Vancouver will host the Poetry In Voice National Finals (May 12 to May 15, 2025) bringing together the nation’s top reciters. 

Vancouver Poetry House presents the 14th annual Verses Festival of Words running April 18 to 27, 2024 at venues across the city.

The 9th annual Verses Festival of Words in Vancouver (April 25 to May 4, 2019) celebrates the transformative power of words – written, spoken or sung.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC welcomes Hawaii’s first official poet laureate Kealoha on October 3rd as part of the Beyond Words series at the Telus Studio Theatre. Enter to win a pair of tickets from Miss604.

Benjamin Hertwig will read from his debut poetry collection “Slow War” at the historic Seaforth Armoury on Friday. Nominated for this year’s Governor General’s Award in Poetry, “Slow War” is only the second collection of poetry to be published by a Canadian veteran of the war in Afghanistan.