Category: International Events

Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: November 12, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: November 19, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: November 26, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: December 3, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: December 10, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Reading and Writing Mythopoetics: A Poetry Workshop

Date: September 17, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 17th to December 10th), participants in person and online will read and write through a tryptich of books by women writers that enact myth in their poetics: Theresa Hak Cha, Alice Notley, and Joanne Kyger.

Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the form of starting points and prompts drawn from the poems as well as those of instructor Hoa Nguyen’s own design. Weekly written materials include introductory and contextualizing commentary, supplemental materials, and inventive writing prompts.

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Title: Hello / Goodbye to University of Calgary Writers-in-Residence Denise Chong and Shane Book

Date: September 8, 2017

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Description: Denise Chong, the 2017-2018 Writer-in-Residence for the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program, will give a public reading at the Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre on September 8th. Departing 2016-2017 Writer-in-Residence Shane Book will also speak at the event.

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Title: Larew, McCaslin and Denham at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: October 3, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Art Bar is recognized as Canada’s longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to enjoy one of the oldest arts.

This week’s offering features Hiram Larew, Susan McCaslin and Joe Denham.

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Title: Johnstone, McCaslin and Smith at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: September 26, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Art Bar is recognized as Canada’s longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to enjoy one of the oldest arts.

This week’s offering features Jim Johnstone, Susan McCaslin and Josh Smith.

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Title: du Plessis, Pelman and Armstrong at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: September 19, 2017

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Art Bar is recognized as Canada’s longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to enjoy one of the oldest arts.

This week’s offering features Klara du Plessis, Barbara Pelman and Duncan Armstrong.

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