Category: International Events

Title: Poetry Seminar with August Kleinzahler

Location: Claremont, California, US
Description: August Kleinzahler brings his often provocative understanding of the craft of poetry to the Claremont McKenna College during a month-long residency under the auspices of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. His visit to campus includes a regular weekly seminar, Oct. 30-Nov.27, with interested students titled “Speed, Compression, Kablooey: Paris, New York and the New Poetries.”

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Date: November 20, 2012

Title: Poetry Seminar with August Kleinzahler

Location: Claremont, California, US
Description: August Kleinzahler brings his often provocative understanding of the craft of poetry to the Claremont McKenna College during a month-long residency under the auspices of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. His visit to campus includes a regular weekly seminar, Oct. 30-Nov.27, with interested students titled “Speed, Compression, Kablooey: Paris, New York and the New Poetries.”

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Date: November 13, 2012

Title: Poetry Seminar with August Kleinzahler

Location: Claremont, California, US
Description: August Kleinzahler brings his often provocative understanding of the craft of poetry to the Claremont McKenna College during a month-long residency under the auspices of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. His visit to campus includes a regular weekly seminar, Oct. 30-Nov.27, with interested students titled “Speed, Compression, Kablooey: Paris, New York and the New Poetries.”

Learn more here.

Date: November 6, 2012

Title: Poetry Seminar with August Kleinzahler

Location: Claremont, California, US
Description: August Kleinzahler brings his often provocative understanding of the craft of poetry to the Claremont McKenna College during a month-long residency under the auspices of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. His visit to campus includes a regular weekly seminar, Oct. 30-Nov.27, with interested students titled “Speed, Compression, Kablooey: Paris, New York and the New Poetries.”

Learn more here.

Date: October 30, 2012

Title: Glyn Maxwell: On Poetry

Location: London, England
Description: Glyn Maxwell offers us a guide to reading poetry in seven chapters: ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Form’, ‘Pulse’, ‘Chime’, ‘Space’ and ‘Time’. Described by Katy Evans-Bush in Poetry Review as being ‘as highly charged as a stick of poetry dynamite’, On Poetry sold out its first printing in less than a week.

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Date: November 22, 2012

Title: Pierre Nepveu, Nyla Matuk, Susan Glickman read at Drawn and Quarterly

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: Pierre Nepveu, award-winning poet and novelist who has edited the French anthology for Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie, joins fellow poets Nyla Matuk and Susan Glickman as they all read from new works at the Drawn and Quarterly bookstore.

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Date: November 8, 2012

Title: NAC English Theatre presents Dionne Brand’s thirsty

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: In 1978, Alan, a Jamaican man, was killed in his Toronto home by police. And for the women in his life – his widow, daughter, and mother – the memory of the event still reverberates, fresh and raw. Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize and NAC Playwright in Residence, Dionne Brand evoked this heartbreaking experience based on her lyrical poem, thirsty. Her gripping adaptation for the stage, presented at Canada’s National Arts Centre, adds a new dimension to this story of loss, suffering, and abandonment, revealing the scars left on the family and society. Cultural confrontation turns into tragedy, captured in the victim’s dying word: “thirsty”.

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Start Date: November 5, 2012
End Date: November 17, 2012

Title: Poems on the Underground

Location: London, England
Description: The first ‘Poems on the Underground’ appeared in 1986, the brainchild of writers and friends Judith Chernaik, Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert. More than a quarter of a century later they are still appearing, and have become an indispensable part of the commuting life of many millions of Londoners.

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Date: November 14, 2012

Title: Poetry and Revision: A Poetry Masterclass with Roo Borson

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Description: Occasionally, a writer will come up with a poem that seems particularly recalcitrant, impervious to attempts at revision, and the poem remains both promising and stuck in a long-term rut. This workshop, lead by Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 winner Roo Borson, will focus on strategies for revision.

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Date: November 4, 2012

Title: Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award submission deadline

Location: Canada
Description: Prairie Fire is now accepting entries for the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, Short Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction Contests. Although the deadline is November 30 (postmarked), you may submit anytime.

The 2012 poetry judge is Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 winner Anne Simpson.

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Date: November 30, 2012