April 21 - 28 2013We don't just stage an annual festival!
The Edmonton Poetry Festival Society is committed to promoting the art and fun of poetry in Edmonton on a year-round basis. We work with various Edmonton groups and individuals to accomplish this.
Monthly Reading Series
Our cafe reading series begins on September 22, 2012. The series runs on the fourth Saturday of each month at Cafe Tiramasu in Edmonton, 10750 – 124 street, 3:00pm – 5:00pm. The events include a feature reader along with an open-mic segment. Come down and join us for some Saturday afternoon poetics!
The Poetry Route
The Poetry Route is an Edmonton Poetry Festival project that puts poems into ETS buses and LRT trains. It’s a three-year project with three 12-week flights of poems circulating the transit vehicles per year. The first flight will begin circulating in the buses in mid-April, 2011, and the others will launch in September and January with a similar schedule for 2012 and 2013. The primary funders of the project are the Edmonton Arts Council, the Edmonton Poetry Festival, and Edmonton Transit.
Poets In The Schools
Poets in The Schools is a program by the Edmonton Poetry Festival that aims to connect local, national, and international poets with school-aged children & youth in Edmonton. The Poets in the Schools program works with poets who can appeal to students from a range of cultures, and with poetry styles like slam and hip-hop poetry that reach out to young people.
