April 2020
Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poesie 2020 Online Senior National Finals
Tune in to www.poetryinvoice.com and watch as the top 9 student reciters from across Canada lift poetry off the page and compete for $25,000 in prizes. Meet the Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poesie judges, poets Joséphine Bacon, Gwen Benaway, Anne-Marie Desmeules, Moe Clark, Pierre Nepveu, and Greg Santos, and find out who they’ve chosen as this year’s champions. Our host, former CBC Radio personality Johanne Blais, will lead the celebration and honour all 24 of our…
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The Polyglot: Monthly Multilingual Art Lab
The Polyglot and Laberinto Press are teaming up to offer a monthly Multilingual Art Lab! This is a space where writers, artists, and translators share their experiments with one another. Similar to a tertulia or salon, we will gather to discuss, learn, and enjoy each other’s company. The lab was born out of overwhelming community response to The Polyglot’s past events, as well as writing workshops in March 2019 and February 2021. The Multilingual Art Lab includes four Zoom gatherings…
Find out more »League of Canadian Poets – New Member Reading
Join us on Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 5pm PST/8pm EST for the first of our 2022 New Member Readings! Featuring New LCP members from British Columbia who have joined the League from 2020 – Present, including Lesley-Anne Evans, Geoff Inverarity, Heather Haley, Rayya Liebich, Frankie McGee, Bronwen Tate, Marie Metaphor Specht and Johnny D. Trinh. Connect with the poetry community, get inspired, and have fun! Learn more about the New Member Reading Series: poets.ca/member-readings/
Find out more »CLC Brown Bag Lunch with Bertrand Bickersteth & Karina Vernon
We are excited to announce that on Friday, February 18, the CLC will host poet, playwright, and essayist Bertrand Bickersteth in conversation with literary scholar Karina Vernon. Vernon’s The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology features poetry by Bickersteth, for whom Alberta is at once a “central source of inspiration” and an “unwilling muse.” Introduced by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, they will join us from 2 to 3 p.m. MST via Zoom. Karina Vernon is Associate Professor of English at the University…
Find out more »Poems about Place: Writing Workshop with Vancouver’s Poet Laureate
The process of writing about place is an important way for us to explore in ourselves and to communicate with others our connections to a place. How can we begin to write evocative and meaningful poems about the historically, culturally or ecologically significant places in our city, those places that may represent generations of family and community stories? Or places that we have more modest connections to but nonetheless have come to mean something important to us. Join Vancouver's poet…
Find out more »Tartan Turban Secret Readings #33
You are invited to the 33rd session of The Tartan Turban Secret Readings curated by Dr Amatoritsero Ede, featuring George Elliott Clarke, Lillian Allen, Clifton Joseph, Bertrand Bickersteth and H Nigel Thomas. Curator Dr. Amatoritsero Ede is an internationally award-winning poet born in Nigeria. He has three poetry collections, A Writer’s Pains & Caribbean Blues (1998), Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (2009) and recently, Teardrops on the Weser (2021). His debut won the prestigious All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature in 1998, the second was nominated for…
Find out more »The New Embassy: Hope and the Human Spirit (Curated by Canisia Lubrin)
Inspired by Toronto’s renowned, historic Bohemian Embassy, meet a new generation of artists inspiring Canada’s ever-evolving literary scene at The New Embassy: a digital mini-series of spoken word, poetry, prose, theatrical readings, music and dance. Curated by author Canisia Lubrin, The New Embassy’s opening event features a lively and provocative programme of music, theatre and poetry. Experience the rhythms of Joy Lapps, leader of the Afro and Latin-Caribbean Jazz ensemble The Joy Lapps Project; a gripping monologue about the Springhill mining disaster…
Find out more »March 2022
Horizons Writers Circle Public Reading
You are invited to the Horizons Writers Circle public reading, presenting writers Gian Marco Visconti, Meghan Eacker, Diana Gaviria, Poushali Mitra, and Candice Joy Oliva. We want to thank Horizons Writers Circle Mentors Uche Umezurike, Rayanne Haynes, Jumoke Verissimo, Jana Pruden, and Adriana Onita for sharing their talent with our cohort. Special thanks go to Ellen Kartz, and the Edmonton Arts Council for their support, as well as our private donors.
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