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  • Citizen Poet Lauren Peat, Write Like a River workshop, August 20, 2025

    Citizen Poet Lauren Peat, Write Like a River workshop, August 20, 2025

    Lauren Peat is holding a workshop at the site of her Here, Hearing Residency. Please click here for $15 tickets. It starts at 6:30pm at Enabling Arts, 104-343 Railway St., Vancouver.

  • Summer Sounds and Sonics in Poetic Form, July 22, 2025

    Summer Sounds and Sonics in Poetic Form, July 22, 2025

    Meet the Poetry Ambassadors! City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner hosts a night of poems with poetry ambassadors Johnny Trinh, Kevin Spenst, and Marc Perez. These four poets with distinct craft practices invite you to consider the role of sounds and sonics within the framework of the poem. Vocalizations, modulations, polyphony, multilingualism, repetition, call…

  • Friday Night Frogs, July 18, 2025

    Friday Night Frogs, July 18, 2025

    Come meander and listen to REAL frogs! No agenda, no plan, no time constraint. All welcome! We will gently gather around 9:30pm at the water feature at Mundell Park at UBC Wesbrook Village and enjoy the chorus. Stay 5 mins or 500, it’s up to you! This is a low-stakes, listening to nature event and…

  • Poetry in the Park, July 2, 2025

    Poetry in the Park, July 2, 2025

    Royal City Literary Arts Society presents  Poetry in the Park 2025 Opening NightWednesday July 2, 6:30 pm – 8:30pmQueen’s Park Bandshell, New WestminsterFeature Poets Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Kevin SpenstWith Host Jonina Kirton Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and…

  • sometimes, forest launch OTTAWA June 23, 2026

    sometimes, forest launch OTTAWA June 23, 2026

    Perfect Books, 258 Elgin St, Ottawa, 6:30pm With David O’Meara (Ottawa Anglophone Poet Laureate) and Chris Turnbull

  • sometimes, forest launch KINGSTON, June 24, 2026

    sometimes, forest launch KINGSTON, June 24, 2026

    June 24, 2026, 7pm Novel Idea, 156 Princess St, Kingston, Ontario reading with Kingston Poet Laureate Sadiqa de Meijer

  • sometimes, forest launch TORONTO, June 25, 2026

    sometimes, forest launch TORONTO, June 25, 2026

    Flying Books, 784 College St, 6:30pm The evening, hosted by Gary Barwin, will feature a reading, musical performance, and interview. Flying Books is a fully-accessible venue. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/sometimesforesttoronto.”