ottawa poetry newsletter

The writers fest was a success by any count with great attendance, and happy crowds from what I could see. For more posts on the Ottawa Writ...

[i apologize that i can't count, noticed my numbering has been off for the entire fest...egad] the festival ended last night with House ...

Poetry Cabaret 2 took place at the Ottawa International Writers Festival last night and featured Nathaniel G. Moore, R.M. Vaughn and Steve V...

In conjunction with MAYWORKS , the labour arts festival, National Poetry Month presents five world-travelling and genre-bending Ottawa area ...

was jam packed with three events in a row of interest to folks of a poetry bent. all three events were well attended and the Poetry Cabaret ...

Michael Dennis hosted Rachel Zolf, Fred Wah and Stuart Ross at the Poetry Cabaret #1 on opening night of the Spring edition of the Ottawa...

For Poetry month the Ottawa Public Library is running the Canal Mug Poetry series at the Sunnyside branch (1049 Bank St.) in April. They run...

Cameron Anstee As a student most of my reading during the academic year is for class, but I've been lucky this semester. I'm in a co...

It might have been the biggest turnout for the reading series so far at the usual City Hall venue. Around 50 people came, with standing room...

The Arc Poetry Society is accepting submissions for the 2008 Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry. Named after the 19th-century Confederation poe...

A little over a week ago, a leak from Heritage Canada showed that they were preparing new guidelines about what was eligible for film produc...

The CBC Poetry Faceoff was Feb 25 in Ottawa. The show will be aired on Bandwidth on Saturday but a full room at 4th stage NAC got to see t...

Ian Roy was the feature reader on Feb 12 at the Tree reading series . He read from Red Bird . (Good title. Mary Oliver will be snatching ...

Dear Ottawa Poetry Aficionados, For those of you who missed my review of Basement Tapes by Marcus McCann, Andrew Faulkner and Nick Lea, in ...

If you haven't filled it out yet, there's still time... We're developing a strategic plan to help us continue to grow the Festiv...

Bywords Warms the Night V Sunday, January 20, 2008, 2pm Chapters, 47 Rideau Street Launch of the winter Bywords Quarterly Journal with read...

NEW YEAR SPOKEN WORD CHECK-IN 2008 looks very good from this end. Here are a few of the things I'm looking forward to in the next month,...

a roundup of mostly poetry updates by Ottawa's poets. Mike Blouin ( I’m Not Going to Lie to You , Pedlar Press , 2007) Currently I am s...

Here are some pictures from the reading we had on December 22, 2007 at The Carleton Tavern [ check out John W. MacDonald photos of previous ...

mother tongue books OPEN HOUSE and BIRTHDAY PARTY, TEMBO * FUNDRAISER and, Celebration of Ottawa women poets; Passed and Present. Sunday, 2n...