Events
Feb 22, 2024 (Zoom): Freedom to Read Week with Farzana Doctor and Gary Geddes
Join the League of Canadian Poets to celebrate Freedom to Read Week with TWUC Freedom to Read Award-winners Farzana Doctor and Gary Geddes! The evening will include poetry readings from Farzana and Gary, and short discussion about the importance of free expression and the freedom to read in Canada.
Read MoreFeb 28, 2024 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations
In Cross-Pollinations, health humanities and poetry come together under the same scope, combining artistic expression with health practice and research.
Read MoreFeb. 17, 2024 (Zoom): Drop-in poetry consultations with Tara Borin
Drop in on Zoom to workshop your poetry with Poet Ambassador in Residence Tara Borin! Registration required.
Read MoreHeartfelt: Custom poems for Valentine’s Day
Book a virtual appointment with a Canadian poet to craft an unforgettable Valentine’s Day gift: a custom poem, written just for you after a short conversation.
Read MoreFeb 8, 2024 (Zoom): Black History Month open mic
January 31, 2024 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations
In Cross-Pollinations, health humanities and poetry come together under the same scope, combining artistic expression with health practice and research.
Read More2023 Anne Szumigalski Lecture – Joshua Whitehead
The 2023 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: On Reparative vs Paranoid Writing The Ethics and Carework of Storytelling with Joshua Whitehead Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick introduced us to paranoid vs reparative reading in her book, Touching Feeling, in which she argues against a hermeneutics of readerly suspicion as coined by philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, and calls for us to…
Read MoreNovember 29, 2023 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations
In Cross-Pollinations, health humanities and poetry come together under the same scope, combining artistic expression with health practice and research.
Read MoreSeptember 27, 2023 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations
In Cross-Pollinations, health humanities and poetry come together under the same scope, combining artistic expression with health practice and research.
Read More2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture – Tolu Oloruntoba
The 2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: What have we left to us? Examining questions as a means of existential analysis in poetry with Tolu Oloruntoba This lecture is now available in print from Prairie Fire, Winter 22-23 Issue, Volume 43, No. 4. Check it out On the heels of a special Spring Anne Szumigalski Lecture from Parliamentary…
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