November 14 7:00 pm
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine x Patrick Watson: Poésie de la Résistance, 7pm ET
POP Montreal and Suoni Per Il Popolo present:
NATASHA KANAPÉ FONTAINE x PATRICK WATSON
More info here & below.
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November 15 8:00 pm
Black Writers Out Loud, 8pm ET
This Sunday the Words & Music Show comes to you from the Sala Rossa with a special online show featuring some of Montreal’s top poets and spoken word artists in performance:
Roen Higgins
Fabrice Koffy
Faith Paré
Jason (Blackbird) Selman
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November 18 7:00 pm
Poets Corner Reading Series, 7pm PT
November’s virtual poetry reading will feature
Michael Prior and Kate Marshall Flaherty.
Full info and link here!
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November 23 8:30 pm
Atwater Poetry Project Online: Paul Celan/100 (8:30pm EST)
Erín Moure, Mark Goldstein, Jaclyn Piudik, Phil Hall, Oana Avasilichioaei, R. KoleweOn occasion it’s important to honour poets whose work continues to challenge, fascinate, and edify us — to draw together our Elsewhere Community so as to remind ourselves that our work is in concert with others.
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November 25 7:00 pm
Rapid Fire Reading, Ricochet Writing, 7pm EST
More info here & excerpted below!
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November 27 7:00 pm
Kaie Kellough and Canisia Lubrin, 7pm ET
Black Writers Out Loud is a series of QWF events celebrating Black literary arts in Quebec. This fourth event in the series is co-produced with the AELAQ, and features Kaie Kellough in conversation with Canisia Lubrin. These two award-winning authors from the worlds of poetry and prose come together to speak on their craft and all matters human.
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November 27 7:00 pm
Writers Read presents Kama La Mackerel and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch in conversation
More info here!
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November 29 6:00 pm
Theta Wave Fest Reading / Launch
6pm EST / 3pm PST || More info & register here!
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December 4 8:00 pm
Expozine 2020 | Épiques Zines : lectures/readings + lancement Dial-a-Poem
Expozine 2020 will take place as an interactive, live-streamed “virtual fair” on December 5 and 6, following readings and discussions held live on the web from December 1 – 4. Find all the info here, including the return of dial-a-poem here!
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December 9 6:15 pm
Paul Muldoon, Nicole Brossard, Matthew James Weigel, Joe Neubert • Vallum Chapbook Launch
Full info here!
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December 13 8:00 pm
The Words & Music Show, online
Roen Higgins
Naomi Steinberg
Klara du Plessis
Angela Szczepaniak
and Tatiana Koroleva
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December 16 12:00 pm
SFU’s Lunch Poems presents George Bowering & Gladys Maria Hindmarch, 12noon PST (3pm EST)
SFU’s Lunch Poems reading features
poets George Bowering and Gladys Maria Hindmarch.
More info here!
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December 17 1:39 pm
Talonbooks Poets, 5pm PST (8pm EST)
Talonbooks presents readings by Mercedes Eng, Margaret Christakos, Arleen Pare, Laiwan, and Gladys Maria Hindmarch. Intros by Cecily Nicholson, hosted by Sean Cranbury.
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December 20 3:00 pm
Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, online, 3pm PST / 6pm EST
Chris Evans
Sachi Murakami
Rebecca Salazar Leon
Terese Mason Pierre
Francine Cunningham
Anne Stone
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December 21 4:00 pm
Solstice Howl, 4pm ET
Join Writers Read for a howl, rant, or dance (or all three) – or join to listen!
Readings start at 4pm ET & register here!
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December 31 11:00 pm
The Poetry Project (NYC) presents “The 47th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon — 24-hour broadcast”
Starting at 11pm ET | More info here & here & excerpted below.
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January 9 2:00 pm
In/Verse Monthly Poetry Reading, 2pm PST (Vancouver)
Patrick Friesen
Jónína Kirton
Cecily Nicholson
Miranda Pearson
and hosted by Fiona Tinwei Lam
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January 12 1:00 pm
The Long Poem: Canisia Lubrin and Klara du Plessis
Full info here and excerpted below.
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January 19 2:30 pm
Reading by Kaie Kellough, 20/21 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University (2:30pm EST)
“Maroon Time: Time and Ancestry in the Poem,” an inaugural reading by Kaie Kellough, 20/21 Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University. Link to the Zoom event HERE!
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January 21 7:00 pm
Rencontres multilingues en poésie (Jan 21-28)
“Du 21 au 28 janvier 2021, se tient la toute première édition des Rencontres multilingues en poésie. Organisé par La poésie partout, ce projet rassembleur met en valeur la diversité linguistique et culturelle de la poésie d’ici et d’ailleurs. Au programme : un échange poétique et vidéo entre le Québec et la Colombie, un atelier d’écriture et un micro ouvert multilingues, ainsi qu’un cabaret de traduction en trois parties…”
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