Shab-e She’r is known as Canada’s most diverse and brave reading series and it has been led by Banoo Zan for 13 years. She brings together people in such a way as to create community and comfort and welcome. And to encourage risk. I will be reading there together with Mbonzi Zikhali Zomkhonto.
I’ll be offering poetry prescriptions on one of the days (maybe both) and on Sunday, a panel conversation called “The Medicine of Words: On Poetry and Healing.” Details here.
I will be reading in the Mississauga campus of Sheridan College for the Ampersand Review reading series with Charlie Petch, author and performer who will knock your socks off. We both have new books out with Brick Books this fall.
Ten of my poems will appear in this year’s Lakeshore West Garden Tour.
Come!
A new online training course starts in January. Apple now!
To start 2025, I'll be reading at Antler River Poetry in London Ontario.
I’ll be online reading at this weekend festival with some of this country’s most exciting writers including Tolu Oloruntuba, Tyler Penneck, and many others.
An online session in the service of connection, writing and peace.
I will be reading an excerpt from my essay “The Song of the Self Service Checkout” to celebrate the new issue of untethered. Online!
I have a new huge piece of work (huge from a poet’s perspective) called “Catfisher Dharma” in Brick Magazine, issue 113 and will be reading a brief excerpt at the launch.
A poetry reading in Toronto at Caversham Booksellers
I’ll be reading with Irish poet Jean Tuomey as part of an online reading series from overseas. A first.
The Spontaneous Poetry Booth goes to the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre for National Poetry Month.
I’ll be in Victoria, British Columbia reading at Planet Earth Poetry, a reading series that has been going for over 2 decades.
A reading with Rhea Tregebov!
Hallelujah I’m reading in Toronto!
Join us for the zoom launch of A Possible Trust.
An intensive 1.5 day training programme for health care workers
I’ll be reading and leading a workshop at the Wild Writers Literary Festival in Waterloo Ontario. Presented by The New Quarterly literary magazine, Words Worth Books, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Ronna will read from her new poetry collection A Possible Trust, speak about the connection between health and the arts.
Reflecting on the missing conversations in the lives of health care workers, through poetry.
A Possible Trust launches at Wychwood Public Library with a reading and snacks. Hosted by Alayna Munce. Everyone welcome!
Ronna Bloom and Riverwalk Commons present The Spontaneous Poetry Booth and Lunch with the Poets!
A live in person reading! My first in three years.
Every day you see women –– family members, colleagues and friends –– but especially women who are patients. Some are in health, many in distress. And you see them through many different lenses as clinicians, administrators, and researchers. In this workshop, through poetry and writing you'll have the opportunity to recognize, and perhaps celebrate, yourselves, your work, and the women around you.
No writing experience necessary.
Open to all health care professionals
Sponsored by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
Online. Register here.
I will be reading new poems for the online launch of Canthius Magazine’s new issue. Two of my poems are published there.
In this virtual training course, participants will learn how to create spaces for expression, understanding and connection through poetry.
A writing and reflection workshop on vocation, purpose, intention, and burnout in the lives of health care workers. An online session.
Use writing to explore how simply showing up and attending to your own experience is the starting point for attending to others. An online session.
What do you need a poem for?
a writing workshop in partnership with Southwestern Ontario Military Family Resource Centre
Celebrate National Poetry Month AND Independent Bookstore Day with a reading on the theme of intimacy. With Angeline Janel Schellenberg, Kim Fahner, Arleen Pare and Ronna Bloom. Hosted by Kateri Lanthier. Sponsored by The League of Canadian Poets.
