Edmonton Poetry Festival: The Great Black North

Starts: Thursday, April 25 4:00 PM

Ends: Thursday, April 25 6:00 PM

Welcome to the Edmonton Poetry Festival, 2013 edition. The festival will feature the brief but deadly art known as "blink poetry"; some super cool workshops; and tons of other events sure to satisfy any stripe of poetic interest. Some events are open for anyone to participate in and some are "featured events" wherein the readers are chosen for their top-shelf performance chops and your poetic enjoyment.

The Edmonton Poetry Festival kicked off in 2006, with the help of Edmonton's then-poet-laureate Alice Major and an organizing committee representing a wide range of poetry groups in the city. TELUS came on board as the founding sponsor. Victoria School for the Arts held its hugely successful poetry day, with dozens of local poets in classrooms and the Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Pauline Michel in the school theatre.

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Event Location

Campus Saint-Jean
Pavillon Lacerte
8406 Marie-Anne Gaboury Street NW
Edmonton, Alberta
T6C 4G9