Title: Edmonton Poetry Festival
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Description: The Edmonton Poetry Festival kicked off in 2006, with the help of Edmonton’s then-poet-laureate Alice Major and an organizing committee representing a wide range of poetry groups in the city. With annual increases in funding and participation, the festival welcomed visits from many poets laureate and added school programs and other events such as Concrete Poetry, Blinks, Stand-up Poetry on street corners and more.
Start Date: April 22, 2012
End Date: April 29, 2012
Description: National Poetry Month is a month-long celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 and observed since 1999 in Canada. As the Academy of American Poets states, National Poetry Month is meant to widen the attention of individuals and the media to the art of poetry, to living poets, to the nation’s complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern. National Poetry Month events and initiatives increase the visibility and availability of poetry in popular culture while acknowledging and celebrating poetry’s ability to sustain itself in the many places where it is practiced and appreciated.
