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Arts & Culture
Edmonton Poetry Festival
April 2, 2025 to April 27, 2025
By donation
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Even more delightful events are underway, so be sure to stay tuned and check on this page while enjoying all that the Festival and its friends have to offer throughout April!
More dates and times
- Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 6:00pm at Felice Cafe — VERS/E: Queer Poetry Open Mic
- Friday, April 4, 2025 at 5:30pm at Stony Plain Public Library — Comedy Poetry Café: Celebrating Stony Plain Library’s 80th Anniversary
- Friday, April 4, 2025 at 7:00pm at Night of Artists Gallery — KinSpeak: A Performance in the Voices of our Non-Human Kin
- Friday, April 4, 2025 at 9:30pm at Rapid Fire Exchange — POETRYSPORTS at the BONFIRE Festival
- Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 2:00pm at Strathcona County Library — Celebration of Poetry
- Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 8:15pm at Grindstone Theatre — Soul Speak
- Monday, April 7, 2025 at 7:00pm at Upper Crust Cafe — Haven Reading Series
- Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 3:30pm at University of Alberta (Rutherford Library South) — galáxias Book Launch
- Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6:30pm at — The Carrot Cafe Poetry Night
- Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 7:00pm at Rooster Cafe & Kitchen — The Olive Reading Series
- Monday, April 14, 2025 at 6:30pm at The Aviary — The Blinks 2025
- Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10:30am at Unity Church of Edmonton — Poetry & Stillness
- Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 6:30pm at Roxy Theatre — Dapper Dan’s Indian & Outlaw Extravaganza
- Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 6:30pm at The Kasbar — The Nightingale Spoken Word Series: Open Mic Night!
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 5:00pm at University of Alberta (Rutherford Library South) — Literary Editions
- Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 1:00pm at — Parenting Poets Open Mic
- Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 1:00pm at — Poetry Playroom
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