Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: Bristol Poetry Festival
Location: Bristol, UK
Description: Bristol Poetry Festival brings together the most entertaining, inspirational and award-winning poets and performers from Bristol, the South West, the UK and the World in an annual celebration of language, imagination and life.
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Start Date: September 24, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Fredericton Poetry Weekend
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Description: Poetry Weekend is an annual gathering of poets in Fredericton, New Brunswick, usually on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Readings take place in Memorial Hall at 11am, 2pm, and 8pm Saturday and Sunday.
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Start Date: September 29, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Wakefield Lit Fest
Location: Wakefield, UK
Description: Festival events will include readings from nationally acclaimed writers, workshops with schoolchildren and young people, master classes for local writers, readers events, a book swap and a ‘Poetry Party’ event. We will also commission a new wo
rk to explore the place of writing and reading in a contemporary city centre, which will be performed as part of the festival.
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Start Date: September 22, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Carl Phillips and Eduardo C. Corral read at Folger Shakespeare Library
Location: Washington, DC, US
Description: The Yale Series of Younger Poets champions the most promising new American poets. Awarded since 1919, past winners include Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, William Meredith, W.S. Merwin, John Ashbery, John Hollander, James Tate, and Carolyn Forché. In April 2010, Carl Phillips was named as the new judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, replacing Louise Glück. Phillips has chosen Eduardo C. Corral’s Slow Lightning as the 2011 competition winner. Both Phillips and Corral read from their works. Reception and book signing to follow.
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Date: September 17, 2012
Title: Charles Simic reading and conversation with author Tea Obreht at Strand Bookstore
Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Come to the Strand Bookstore for a reading by former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Simic, followed by a discussion with Simic and Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife. Both Slavs, these two will discuss their backgrounds, their influences and Simic’s work.
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Date: September 10, 2012
Title: Walt Whitman Award submission deadline
Location: US
Description: The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is published by Louisiana State University Press. The 2013 judge is John Ashbery.
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Date: November 15, 2012
Title: Walt Whitman Award submissions open
Location: US
Description: The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center to an American who has never before published a book of poetry. The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is published by Louisiana State University Press. The 2013 judge is John Ashbery.
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Date: September 15, 2012
Title: Influency Salon registration deadline
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: This unique lecture-reading course features a series of lectures and readings by eight contemporary Toronto guest poets in person. The Fall 2012 line-up is: Aisha Sasha John, Sandra Ridley, David McGimpsey, Angela Carr, Nicole Markotic, Helen Guri, George Elliott Clarke and Mark Goldstein.
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Date: September 7, 2012
Title: London Open Mic Poetry Night
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Description: Join the launch of a new monthly open-mic/poetry-reading for London-area poets. There is one featured poet, Andreas Gripp, followed by one hour of poetry open mic, with live music.
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Date: October 3, 2012
Title: Seamus Heaney ‘in conversation’ with Alasdair Macrae
Location: Stirling,Scotland, UK
Description: In association with the Royal Society of Literature, the University of Stirling is delighted to welcome to the campus, Nobel Laureate and University of Stirling Honorary Graduate Seamus Heaney. On this occasion, he will be ‘in conversation’ with Alasdair Macrae, literary critic and retired senior lecturer at the University.
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Date: September 14, 2012