November 1 8:00 pm
Ian Kamau — LOSS
Toronto-based author and hip-hop artist Ian Kamau is joined by musician/composer Njo Kong Kie in this multi-faceted exploration of mental health struggles using story-telling, poetry, and visuals.
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November 3 7:00 pm
Alex Leslie launches We All Need To Eat with special guests
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November 3 7:30 pm
The Poetry Harvest! A fundraiser for Unravelling in Rhymes
The South Asian Youth (SAY) Collective presents: The Poetry Harvest! A fundraiser for Unravelling in Rhymes, a poetry and writing workshop series for women, non-binary, trans, and genderfluid folks.
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November 6 7:00 pm
carte blanche Launch Reading!
carte blanche presents a double launch event of both its Summer Issue 33 and its brand new Fall Issue 34, with poetry and prose from a selection of local contributors!
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November 6 7:00 pm
MRB Fall Launch with Kathy Dobson, Melissa Bull, and Lori Weber
Celebrate the launch of the Fall issue of the Montreal Review of Books! The evening will feature readings by three writers: Kathy Dobson will read from her memoir Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada’s Toughest Neighbourhood, Melissa Bull from her short story collection The Knockoff Eclipse, and Lori Weber from her YA short story collection Deep Girls.
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November 6 7:00 pm
P O E T R Y N I T E 120
More info here | Kafein, 1429A Bishop St.
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November 9 6:30 pm
J. R. Carpenter launches An Ocean of Static, with Deanna Radford
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November 11 7:00 pm
Throw Poetry Collective | November SLAM- Featuring Rabbit Richards!
Le Cagibi
6596 St. Laurent
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November 11 8:00 pm
Metatron Press Presents | 11:11 Fully Charged
~READINGS~
Liz Bowen (NYC)
Aeon Ginsberg (Baltimore)
Chase Berggrun (NYC)
Marcela Huerta
Pamela Beyer
Natalia Hero
Eli Tareq
Tara McGowan-Ross
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November 14 5:00 pm
LASER 6: Ecologies X Voice X Body X Atmosphere
A fleeting encounter between poetry and dance in an atmospheric scenography entitled Atmospheres conceived by the Topological Media Lab (TML) and presented in their research-creation laboratory at Concordia University.
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November 14 7:00 pm
Guernica’s 40th Anniversary Montreal Event
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November 16 7:00 pm
Writers Read Concordia presents CAConrad
York Amphitheatre, Room EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine
DOORS will be open just before 7pm.
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November 17 4:00 pm
Reading: Broadbent, Cormier-Larose, Jamali Rad, Lafrance
L’Euguélionne, librairie féministe
1426 Beaudry
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November 20 7:00 pm
P O E T R Y N I T E 121
Kafein, 1429A Bishop St. | Full event info here.
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November 22 7:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | ‘Langues liées // Linked Tongues’
A collaborative multilingual event showcasing poetry in English, Arabic, Korean, Creole, Spanish, French, Innu-aimun, Italian, Occitan, Persian, Portuguese, and Wolof…on one stage!
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November 23 8:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Moving Pictures and Borders
The Quebec premiere of ‘Moving Pictures and Borders’ – an astounding collaborative digital project that has seen poets and film-makers from Quebec, England, South Africa, Croatia, Trinidad & Tobago, and Bangladesh work together in 2018 across artform and language to produce six original filmpoems.
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November 24 1:00 pm
QWF & AELEQ Book Fair | Tell It Slant: Memoir at an Angle
Will Aitken, Antigone Undone
Erín Moure, Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots
Lindsay Nixon, nîtisânak
Moderated by Jacob Wren, Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-Art
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November 24 7:00 pm
Triny Finlay and Lucas Crawford
Argo Bookshop, 1915 St-Catherine St. W. | More event info here.
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November 24 9:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Deep Curation: A Poetry Reading
Four poets perform an interwoven, responsive reading, answering and echoing one another’s work.
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November 24 10:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Poésie Flamenco
Poésie Flamenco is a multilingual poetry dancing! The performance will take you on a journey into the poetry of flamenco and — with surprise guest Montreal poets — a journey into the flamenco of poetry.
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