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.
To start 2025, I'll be reading at Antler River Poetry in London Ontario.
I will be reading an excerpt from my essay “The Song of the Self Service Checkout” to celebrate the new issue of untethered. Online!
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.
I’ll be in Victoria, British Columbia reading at Planet Earth Poetry, a reading series that has been going for over 2 decades.
Hallelujah I’m reading in Toronto!
Join us for the zoom launch of A Possible Trust.
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!
A live in person reading! My first in three years.
I will be reading new poems for the online launch of Canthius Magazine’s new issue. Two of my poems are published there.
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.
Please join me as I launch my new chapbook, Who is your mercy contact?
Join us for the launch of Best Canadian Poetry 2021. Thrilled to be part of it.
4 Pedlar Press authors read from their works on a Sunday afternoon.
I’ll be reading new poems in this half hour afternoon event. Hosted by the Bayshore Seniors Club and funded by The League of Canadian Poets. Online & free.
To register write to info@bayshoreseniors.ca and put “poetry” in the subject line.
This 3 day festival to benefit survivors of torture will present readings and performances by Tracy Chevalier, Thandie Newton, Jackie Kay, Caleb Femi, Daljit Nagra, Ian McMillan, Imtiaz Dharker, Inua Ellams and more.
Alongside the fesitval is an online auction. Many amazing prizes have been donated by authors, poets and celebrities including @terenceblacker @kateclanchy1 @bernardineEvari and many more! All funds raised go to @freefromtorture.
Bid in the #ResilienceAuction to receive a poetry prescription session with me! Bid now!!
Martha Baillie, author of Sister Language, in conversation with poet, Ronna Bloom
A weekend retreat for Educators and Learners focusing on Compassion, Pedagogy and Curriculum. This will be an interdisciplinary group coming from Health Care, Indigenous Studies, Library and more.
I will be presenting the workshop “Awake at Work.”
If you’re interested, there are just a few spots. Contact me. Or email kristen.jones@lakeheadu.ca
I’ll be reading in the DRAFT Reading Series along with Doyali Islam and Leslie Shimotakahara, along with brief readings from Nasim Asgari, Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, Amanda Hale, Mahak Jain and Mark Sampson.
A conversation with a poet-physician, a poet-patient, and the Mount Sinai poet-in-residence.
With Dr. Shane Neilson, author of Dysphoria (PQL); Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst (Biblioasis); and Ronna Bloom, author of The More (Pedlar Press).
Moderated by Dr. Allan Peterkin, Head, Department of Health, Arts and Humanities, U of T
Rhinoceros: Luxury’s Fragile Frontier
An exhibition and symposium in a fragile city
This symposium and exhibition bring together an international group of artists, conservationists, poets, writers, and historians, who will explore the often surprising intersections between these two endangered objects of mass luxury consumption.
(Artwork by Nikki Kovesi)
Hi friends, I'll be reading with Sarah Tolmie and Shane Neilson at the wonderful Bookshelf book store in Guelph Ontario.
Bookshelf, 41 Quebec St., Guelph, Ontario
7:30PM
Join editors Fiona Tinwei Lam and Jane Silcott as they launch their new anthology "Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups and Downs of Marriage" alongside a long list of Toronto-local contributors! Come to Ben McNally at 366 Bay Street and enjoy yourself in the company of sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging poetry and nonfiction prose.
Readers for this event include: Ayelet Tsabari, Eufemia Fantetti, Maureen Hynes, Ronna Bloom, Samra Zafar, Maureen Scott Harris, Lauren McKeon, Lorri Nielsen Glenn, Donna Besel, Susan Olding, Gina Leola Woolsey as well as Fiona Tinwei Lam and Jane Silcott.
Free admission. Books available for sale & signing. Bring friends!
I’ll be reading from my new book, The More, at at the long-running Tree Reading Series in Ottawa. Can't wait to be back in Ottawa. Post-skating, pre-tulip season.
For more information contact info@treereadingseries.ca or visit http://treereadingseries.ca/readings
This event has been cancelled due to an emergency in the family of one of the participants. We hope to reschedule when we can be together with poetry.
We are grateful to The League of Canadian Poets and The Canada Council for Arts for their support of this program.
I will be reading from The More in St. John's joining fellow Pedlar Press poet Jack Davis with his new book Fauna.
3-5PM
125 Allandale Road; St. John's, NL
Join artist Yaara Eshet and myself for a reading and conversation about the process and the work in Hello, Other Moon.
