Title: Shelagh Rogers interviews Walrus Poetry Prize winner Meira Cook
Location: Canada
Description: Shelagh Rogers interviews Walrus Poetry Prize winner Meira Cook on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter.
The Banff Centre Writing Studio application deadline
Title: The Banff Centre Writing Studio application deadline
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Writing Studio is a five-week program offering poets and writers of fiction and other narrative prose the time, space, and support they need to pursue a writing project, with the benefit of editorial consultation. Greg Hollingshead, Karen Solie and Dionne Brand head the faculty for this session, which runs April 29 – June 1, 2013.
Learn more here.
Date: November 15, 2012
Alice Notley and Amy Hollowell read at Poets Live
Title: Alice Notley and Amy Hollowell read at Poets Live
Location: Paris, France
Description: Poets Live is delighted to announce that Alice Notley, Amy Hollowell, and A.N. Other, will read at Le Bal Cafe.
Learn more here.
Date: November 6, 2012
Words Aloud Festival
Title: Words Aloud Festival
Location: Durham, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Words Aloud Festival, celebrating its ninth season, has earned a reputation for presenting the best in spoken word from across Canada and beyond. With nine main stage performances, it’s a magical alchemy of spoken word’s full range.
Learn more here.
Start Date: November 2, 2012
End Date: November 4, 2012
Carl Phillips reads at the University of Arizona Poetry Center
Title: Carl Phillips reads at the University of Arizona Poetry Center
Location: Tucson, Arizona, US
Description: The University of Arizona Poetry Center welcomes Carl Phillips, author of twelve books of poems, most recently Double Shadow, winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Silverchest, forthcoming in 2013. He has also written a book of prose, Coin of the Realm.
Learn more here.
Date: November 1, 2012
September 1913, a poem by W.B. Yeats
Title: September 1913, a poem by W.B. Yeats
Description: This is the best day on the calendar to consider W.B. Yeats’ poem “September 1913”. Read it here.
Date: September 2, 2013
Scottish Poetry Library presents Nothing But the Poem Redux: Robin Robertson
Title: Scottish Poetry Library presents Nothing But the Poem Redux: Robin Robertson
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library’s reading group where they read and explore poems by a well-known poet – no previous knowledge or experience necessary! And this year they’ve added a twist: at each meeting, they’ll also introduce participants to an ‘if you liked this, you might like’ poet whose poems might tickle one’s fancy. This session is devoted to Robin Robertson.
Learn more here.
Date: November 17, 2012
Scottish Poetry Library presents Nothing But the Poem Redux: Robin Robertson
Title: Scottish Poetry Library presents Nothing But the Poem Redux: Robin Robertson
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library’s reading group where they read and explore poems by a well-known poet – no previous knowledge or experience necessary! And this year they’ve added a twist: at each meeting, they’ll also introduce participants to an ‘if you liked this, you might like’ poet whose poems might tickle one’s fancy. This session is devoted to Robin Robertson.
Learn more here.
Date: November 15, 2012
Scottish Poetry Library presents What I Love – What I Hate About Poetry Debate
Title: Scottish Poetry Library presents What I Love – What I Hate About Poetry Debate
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library is hosting a no–holds–barred debate chaired by Robyn Marsack, SPL’s Director, in which playwright David Greig, poet and editor Gerry Cambridge, journalist Alan Taylor and poets Stav Poleg and Liz Lochhead battle it out with you, the audience, to decide – how do we really feel about poetry?
Learn more here.
Date: November 8, 2012
E-Poetry 2013
Title: E-Poetry 2013
Location: London, England
Description: E-Poetry is a renowned biennial international artistic gathering founded on dialog over emerging issues in digital, visual media arts, sound, and language-based arts. Its emphasis is on literary practice in an encompassing sense, i.e., the practice of thinking through engagement with the material aspects of media forms, the building of community, and the exchange of ideas across languages, borders, and ideologies.
Learn more here. (pdf)
Start Date: June 17, 2013
End Date: June 20, 2013