Help Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) reach new literary milestones. Please mark your calendars for Pièces de Résistance, an extraordinary benefit series celebrating AQR’s 40th anniversary. Join the publication for 21 free, live online readings and conversations, featuring 58 exceptional new, emerging, and established poets and writers who have appeared in AQR. Pièces de Résistance runs from October 4, 2020 to May 2, 2021 hosted by the Anchorage Museum and moderated by author Heather Lende and AQR Co-Founder and Editor Ronald Spatz.
While all of the Pièces de Résistance events are free, consider making a tax-exempt donation to support AQR through our 501c3 affiliate, the Center for the Narrative & Lyric Arts.
This event features readings by Melinda Moustakis, Hananah Zaheer and Arna Bontemps Hemenway.
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The Kent and Sussex Poetry Society is pleased to announce that their annual Open Poetry Competition is now open for your entries. It is being judged this year by Rishi Dastidar, a well-known poet and editor whose most recent collection Saffron Jack is published by Nine Arches Press.
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The Poetry Foundation seeks to place essential poems before the largest possible audience, serve all poetry communities, and is committed to antiracist practices and policies. In July 2021, the Poetry Foundation will run a virtual institute for over 200 teachers, ranging from Kindergarten to the Community College level, who will learn new ways to teach poetry to their students. The institute is free to attend. This will be the 6th annual institute expanded to a broad, virtual educator audience.
The theme for the 2021 Institute is “Poetry in an Antiracist Classroom,” and the Foundation seeks presentation proposals from experienced educators, teaching artists, and visiting poets to present on aspects of teaching that give other teachers practical ideas on how to combine poetry teaching with antiracist practices.
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Ontario Culture Days Creatives in Residence is a new annual series of co-produced programs featuring the work of creators across the province. They are seeking project proposals from artists, creatives, collectives and organizations for the 2022 Creatives in Residence program.
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Spontaneous poetry writing is the act of connecting with someone — whether that’s a stranger, a loved one, a friend, or a client — to write a poem that captures a feeling, moment, image or essence of the conversation. The craft of spontaneous poetry writing encourages meaningful dialogue and exploratory conversations, and can prompt moving poetry that mirrors the experience using some of the speaker’s own words.
Join Kate Marshall Flaherty and poets from across Canada in learning about the craft of spontaneous poetry writing, and practice in real-time with fellow writers. This webinar is FREE for members of the League of Canadian Poets and The Writers’ Union of Canada.
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The Capilano Review‘s annual Robin Blaser Poetry Award began in 2011 to honour Robin Blaser’s role in the formation of West Coast poetics. Each year a Canadian poet is invited to draw on Blaser’s work to create a focus for the contest and to act as the contest judge. This year’s judge is Jordan Abel.
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On the twentieth anniversary of the inception of the ReLit Awards, founder Kenneth J. Harvey, passes the torch along to his daughter, Katherine Alexandra Harvey.
ReLit’s mandate is to reignite passion in literature. The awards – for poetry, novels and short fiction – aim to provide writers with the platform and acknowledgement to continue their literary pursuits. ReLit is also growing to include a literary journal and mentorship opportunities for aspiring teenage writers.
ReLit’s focus will remain on writer’s at the beginning of their careers and independent presses.
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Cecily Nicholson will introduce the following wonderful Talon authors: Fred Wah reading from Music at the Heart of Thinking; Colin Browne reading from Here; Junie Desil reading from eat salt | gaze at the ocean; Taryn Hubbard reading from Desire Path.
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The Canadian Association of Health Humanities and the League of Canadian Poets are partnering to deliver a series of monthly rounds focused on health, arts and humanities. These live sessions will feature both artists and professionals in the Health Humanities field for a multi-faceted conversation about topics related to healthcare, art, healing, and humanities.
This is a poetry-packed launch event, featuring the talented poets Ronna Bloom, Charlie C Petch, Ron Charach and Rajinderpal S Pal.
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