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Title: Parkland Poets Reading Series
Date: January 25, 2018
Location: Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
Description: At each meeting, Parkland Poets will feature three readers who have signed up in advance to deliver a 10-minute reading. Following the featured readers, there will be an open mic session, where audience members can sign up (on the night itself) to deliver a brief 2-minute reading.
Title: Verve Poetry Festival
Start Date: February 15, 2018
End Date: February 18, 2018
Location: Birmingham, UK
Description: Verve is a four day festival of world class poetry and spoken word, with readings, performances, workshops, children’s events and more in the heart of Birmingham city centre.
Title: Brenda Shaughnessy reading
Date: January 11, 2018
Location: Johnson, Vermont, US
Description: Brenda Shaughnessy reads at the Vermont Studio Center in an event sponsored by the Rona Jaffe Foundation.
Title: A Celebration of Derek Walcott
Date: January 18, 2018
Location: New York, New York, US
Description: “What better way is there to memorialize a writer than to read what he has written and remember who he was in all those worlds of words he was brave and confident enough to imagine in the first place?” These words from Hilton Als’s remembrance of Derek Walcott, who died earlier this year, inspire this tribute to the poet, hailed “for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision” when awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992.
Taking part in the tribute are Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Robert Antoni, Carolyn Forché, Lorna Goodison, Jamaica Kincaid, Karl Kirchwey, Yusef Komunyakaa, Glyn Maxwell and Caryl Phillips.
Title: White Noise poetry workshop
Date: January 20, 2018
Location: London, England
Description: A day of poetry inspired by randomness and uncertainty. Listening to half-tuned radios, following strangers, translating dog barks, etc. Working backwards from nonsense (nb. results could still be very stupid). We will try out some tested approaches (borrowed from Conceptual Writing, Chaos Magick, Dada) as well as devising some of our own.
Title: Forms and Features: Syntax
Date: January 13, 2018
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 January, we explore syntax, the structure poet Ellen Bryant Voigt argues is “the essential drama to the poem’s composition.”
The group will explore a wide variety of syntactic structures and styles. A creative workshop, where participants will be guided through composing an original poem, will conclude the session.
Title: Fahner, Hartsfield and Akinlolu at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: February 6, 2018
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 Kim Fahner, Carla Hartsfield and Segun Akinlolu.
Title: Tysdals group, Coluccio and Tolmie at the Art Bar Poetry Series
Date: January 30, 2018
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 Tysdals group, Pino Coluccio and Sarah Tolmie.
Title: Liz Howard Poetry Reading at Drawn and Quarterly
Date: January 19, 2018
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: On January 19, 2018 at 7 pm, you are invited to join 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Liz Howard for a reading and conversation with Montréal writer and professor Gail Scott at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
Learn more here and here.
Title: Bramer, Graham and Hiemstra at knife | fork | book
Date: January 19, 2018
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: All knife | fork | book readings events are generally Friday nights. Doors 6:30 | Poetry 7-ish. unless noted otherwise. Check the knife | fork | book web site or twitter feed for any updates.
This event features readings by Shannon Bramer, Catherine Graham and Jessica Hiemstra.