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Celebrating the Poets of Forms & Features

Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 7:00 PM EST   Participants from the Forms & Features poetry workshops share new work. About this event Join us for a reading and celebration of the diverse voices, rich experiences, and powerful words of poets from around the country, and the world. Poets working in the online poetry workshop and

Speak the Word: online open mic night

  An online poetry and spoken word open mic night for people of all levels of experience About this event ON THE 4TH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH, SPEAK THE WORD RUNS AN OPEN MIC NIGHT 5-minute slots available. Come to read and come to listen. Come and enjoy some wordplay with a friendly, inclusive and

WIW Black History Month Poetry Show!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022 AT 8 PM EST   Join us for our 2nd Annual Black History Month Poetry Show! We are featuring 22 of some of the most crafted poets in the world today! AllnIllusion, Baba Ngoma Hill, Chanson Byrd, Chaz Vangogh World, Dark Man Blues, Dee Allen, Diane Ward, Ericka Floyd, Fresh Linen,

Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LXXXIV

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2022 AT 7 PM – 10 PM Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) LXXXIV Toronto’s most diverse & brave poetry reading + open mic series Featured poets: Leslie Roach & Sam Cheuk Host: Bänoo Zan Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Place: Online (Zoom) Registration is required via Eventbrite Open Mic Sign-up: 6:45 EST Show

Poetry and Social Justice Workshop with KB

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022 AT 2 PM – 4 PM EST This workshop will explain and celebrate the relationship between social justice movements and poetry. In this workshop, you will explore the question of how to use art, specifically poetry, as a tool toward justice. Led by KB, this workshops will be a generative and

Erotic Poetry Live Transmission – Kink Edition

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2022 AT 5 AM EST Join The Poetic Seductress for a sensual evening of artful seduction and spoken Erotica. Be guided into pleasure without shame or judgment. Enter an intimate space of embodied eros. Bring your dark fantasies and an open heart, to be captivated by The Poetic Seductress. – 90 minutes

COMMONground: A Collaboration with Poetry Ireland

Sat, February 5, 2022 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Poetry Foundation and Poetry Ireland present Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Teri Ellen Cross Davis in conversation. About this event Poetry Foundation and Poetry Ireland present the first in a series of transatlantic events, a reading and conversation with acclaimed Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa and

Mama’s Ignite Fireside Circle – The Fire in Our Words

  Spark your creativity in community with Mamas Ignite Collective. A night of music, poetry, conversation, writing and more. About this event What about your creativity? Daily we come up with creative ways to care for our families, our children and our work. Where is the space and time for BIPOC mamas to get creative

Poetry Lit! Online Reading Series

2 PM – 3:30 PM EST Poetry from all over the world has never been closer to your lazy chair! Poetry Lit! is a monthly online reading series for international poets… and their fans. Each month Poetry Lit! hosts a Zoom event where folks share in poetry. Each month we invited 2 guest poets to

Author Reading Series: Aisha Sasha John + Alexei Perry Cox

Oxygen Art Centre presents a reading with poets Aisha Sasha John and Alexei Perry Cox, plus student writers from Selkirk College About this event Join Oxygen Art Centre at 7pm (PST) on Wednesday January 26th for readings with poets Alexei Perry Cox and Aisha Sasha John. The evening will open with readings from students in