: March 15, 2018
Description: 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 to spur a moment of delight or recognition or, handily favorited in Twitter, is a lovely bookmark for future poetry explorations.
Title: #todayspoem
Date: November 6, 2017
Description: 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 to spur a moment of delight or recognition or, handily favorited in Twitter, is a lovely bookmark for future poetry explorations.
Title: The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
Start Date: May 3, 2018
End Date: May 6, 2018
Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) celebrates diversity in literature by promoting diverse authors and stories in Brampton, Ontario – one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities.