We're 1 week away from our Tragically Hip Mashed Poetics show at Chill-X Studios April 18th. Tickets here zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketin… VancouverPoetryHouse steve newton CBC Arts Vancouver Sun Arts CFOX Rock 101 Daniel Chai Stir Vancouver

Our next reading is at our new home Outsiders and Others: Pancouver Georgia Straight CBC Vancouver UBC School of Creative Writing SFU English Talonbooks Anvil Press PRISM international (Submissions Open!)

Poetry Month continues with a quote from "Mi Casa" by Luis Daniel Salgado This year's theme for #poetrymonth is family. Comment below with your favourite family poem/quote & you may see it on our socials this month! Read the entire poem: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine… #sfuenglish

Enjoy a peek into poet Pamela Porter's mystical worldview in her conversation with Rob Taylor. 📚 The author of Between the Bell Struck and the Silence talks about death as transition not end, birding, and writing as an act of faith. Caitlin Press buff.ly/mPUXtgY

'Owl's Bouquet' stonecut and stencil by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

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We highly approve of this rejigging of the poetry vending machine we’ve been filling with poems for a goodly number of years now for a break for Bloomsday: “Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

Hey, poetry lovers! This is coming your way in Vancouver in two weeks!

The University of the Fraser Valley is looking for our 2026 Writer in Residence! The deadline is August 15th. To learn more and to apply, visit: ufv.ca/english/writer…

For the next DPRS, we’re partnering up with Word Vancouver! See you at Outsiders and Others September 14th!

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Here come the living poets with their poets from days gone by: University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University Pancouver CBC British Columbia Rob Taylor

An updated poster for our little reading series that has had a big impact on audiences over the past 18 years! Yes, 18! Next year the DPRS will be of legal drinking age! Come imbibe on the sobering & giddy-making powers of poetry November 16th with this lovely line up! #poetry

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If you haven’t made your Xmas wish list yet, there’s time to get these poets’ books so you can study up before January 11th or if you want to stick to your original Xmas wishes, you can let these living poets deliver all the goods on four remarkable poets from the past. January11

This Sunday afternoon at 3pm will be our first DPRS for 2026 at Outsiders and Others downtown Vancouver. Join us to start the year off right! Simon Fraser University Pancouver University of British Columbia The Poetry Society