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Slam Finals
UPDATE APRIL 20, 2017: The slam finals are SOLD OUT. NO TICKETS will be available at the door. Prepare yourself for yet another night filled with high energy and poetic wizardry. This slam marks ...
Wine and Wild Women Wordsmiths
Our popular event, Wine and Wild Women Wordsmiths is back! And this year the muse is strong! Like poetry, there is a sea of wine styles and types to choose from. Just like Women, ...
Leaving Home, A Lecture from Jane Munro
Every year the Poetry Festival and the CAA join forces to bring you one of the country’s leading poets. This year we are overjoyed to welcome Jane Munro – 2015 Griffin Award winner – ...
Lunch with the Griffins
Get up close and personal with Griffin winners Liz Howard (2016) and Jane Munro (2015) at this VIP lunch, catered by the Hyatt Hotel. Tim Bowling, 2015 Griffin judge also shares his experiences jurying ...
Poetry Central 4
Poetry Central is your chance for a lunch-time poetry meet-up in the downtown! Watch some of Edmonton’s emerging and established, page and stage poets, have a short-order poem written for you on the spot, ...
Late Night Literati
We aren’t all early risers. Some of us like our literature sprinkled with a dash of the aurora borealis. Men and Women of letters – Night Owls – join us for a late-night showcase ...
Vintage Poetry
This eleventh annual evening of well-aged poets features local poets and special guest reader Bert Almon. Bert is the author of eleven books and taught creative writing at the U of A for 40 ...
French Twist: Poésis De Toutes Horizons
En cette 6e édition, le French Twist est aujourd’hui un événement francophone incontournable de l’Edmonton Poetry Festival. Animée par Pierrette Requier, Poète officielle de la ville d’Edmonton et présentée par Radio-Canada, cette soirée vous ...
Literary Cocktails
Please join the staff of the University of Alberta Press for readings and refreshments as we launch our newest literary titles: Rising Abruptly, Gisèle Villeneuve – Seven enigmatic and compelling stories about the myth and mystery ...
Local Books 2 at Centre Stage
Edmonton’s own poetry community takes Centre Stage with work of local, national and international scope. Stop by the CBC’s Centre Stage space for a lunch-time sampling of the newest publications by our diverse local poets ...
Poetry Central 3
Poetry Central is your chance for a lunch-time poetry meet-up in the downtown! Watch some of Edmonton’s emerging and established, page and stage poets, have a short-order poem written for you on the spot, ...
Eskonahkwahk
Join us for Eskonahkwahk (“horizon” in Cree) – a celebration of the work of First Nations writers. As we look to the future, four of Canada’s leading indigenous poets gather to share their voices ...
Event Horizon
Event horizon – it’s the far edge of spacetime, where gravity goes weird and particles sizzle. We’re going to the far edges of poetry with four sizzling, out-there poets: Shane Book – his Congotronic, ...
Expanding Horizons
What is the future of innovative poetry, and what role will our poetic practices play in shaping the future of culture and politics? In this panel discussion, hosted by Christine Stewart, four poets describe ...
Poetry Central 2
Poetry Central is your chance for a lunch-time poetry meet-up in the downtown! Watch some of Edmonton’s emerging and established, page and stage poets, have a short-order poem written for you on the spot, ...
Writing Revolution in Place
We are the Writing Revolution in Place Creative Research Collective! Over the past six years we have worked around the city: Boyle Community Services, The Learning Centre at Abbotsfield, HIV Edmonton, Stanley Milner Library, University ...
Teen Slam
Hey teen poets! Looking to try your hand at slamming? This individual poetry competition is an opportunity exclusively for young spoken word artists. All competitors and judges will be 21 or under. Just remember ...
Quicksilver Blinks
What comes along every 25 years and goes like lightning? It’s the Quicksilver Blinks and the thermometer will be rising at—of course—the Mercury Room. It’s poetry that won’t stand still! It’s a shimmy and ...
On The Horizon
Hear from emerging poets who are fresh and skilled in their craft, as they share their work and discuss the role poetry plays in crossing that next horizon in their writing. Featured contributors to ...
Local Books 1 at Centre Stage
Edmonton’s own poetry community takes Centre Stage with work of local, national and international scope. Stop by the CBC’s Centre Stage space for a lunch-time sampling of the newest publications by our diverse local poets ...
Life is poetry; poetry is life
Poets were treated like gods in 19th & 20th Century Russia. The story of three such poets – Nikolai Gumilyov, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam – will be presented by weaving together poems and ...
The Polyglot: Multilingual Horizons
The Polyglot (www.thepolyglotmagazine.com) is a new Canadian biannual magazine devoted to publishing multilingual poetry and art. Our inaugural issue themed Crosswalks (Spring 2017) expands the horizons of what languages, poetry, and art can do. At ...
Reading History: A Celebration of Poetry at Rutherford House
As founder of the University of Alberta, Alexander Cameron Rutherford evinced a great appreciation of literature, including poetry. In fact, Eric Broadus, the University of Alberta’s first English Professor (in 1908), dedicated his 1923 ...
We Come To You From Everywhere
NOTE NEW EVENT TIME: Event start time is now 1:00pm. A Poetry reading with Jade O’Riley & The Poets Within. Jade O’Riley, creator of City Arts Poet Within classes and Edmonton Poets House, presents ...