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

10:30 AM Eastern: Planting Seeds: Nature Poetry on the Trail

Fletcher Wildlife Garden • near 865, Prince of Wales Dr, Ottawa

Sneha Madhavan-Reese
English Local
Conyer Clayton
English Local
Anita Lahey
English Local
Blaine Marchand
English
David O’Meara
English Local
D.S. Stymeist
English Local
Ellen Chang-Richardson
English
Laurie Koensgen
English Local Canada

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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