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Title: BBC Radio 3 Proms Poetry Competition submission deadline
Date: August 20, 2017
Location: United Kingdom
Description: The BBC Radio 3 Proms Poetry Competition challenges entrants to write a poem inspired by any piece of music in this year’s Proms season. There are two age categories: ages 12-18 and 19 plus. Poems will be judged by poets Ian McMillan and Jacob Polley.
Title: Szczesny, Williams and Priest at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: August 29, 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 Dan Szczesny, Scott Williams and Robert Priest.
Title: Lanthier, Cairns and Goodier at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: August 22, 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 Kateri Lanthier, Philip Cairns and Sharon Goodier.
Title: Pirie, Carlise and Epp at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: August 15, 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 Pearl Pirie, Chuck Carlise and Darrell Epp.
Title: Resonance Reading Series
Date: August 1, 2017
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: Resonance is a monthly reading series of original creative writing and other text based collaborations. It’s based at Café Résonance, Montreal. This month’s readings are by Stevie Howell, Tessa Liem, Cam Terwilliger, Katharine Beeman and Darryl Whetter.
Title: Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LIV
Date: August 29, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it. Please spread the word through social media and other means. Let our event become as diverse as we are.
Host of the evening is Bänoo Zan, and the featured poets are Puneet Dutt and Justin Lauzon.
Title: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize submission deadline
Date: August 31, 2017
Location: United States
Description: Designed to honor the legacy of one of the most original and accomplished poets to emerge in recent years — and to reward outstanding poets for years to come — the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize awards $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions to the author of a debut collection of poems. This year’s judge is Henri Cole.
Title: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award submission deadline
Date: July 31, 2017
Description: The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is an opportunity for any young poet aged 11-17 to accelerate their writing career. Since it was founded in 1998 the Award has kick-started the career of some of today’s most exciting new voices, such as Helen Mort, a successful poet whose first collection was recently published by Chatto & Windus. With entries from over 7,600 young people this year across from the UK and worldwide, it is the largest competition of its kind and its importance is widely attested.
This year’s judges are Sinéad Morrissey and Kayo Chingonyi.
Title: The Shaken and the Stirred
Start Date: August 17, 2017
End Date: August 19, 2017
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Exploring acts of opposition and disobedience – the essential needs of poetry in a cracked and porous world – this event brings together five Canadian poets, including Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate. A key part of the country’s multicultural mosaic, these poems of beauty and knowledge honour Canada’s 150th anniversary.
Title: The Shaken and the Stirred
Start Date: August 10, 2017
End Date: August 11, 2017
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Exploring acts of opposition and disobedience – the essential needs of poetry in a cracked and porous world – this event brings together five Canadian poets, including Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate. A key part of the country’s multicultural mosaic, these poems of beauty and knowledge honour Canada’s 150th anniversary.