Don't miss Nduka Otiono reading from his selected work, DisPlace, VERSeFest, Sunday, March 24 at Spark Beer with AJ Dolman and Myriam Legault-Beauregard

.ehjchang (same @ on bsky) 🏳️‍🌈 reading new poems in canthius & rob mclennan's Peter F. Yacht Club #versefest edition

Tonight at VerseFest!

Chantal Neveu’s poetry blurs language and the body, and the page becomes a place of uneasy repose. We can't wait to hear her work as Chantal's delivers a bilingual l reading this Thursday at our #versefest event. Tickets and details info at verseottawa.ca/en/events?date…

a wonderful lecture this afternoon by Amy Dennis about ekphrasis, the work of Arschile Gorky & confessional poetry for the Factory Reading Series event hosted by rob mclennan for #versefest
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Busy feet of busy participants in the Versefest chapbook binding workshop. Thanks to Tiffany for co-presenting and to Avonlea at VF for the idea! Participants received their own mini kit with mini tweezers, bulldog clip, upholstery needle, and eraser to turn needle to punch awl.

Dragged myself out to the John Barton Versefest event. I will semi social and listen to music-poems.

enjoying the nesting levels of live video currently happening in the VERSeFest livestream

Tonight, my co-pilot AJ Dolman reads fron her debut Gordon Hill Press poetry collection Crazy / Mad at VERSeFest Ottawa, Ottawa's international poetry festival.  They are part of a stellar roster.
Thrilled, excited and proud.
If you're around, come on down. Free event.

Go to the #VERSeFest livestream & VERSe Ottawa Youtube Channel here to catch this or other #Ottawa poetry events this week:
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Unflinching, funny and bare in oh so many ways, Molly Cross-Blanchard's EXHIBITIONIST hit close to home when it came out during the pandemic, and we are thrilled that she is coming to Ottawa to be part of our #VERSeFEST lineup tomorrow. Tickets and info: verseottawa.ca/en/events?date…
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if you are coming down to #versefest tonight for Riverbed Reading Series & the VERSe Ottawa Best of #Ottawa feature here are the road closures taking place in the area from 4pm onwards. may impact you depending where you are coming from.

See you tonight #Ottcity !
🎵📖 #CodaForTheVictims
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Thanks Avonlea Fotheringham+ VERSe Ottawa team & event partners for bringing back #Ottawa #VerseFest in 2023💜
An enriching week, warm rooms of smiling ears & faces, poetry a sweet power to rebuild #OttArts community

There are 4 more days of VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, available to attend virtually and in-person. See what's on tonight: verseottawa.ca/en/events VERSe Ottawa #OttawaFestivals #GetFestive

VERSeFest ‘23 begins this wkd and I’m super stoked bc not only is it my first #versefest ever, but I will be both co-hosting Riverbed Reading Series’ event (7pm, Mar 23) with Nina Jane + featuring at canthius’ panel (1pm, Mar 19) 🔥 I can’t wait to surround myself with…[1/2]

Leading up to Saturday #Versefest 7pm
Nerves softening+heart already swelling,
hearing early song demos from John Barton sonnets. Mar 25 will be such a beautiful night
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Woodpigeon 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍉 John Ian
Seiiizi River W. +more🎵
🙏Vehicule Press

To celebrate VERSeFest 2024, periodicities has shared an interview with Laila Malik, author of archipelago! Laila sits down with Manahil Bandukwala to answer some questions about interconnectedness, folktales, and grief in her poetry collection.
Read here: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/03/manahi…

SATURDAY 7 PM–8 PM EST
2023 #VERSeFest Opening Night!

VERSe Ottawa #Ottawa
MARCH 18

Poets:
JANE MUNRO -2015 @GriffinPoetry Prize Winner
BREN SIMMERS -2022 CBC Arts Poetry Prize

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#OttCity Knox Church (Elgin/ Lisgar)
$15 in-person /FREE livestream

Lots of LGBTQ2S+ poets attending next week's VERSeFest Ottawa poetry festival in Ottawa! Full schedule/ticket info to be posted, but for now, check out Arc Poetry Magazine's event on Fri Mar 24 feat. Annick MacAskill, Devon Rae, & Plenitude's managing editor Patrick Grace!

verseottawa.ca/event/arc2023