Category: International Events

Title: Cutting Across Linearity: Poetics Workshop

Date: March 25, 2018

Location: Toronto / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.

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: Cutting Across Linearity: Poetics Workshop

Date: April 1, 2018

Location: Toronto / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.

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: Cutting Across Linearity: Poetics Workshop

Date: April 8, 2018

Location: Toronto / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.

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: Cutting Across Linearity: Poetics Workshop

Date: April 15, 2018

Location: Toronto / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs Sundays from January 21 to April 15, except February 18 and 25), participants in person and online will read and write through alternating works: Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson’s Selected edited by Brenda Hillman. These books of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.

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: Versefest

Start Date: March 20, 2018
End Date: March 25, 2018

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: VERSe Ottawa is a fully-incorporated collective of Ottawa organizations who curate and produce reading and performance series. One of the principal strengths of VERSe is the inclusion of written- and spoken word poetry groups, as well as other leaders in the poetry community. In coming together, the members of VERSe Ottawa have created an organization that, we believe, is unique in Canada and, perhaps, North America. The group and its activities are all the more durable since, as a team, VERSe’s activities will not be dependent on any one group or executive body. VERSe membership changes from year to year as series come and go.

Six days, sixty poets, one festival. Celebrating written poetry and spoken word in English and French, VF ’18 is sure to bring us once again some of the most exciting poets on the planet.

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Title: Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poesie – La grande finale

Start Date: April 17, 2018
End Date: April 20, 2018

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Les voix de la poésie/Poetry In Voice sont un organisme de bienfaisance qui encourage les élèves de partout au Canada à vivre l’aventure de la poésie par le biais de la lecture, de l’écriture et de la récitation.

Les 24 élèves qui obtiennent les meilleurs scores à la demi-finale sur Internet, ainsi que leurs enseignants, gagnent une place à la grande finale. Cela inclut les frais de déplacement et l’hébergement.

Au cœur de l’événement se trouve le concours : des poètes, des acteurs, actrices et autres figures du monde culturel jugent les récitations des élèves et nomment les gagnants et gagnantes de chaque section du concours : française, anglaise et bilingue. Près de 25?000 $ en prix leur sont distribués.

La grande finale est aussi l’occasion d’activités culturelles. Jusqu’à ce jour, nous avons organisé une rencontre avec Margaret Atwood, des visites poétiques de musées, des ateliers d’écriture pour les jeunes et des ateliers de partage d’exercices pratiques pour les enseignants et enseignantes.

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Title: Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poesie National Finals

Start Date: April 17, 2018
End Date: April 20, 2018

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a charitable organization that encourages Canadian students to fall in love with poetry through reading, writing, and recitation. 

The 24 top-scoring students from the Online Semifinals and their teachers win a spot at the National Finals, plus travel and accommodation.

The highlight of the event is our contest, in which Canadian poets, actors, and other cultural figures judge students’ recitations, award nearly $25,000 in prizes, and name a National Champion in each of our three language streams: English, French, and Bilingual.

The event also includes cultural activities. So far, we’ve hosted a private Q&A with Margaret Atwood, poetry-themed gallery tours, a screening of Al Purdy Was Here followed by a Q&A with director Brian Johnson, the Amazing Recitation Race, writing workshops for students, and best-practice workshops for teachers.

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Title: Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie Online Semifinals results notification

Date: March 21, 2018

Location: Canada
Description: Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a national poetry recitation contest for high school students in Canada. Registration is free and open to all secondary schools across Canada, as well as CEGEPs in Quebec. Poetry In Voice is a non-profit organization founded by Scott Griffin, Chairman and founder of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry.

The Poetry In Voice semifinals are held online to allow schools from all over Canada equal access to the competition. Results of the online competition will be sent out via email on this date.

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Title: Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie Online Semifinals submission deadline

Date: March 8, 2018

Location: Canada
Description: Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is a national poetry recitation contest for high-school students in Canada founded by Scott Griffin and The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. The Griffin Trust raises awareness of the crucial role poetry plays in our cultural life, a mission shared by Poetry In Voice.

The Poetry In Voice semifinals are held online to allow schools from all over Canada equal access to the competition.

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Title: The Poetry Extension

Date: February 22, 2018

Description: The Poetry Extension brings together poets from around the world, one face-melting gig at a time.

This edition of The Poetry Extension celebrates Black History Month and welcomes the following poets: Ifra Hussein, Jericho Brown, Lorna Goodison, Paulina O’ Kieffe and Rabbit Richards, along with host Natalya Anderson.

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