This second evening of the Distance as a Keeping Series will set two very different writers alongside each other. R. Kolewe is a Toronto-based poet whose mammoth long poem The Absence of Zero derives its structure from quantum processes such as the Riemann curvature tensor in four dimensions, radioactive decay algorithms, TS Eliot, Dürer, exploring spacetime and memory. Dianne Chisholm, whose feminist […]

Women's Work Festival Presents the Playwrights Guild of Canada Playconnect reading with Shannon Bramer, who will be reading from Trapsongs, along with Prajwala Dixit, Nicole Leona Smith, and Natalie Meisner. Wednesday March 9, 2022 3:00pm-4:30pm Free online event. View here.

Join Aimee Wall, along with Coast Lines host Angela Antle (BA'91) and political science professor Dr. Amanda Bittner as they discuss Wall's remarkable debut novel, We, Jane. Wednesday, March 09, 2022 7:30 pm  Newfoundland time | 9 pm EST Free. Online. Register here.  

Shannon Webb-Campbell reads from her new poetry book Lunar Tides with Mi'kmaq-Newfoundland poet Douglas Walbourne-Gough for Centre des arts de Standstead in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Hosted by Shelley Pomerance. March 15, 2022 7 -8 pm EST Free event. Online. Register here. Visit the FB event page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1094813231296992

Shannon Webb-Campbell will read from her forthcoming book Lunar Tides with Rebecca Thomas, author of I'm Finding My Talk, Swift Fox All Along, and I Place You Into The Fire at the University of New Brunswick virtual Reading Series. March 16, 2022, 7pm Atlantic | 7:30 pm NL | 6pm EST. Free. Online. Register here.

Shani Mootoo reads from Cane | Fire alongside Natalie Wee. Hosted by Faith Paré. Friday, March 25, 2022 7 pm - 8 pm EDT Online. Free. Register here. Visit the FB event page for more information.      

Please join Poetry Daily editorial board member Brian Tearefor the first of three conversations about ecopoetry with writers from Canada, Mexico, and the US: Chantal Neveu, author of This Radiant Life, Isabel Zapata, fahima ife, and Rita Wong. Thursday, March 31, 2022 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT Free. Online. Register here.  

Winter Dreams of Spring: Mon. April 4, 7:30-9:00 pm. Join for the last Mount Saint Vincent University (formerly) MacDonald Room Reading in the 12-year series brings together settler and Indigenous, poets and listeners, all of us to consecrate this luminous room’s rightful, restorative transition to a wholly Indigenous campus space. Readings by Halifax poet laureate […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Transcendent Poetry, featuring Shani Mootoo, author of Cane | Fire, Tolu Oloruntoba, and Jason Purcell - three poets whose collections are just in time for National Poetry Month! Join us for a fascinating evening in conversation with writers at the cutting edge of poetry in Canada. They are joined in conversation […]

Join us for a double book launch to celebrate new releases from Shani Mootoo (Cane | Fire) and Shannon Webb-Campbell (Lunar Tides). Featuring readings and an interview moderated by special guest Linda Morra, who is the SFU Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar and host of the podcast Getting Lit with Linda. Online event. Free to attend. […]