Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: Stars of Contemporary Poetry workshop
Location: Winchester, England
Description: This workshop aims to use the reading of contemporary poetry as a springboard for improving your own writing, as finding out how you can become a published poet. In a relaxed, friendly, group, you will read and discuss a range of excellent poems by leading lights of the UK poetry scene, then use them to inspire and improve your own poetry.
Learn more here.
Date: September 29, 2012
Title: Eliot’s Burnt Norton Day
Location: Gloucestershire, England
Description: It was on a late summer day in September 1934 when, out on his latest country walk with Emily Hale – who was very important to him and had come from America to stay with relatives in Chipping Campden – T S Eliot and she ventured off the road, walked through the woods and found themselves in the upper garden of the estate of a manor house, Burnt Norton.
Visit on Saturday September 22nd the gardens (normally closed to the public) of Burnt Norton in Gloucestershire, where Eliot drew his inspiration for the first of his Four Quartets.
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Date: September 22, 2012
Title: Charles Simic reads at Bucks County Community College
Location: Newtown, Pennsylvania, US
Description: Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000, Charles Simic’s many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is currently Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.
This reading is free and open to the public. Learn more here.
Date: December 7, 2012
Title: Brunel University African Poetry Prize submission deadline
Location: Africa
Description: The Brunel University African Poetry Prize is a major new poetry prize of £3000 aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa. The prize is sponsored by Brunel University and partnered by Commonwealth Writers, the Africa Centre UK, and the African Poetry Book Fund USA. British-Nigerian writer, Bernardine Evaristo, has initiated the prize.
Date: November 30, 2012
Title: Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets submission deadline
Location: Africa
Description: The African Poetry Series has been made possible through seed funding from philanthropists, Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman, whose generous contributions have facilitated the establishment of the African Poetry Book Fund. Mr. and Mrs. Sillerman have also welcomed the use of their name for the First Book Prize for African Poets.
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Date: November 15, 2012
Title: Margaret Atwood accepts Nashville Public Library’s Literary Award
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, US
Description: With all the ongoing controversy over “legitimate rape” and the legislation of women’s bodies by lawmakers who clearly don’t understand them, many online commenters have invoked the dystopian landscape of Margaret Atwood’s classic speculative (or so we hope) novel The Handmaid’s Tale. That makes the choice of Atwood as the recipient of the 2012 Nashville Public Library Literary Award unusually timely.
See also: Nashville Reads – The Handmaid’s Tale
Start Date: October 26, 2012
End Date: October 27, 2012
Title: Louise Gluck Poetry Reading
Location: Williamstown, Massachusetts, US
Description: Louise Glück will give a poetry reading at Williams College on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. in the Paresky Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Glück was appointed the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003–2004, succeeding Billy Collins.
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Date: September 26, 2012
Title: Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English
Location: New York, New York, US
Description: New York’s Poets House presents an evening of readings and celebration in honor of the anthology Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English.
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Date: September 22, 2012
Title: Poetry and Dance: Word Outleaps the World: Readings and Dance
Location: Chicago, Illnois, US
Description: In a salute to the Art Institute of Chicago’s new galleries of ancient art, well-known local actors read passages from such authors as Homer, Plotinus, Sophocles, Seneca, and Virgil, while Hubbard Street dancers interpret images and ideas to measure the impact of this great literature in our own time.
Learn more here.
Date: December 13, 2012
Title: December 31st, a poem by Richard Hoffman
Description: This is the best day on the calendar to consider Richard Hoffman’s poem “December 31st”. Read it here.
Date: December 31, 2012