VERSeFest 2026 : March 24-30, 2026
Misha Solomon! Karen Solie! Isabella Wang! Sheri-D Wilson! Jérôme Melançon!
Kacper Bartczak! Paul Vermeersch! Alexandre Yergeau! Jumoke Verissimo!
readings, performances and workshops!
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Immune compromised? Feeling under the weather and don't want to risk getting someone else sick? Broke as hell this month and need a by-donation option? Have out-of-town friends who wish they could attend the festival?
Thanks to our volunteer videographer, we will be livestreaming most of the shows (Sorry, Plan 99) right here for Pay What You Can donations. If what you can pay is Zero Dollars, that's fine. But if you can throw us some support, we'd love it.
Saturday Jun 27
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10:30 AM Eastern: Planting Seeds: Nature Poetry on the Trail
Fletcher Wildlife Garden • near 865, Prince of Wales Dr, Ottawa
Join us on an engaging nature walk through the Bill Holland Trail and the Fletcher Wildlife Garden with an interpreter and eight poets. All proceeds go to the Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library.
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