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Margaret Christakos read at AB series from What Stirs as well as a number of

For secondary school students in the National Capital Region… Win $100 in music or books. Enter the Think Ink Poetry Contest. To enter send 1 poem no longer than 45 lines and 250 words to think.ink[at]bywords.ca by December 31, 2009. Winner chooses prize of either an IPOD Shuffle or a $100 Chapters gift certificate. Runners […]

[via David Silverberg] The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word is returning on Nov. 10 to 14, touching down in lovely Victoria, B.C. We encourage you to come on out and support your local slam team, or just come and check out the daytime and evening festivities. There’s also a last-chance slam on Nov. 10, for […]

The Arts Calendar lists that John Barlow and I will be the AB Series on Dec 11th. Full info here. Oh, and not that haikuist John Barlow, this poet of Exile Editions.

Following Al Purdy’s death in 2001, The Al Purdy A-Frame Trust was formed in order to save the poet’s home in Ameliasburgh, Ontario from the wrecking ball by transforming it into a writer-in-residence retreat. This retreat will offer Canadian authors and critics a secluded, historical setting in which to develop the manuscripts that will shape […]