Category: International Events

Title: NaHaiWriMo – National Haiku Writing Month

Start Date: February 1, 2018
End Date: February 28, 2018

Description: Write one haiku a day for the month of February! Why February? Because it’s the shortest month – for the world’s shortest genre of poetry. Join poets around the world who pledge to write at least one haiku a day for National Haiku Writing Month during the year’s shortest month. Or write haiku every day of every month, all year round, on the NaHaiWriMo site on Facebook, with daily writing prompts to inspire you.

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Title: National Haiku Contest submission deadline

Date: January 15, 2018

Location: Canada
Description: This award is a program created by the League of Canadian Poets’ National Council to promote the art of Haiku, and to celebrate Haiku Month in February! The winner of the Haiku contest will receive 10 t-shirts printed with the winning poem, and will have their work featured on the League’s website and social media. The winning poem will also be included in the 2018 Poem in Your Pocket Day booklet, published internationally each April.

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Title: the shadows are only beginning to reveal themselves – photography and text by Leslie Greentree

Start Date: January 5, 2018
End Date: February 10, 2018

Location: Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Description: Writer Leslie Greentree debuts her first art show, triptychs of photos and text poking around themes of death and loss from oblique angles.

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Title: Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LVIX

Date: January 30, 2018

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 Canisia Lubrin and David C. Brydges.

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Title: Gould, Barwell and Bozabalian at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: January 23, 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 Cynthia Gould, Tom Barwell and Lara Bozabalian.

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Title: Clink, Wood and Wilder at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: January 16, 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 David Clink, Heather Wood and Georgia Wilder.

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Title: Sutherland, Shenfeld and Coluccio at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Date: January 9, 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 Fraser Sutherland, Karen Shenfeld and Pino Coluccio.

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Title: Freedom to Read Week

Start Date: February 25, 2018
End Date: March 3, 2018

Location: Canada
Description: Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Freedom to Read Week is organized by the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.

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Title: Poetry Is Dead – Coven issue submission deadline

Date: January 15, 2018

Description: We’re calling the four corners. We’re calling magic makers of all kinds. We’re calling for spells for survival, tinctures of remedy, gossip, renewal rituals, new moon intentions, full moon feels, astrology memes. We want writing that plays between the worlds, that conjures new worlds, that heals the world we live in. We’re warding off “witch hunts” of all kinds and throwing salt around like confetti. Who are we as witches? Where does the magic come from? Who are our teachers? What have we taken and how do we give back to the circle? We’re due for an offering to the ancestors. Guest edited by Adèle Barclay and Leah Horlick.

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Date: January 15, 2018

Title: Pivot Readings with Martinello, Hardcastle, Dolman and Ruthnum

Date: December 14, 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 Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room in Toronto are by Anita Dolman, Naben Ruthnum, Kevin Hardcastle and Domenica Martinello.

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