Words on the Water
02 Sep 2026 • 06:00 PM–08:00 PM Eastern
NCC River House • 501 Sir George-Étienne Cartier Parkway
All proceeds go to the Riverkeeper.
Join Ottawa Poet Laureates David O'Meara and Véronique Sylvain, along with eight exceptional local poets, for an inspiring evening of readings in both English and French. Through stories of nature, memory, place, and belonging, experience the river from new perspectives.
Featuring: Jean Marc Dalpé, David Galvaude, Harold Hoefle, Christine McNair, Sarah Migneron, stephanie roberts, Alexis Rodrigue-Lafleur, and Mahaila Smith.
The Poets
Ottawa poet Christine McNair's second poetry collection Charm came out from BookThug.
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Harold Hoefle's debut poetry collection is The Night Chorus, ( McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018).
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Poet, playwright and translator Jean Marc Dalpe has won the Governor-General's literary award three times.
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David Galvaude is a situationist and exploratory poet.
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Pigeon rouge
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stephanie roberts dreams of a compassion-based society and wrote UNMET
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Poetry Sample / In Translation
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UNMET
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