Literary arts

Edmonton’s Poet Laureate Shima Robinsson (AKA Dwennimmen)  invites you to come down to The Aviary for An Evening With The Poet Laureate.  This 2025 Edmonton Poetry Festival finale event will feature samplings of Dwennimmen’s unique flow and form, including: insight and presentation of works commissioned during her Laureate tenure; and a musical, collaborative exploration of Dwennimmen’s earlier work such as her first book Horn.

C’est le 10e anniversaire du French Twist, présenté dans le cadre du Edmonton Poetry Festival !

Pierrette Requier animera la soirée dans les deux langues officielles, créant un pont linguistique et culturel, pour en faire une vitrine par excellence des diverses voix artistiques francophones, qu’ils soient dramaturges, musiciens, ou poètes.

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It’s the 10th anniversary of the French Twist, presented as part of the Edmonton Poetry Festival!

Literary Editions is co-hosted by the Edmonton Poetry Festival.

This annual poetry event will feature online readings from UAlberta Press’ newest collections: This Sweet Rupture by Omar Ramadan, When Whales Went Back to the Water by Lisa Baird, and Python Love by Shannon Arntfield, all hosted by Aaron Kreuter. 

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The Edmonton Poetry Festival Society  is proud to present, to feature, to showcase, to provide for your viewing and aural pleasure a curated evening of poetics, politics, dance, & culture such as you are not likely to see the likes of any other place but at The Lorne Cardinal Theatre on April 19 as part of Theatre Networks’ celebrated Phoenix Series. 

Come celebrate THE TWENTY Youth Poetry Collection! The Edmonton Poetry Festival Society (EPFS) is launching a youth poetry book to showcase up-and-coming voices in poetry, as part of the festival’s 20th anniversary! The publication features 20 unique and thoughtful young poets responding to the prompt “my turn of phrase”. This event will feature 10 poets in the collection (along with another 10 at Part Two), plus opportunities for performance, connection and community for poets of every age.

Join the Edmonton Poetry Festival Society at The Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers (SNAP) Gallery for an exploration of why-wait-to-be-published-when-you-can-do-it-yourself chapbook production. Facilitators Big Al and Abbigail Ketsa offer a sample of some of the methods you could borrow or straight-up steal to create, decorate, and procreate your own unique chapbook. 

The Blinks 2025 is not your robot’s poetry! This year is all about “Putting the Art in Artificial Intelligence”. This event is invented and presented by the Stroll of Poets at the Edmonton Poetry Festival and has been for 20 years, making it one of the Festival’s founding events — and our birthday twin!

This year the Edmonton Poetry Festival turns 20! That’s 20 years coming together as a community to enjoy the varied poetic voices that ripple throughout our region. 20 years got us reflecting on the importance of community and how everyone – poets, artists, audiences, volunteers, collaborators and more – is essential to a successful festival.