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Title: #todayspoem
Date: May 9, 2017
Description: In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough to spur a moment of delight or recognition or, handily favorited in Twitter, is a lovely bookmark for future poetry explorations.
Title: The Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand
Date: April 25, 2017
Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) is thrilled to host The Poetics of Justice: A Conversation Between Claudia Rankine and Dionne Brand, moderated by BCRW Associate Director Tami Navarro, on the power and necessity of poetry in resisting the contemporary manifestations of racism, anti-blackness, and white supremacy.
This event is a response to the current political moment in the United States, and has its roots in a BCRW literary series initiated in 2014, Caribbean Feminisms on the Page. These earlier conversations featured authors thinking through their engagements with the Caribbean and its diaspora and their experiences as women writing in and about the region.
Title: Drukker, Richter and Charach at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: April 25, 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 Kelly Norah Drukker, Lisa Richter and Ron Charach.
Title: Leonard Cohen Tribute at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: April 18, 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 is a tribute to Leonard Cohen, with readings by Adebe DeRango-Adem, Carolyn Smart, Clara Blackwood, Jacqueline Valencia, George Elliot Clarke, Moez Surani, Richard Glen Lett, Robin Richardson, Stanley Fefferman and Honey Novik.
Title: Terpstra, Berg and Struthers at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: April 11, 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 John Terpstra, Sharon Berg and Betsy Struthers.
Title: Toronto Lit Up: National Poetry Month Launch
Date: April 6, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Join the League of Canadian Poets and the IFOA in launching National Poetry Month, and the new works of five wonderful Toronto poets.
Title: Pivot Readings with Besner, Cayley, Heighton and Showler
Date: May 17, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they’re what’s happening in literature, right now. This evening’s readings at The Steady Café on Bloor West in Toronto are by Linda Besner, Kate Cayley, Steven Heighton and Suzannah Showler.
Title: Pivot Readings with Holbrook, Sinclair, Thran and Wang
Date: May 3, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they’re what’s happening in literature, right now. This evening’s readings at The Steady Café on Bloor West in Toronto are by Susan Holbrook, Sue Sinclair, Nick Thran and Phoebe Wang.
Title: Pivot Readings with Connolly, Neilson, Robinsong and Rosenblum
Date: April 19, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they’re what’s happening in literature, right now. This evening’s readings at The Steady Café on Bloor West in Toronto are by Kevin Connolly, Shane Neilson, Erin Robinsong and Rebecca Rosenblum.
Title: Pivot Readings with Clare, John, Lanthier and LoveGrove
Date: April 5, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they’re what’s happening in literature, right now. This evening’s readings at The Steady Café on Bloor West in Toronto are by Kerry Clare, Aisha Sasha John, Kateri Lanthier and Jennifer LoveGrove.