The League Reads was a pair of annual poetry readings featuring Nova Scotian members of the League of Canadian Poets. Held in 2018 and 2019 at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia headquarters, the readings were free to attend.
On October 11, 2018, The League Reads featured poets Brian Bartlett, Karin Cope, Miriam Dunn, Anne Simpson, and Margo Wheaton.
On October 17, 2019, The League Reads featured poets Janet Barkhouse, Deidre Dwyer, Chad Norman, Anne Simpson, and Margo Wheaton.
The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia is based in Kjipuktuk, in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship,” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725.
The treaties do not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognize Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and establish the rules for an ongoing relationship between nations.
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