For Dissections: Ed Atkins, DHC/ART Education will showcase contemporary poetry. Authors Oana Avasilichioaei, Renée Gagnon and Chantal Neveu present a poetry reading that will resonate with DHC/ART’s current exhibition, Ed Atkins: Modern Piano Music. The texts, chosen or written for the occasion, echo Atkins’s treatment of language (one of his primary materials) as well as certain recurring themes in […]

Resonance Reading Series presents Christine McNair, author of Charm, and Jacob Wren, author of Rich and Poor. Other readers include Stephanie Bolster, Kelly Norah Drukker and Dean Garlick.

Andrew McEwan (If Pressed), Aaron Tucker (Irresponsible Mediums) and Julia Polyck-O'Neill kick off the new season of Thursday readings at Knife Fork Books in Kensington Market. Please note: This will be the last event for Knife Fork Book at Rick's Cafe, as it begins to look for a new home.Please do help out Kirby by […]

Never the Same International Symposium presents 'What Are the Materials? (What is Materiality, anyways?)', a workshop Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. Registration required.

Never the Same International Symposium presents 'Aural Cosmologies', a reading with Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. Aural Cosmologies Evening social featuring poetry readings and performances by Lisa Robertson, Jeanne Randolph, derek beaulieu, Sleepy Panther, and others. Hosted by Su Strang, Director of The New Gallery Doors and bar open at 8:30 PM; […]

Never the Same: what (else) can art writing do? International Symposium presents 'Performing and Materialising Art Writing', a panel with Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. Also with Christof Migone, Mark Clintberg Moderated by Amy FungLisa Robertson. Registration required.

flywheel Reading Series presents Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. Also with Mikka Jakobsen, Rod Moody-Corbett. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MONTH'S FLYWHEEL READING IS TUESDAY NOT THURSDAY

SFU English Dept and Bennett Library present a reading with Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. In the Special Collections & Rare Books, Room 7100 on the 7th floor of the W.A.C. Bennett Library (SFU Burnaby). This event is free to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Tony Power at […]

IFOA presents 'Poetic New Worlds', with Jennifer LoveGrove (Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes) and David B. Goldstein (Lost Originals). Spend an afternoon with poetry and discover new worlds. Enjoy readings by Roo Borson, Mireia Calafell, Amanda Earl, David Goldstein, Jennifer LoveGrove, John Nyman, Nicholas Power, Stuart Ross and Dane Swan. This event will feature 2016 […]

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC presents "The Baudelaire Fractal",  a reading with Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. For further information please contact: Jana Tyner at jana.tyner@ubc.ca, tel: (604) 822-1389, or fax: (604) 822-6689

TCR launches Issue 3.32, 'Polymorphous Translation' co-edited by Catriona Strang and Ted Byrne, and featuring readings and performances by Lisa Robertson, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Michael Barnholden, Olga Garcia and Danielle LaFrance, Rachelle Sawatsky, Matea Kulic, Leah Sharzer, plus a short film by Tristin Greyeyes. Accessibility: Entrance to the event space is street level, through a 4-metre-wide entry into […]

The Capilano Review presents "Wide Rime", a lecture with Lisa Robertson, author of Nilling and The Men. "I think the voice is the great Baroque pearl of this catastrophe that is the political human dump." TCR and SFU Graduate Liberal studies co-sponsors a talk by Lisa Robertson Wide Rime: Voice, Value, Resistance In a consideration […]

Word Vancouver presents a Reading of To Love the Coming End by Leanne Dunic, at the Sunrise Suite (South Plaza). (Leanne Dunic: Adopted by the Writers Guild of Canada)

Word Vancouver presents "Mixed Voices Raised", featuring Leanne Dunic, author of To Love the Coming End. Presented at Perspective Point (Peter Kaye Room). More and more, we live in a society of hybridized, mixed, or blended identities. What is it like to write and read from within or beyond the hyphen or transnational identities? What […]

Word on the Street Toronto presents This Time it's Personal, with Shannon Bramer, author of Precious Energy, in the Vibrant Voices of Ontario tent.  Also with Michael Dennis. Hosted by Susan G. Cole. Whether insinuating or blunt in its message, poetry can be a wonderfully personal art. Join Michael Dennis and Shannon Bramer as they […]

Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents Campus Program with Jennifer Still, author of Comma. Jennifer Still shares her latest poetry collection, Comma. Begun when her brother was in a lengthy coma, it is a private collaboration with his handwritten field guide of prairie grasses.

Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents The Poem is Happening! with Jennifer Still, author of Comma. What are the connections between poetic form, composition, and environment? Engage in exploratory writing exercises with an aim to spur ideas, gather new language, and tweak your writing eye/ear to immediate, unexpected influences.

Victoria Festival of Authors presents "The Literary Twist": featuring Leanne Dunic, author of To Love the Coming End. Also with Zoe Whittall, and author/musician Geoff Berner. Emceed by Yasuko Thanh. Join us for an evening of cocktails provided by local Sheringham Distillery with a dash of poetry & song by Leanne Dunic, a novel splash […]

Thin Air Winnipeg International Writers Festival presents The Mainstage: Poetry Bash, featuring Jennifer Still, author of Comma. What keeps people coming back to the Poetry Bash year after year? A new group of wordsmiths, with wild ideas and fresh language! Featuring Natalie Appleton, Kate Cayley, Jeramy Dodds, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, and Jennifer Still. Tickets: $12.00 […]