Category: International Events

Title: Words in the Woods Dunedin Literary Festival

Date: September 9, 2017

Location: Clearview, Ontario, Canada
Description: After a successful first event, the Dunedin Literary Festival returns this year on a new date: Saturday September 9th, 2017. Known as “Words in the Woods” due to its beautiful location, this year’s festival promises more of everything: more authors, more music, more literary discussions, more art & activities, more vendors, and more walks in the park.

Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roo Borson is among the featured writers this year.

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Title: A Poet’s Herbal: Useful Lore for the Poet Outdoors online course

Date: November 27, 2017

Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp of the power the senses hold over memory. This ten-week online course accompanies our one day workshop – Foraging & Poetry Workshop – and will further examine many of the ways a close engagement with the natural world can inform poetic practice, looking specifically at plants and fungi.

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Title: A Poet’s Herbal: Useful Lore for the Poet Outdoors online course

Date: November 13, 2017

Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp of the power the senses hold over memory. This ten-week online course accompanies our one day workshop – Foraging & Poetry Workshop – and will further examine many of the ways a close engagement with the natural world can inform poetic practice, looking specifically at plants and fungi.

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Title: A Poet’s Herbal: Useful Lore for the Poet Outdoors online course

Date: October 30, 2017

Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp of the power the senses hold over memory. This ten-week online course accompanies our one day workshop – Foraging & Poetry Workshop – and will further examine many of the ways a close engagement with the natural world can inform poetic practice, looking specifically at plants and fungi.

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Title: A Poet’s Herbal: Useful Lore for the Poet Outdoors online course

Date: October 16, 2017

Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp of the power the senses hold over memory. This ten-week online course accompanies our one day workshop – Foraging & Poetry Workshop – and will further examine many of the ways a close engagement with the natural world can inform poetic practice, looking specifically at plants and fungi.

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Title: A Poet’s Herbal: Useful Lore for the Poet Outdoors online course

Date: October 2, 2017

Description: The work of finding and identifying wild plants requires skills common to the work of writing poetry in many ways: just as the forager must use the memories evoked by smelling and touching particular plant to recall its name and purpose, so must the poet have a strong grasp of the power the senses hold over memory. This ten-week online course accompanies our one day workshop – Foraging & Poetry Workshop – and will further examine many of the ways a close engagement with the natural world can inform poetic practice, looking specifically at plants and fungi.

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Title: Forms and Features at Compound Yellow: Ephemeral Poetry

Date: August 21, 2017

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
Description: All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative workshop moderated by Poetry Foundation Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In August, Forms & Features will explore ephemeral poetry, verse written on a variety of physical objects.

The group will explore the connections and tensions between the physical and poetic in a wide range ephemeral poems. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing original poems on various materials, will conclude the session.

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Title: Forms and Features: Villanelle

Date: August 12, 2017

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
Description: All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop moderated led by Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In August, we focus on the villanelle, an intricate, rhymed French form rooted in Italian folk song.

The group will explore a wide variety of villanelles. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing a villanelle, will conclude the session.

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Title: Forms and Features: Villanelle

Date: August 22, 2017

Location: Chicago, Illinois, US
Description: All experience levels are welcome to a discussion and creative writing workshop moderated led by Library Coordinator Maggie Queeney. In August, we focus on the villanelle, an intricate, rhymed French form rooted in Italian folk song.

The group will explore a wide variety of villanelles. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing a villanelle, will conclude the session.

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Title: Vancouver Writers Fest 19th Annual Short Story and Poetry Contest submission deadline

Date: September 5, 2017

Description: Dream of seeing yourself onstage at the Vancouver Writers Fest one day?

Submit your best, unpublished writing to our Short Story and Poetry Contest! Past contest winners include Festival authors and many other talented writers from across Canada.

Entries will be judged by authors Théodora Armstrong, Chelene Knight and Sam Wiebe.

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