Planet Earth Poetry is a 30-year-old weekly reading series celebrating poets and poetry. We hold in-person events every week from September—June (with a break in December) and feature local poets and poets from across Canada. We host the LONGEST RUNNING all-poetry open mic in Victoria!

Planet Earth Poetry is run entirely by volunteers (mostly poets). Please take a moment to scroll through the sections below BEFORE filling out the contact form—thank you for helping us reduce our inbox messages. (If you email questions that can be answered on this page, we will kindly direct you back to this page.)

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Please address all Planet Earth Poetry inquiries to the Artistic Director, Kyeren Regehr via the contact form on this page.
(Please send questions about Kyeren’s books/workshops/editing via her website HERE and direct any podcast queries HERE)

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POETS & PUBLISHERS:
If you are a poet with a new or forthcoming book and want to book a reading, you’ll find what you need ON THIS PAGE

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SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER at the BOTTOM of our HOMEPAGE (if it doesn’t automatically pop up, you’ll need to scroll all the way to the bottom)

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OPEN MIC QUESTIONS:
Please see our OPEN MIC PAGE.

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OUR LIVE EVENTS are open to the public and wheelchair accessible:
Our season runs from Sept-June with a break in December.
Friday Night Poetry: 7:30pm Russell Books 100-747 Fort Street, Downtown Victoria, BC
Our Friday events usually finish between 8:45pm and 9:00pm
Doors at 7pm, open mic sign up IN PERSON 7ish-7:20pm
Afternoon Poetry: we aim to host an afternoon event each month on Friday at 2pm (see the current month’s page for dates), but cannot always manage an afternoon event every month. Events are held at James Bay New Horizons 230 Menzies St, Victoria, BC
Doors at 1:30pm, open mic sign up IN PERSON 1:30-1:50pm
Our Friday afternoon events usually finish between 2:45pm and 3:00pm

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LIVESTREAM & YOUTUBE QUESTIONS:
We aim to begin our free and accessible livestream of Featured Poets after the open mic between 8pm-8:15pm.
Access livestream: HERE (Zoom credentials: Meeting ID: 494 660 4447 /Passcode: 2129)

Our featured readers will be posted on Planet Earth Poetry’s YOUTUBE, usually within a week of the live reading (sometimes poets choose not to be posted or livestreamed)

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POETRY NEWS for the PEP NEWSLETTER:
Poetry News for inclusion in our MONTHLY newsletter is always welcome. PLEASE READ the following information BEFORE sending your image file. All events must be open to the community (open mics, readings, book launches, contests, etc.)

1. We accept JPG & PNG files ONLY. Please do not send event information as text in an email or word document, we cannot use it—we cannot use PDF files either. (If you don’t have an image file for your event, you can build one using a site like Canva.)

2. For inclusion in the MONTHLY newsletter, files must be received no later than Tuesday before the FIRST MONDAY of each month (e.g. for the Monday Feb 2nd 2026 newsletter, we need all info on or before Tuesday 27th Jan) We will do our best to include your event, but cannot guarantee it due to limited space. We appreciate your understanding. :)

3. AFTER you’ve read the above information, please send your IMAGE FILE HERE

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MAILING ADDRESS: If you need to send us physical mail, please let us know and we’ll offer you an address. We are no longer maintaining a PO Box.

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PAYMENT for Planet Earth Poetry workshops and retreats:
Eventbrite is our preference (and we’ll offer etransfer as a back-up). We can also accept cash in a clearly labelled envelope at any Friday night event given directly to the host. We no longer accept checks for workshops and retreats.

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A NOTE ABOUT FORMER ARTISTIC DIRECTORS:
Our former AD, Zoe Dickinson, can be reached at Russell Books Victoria or via her WEBSITE
If you’re a longtime member of the PEP community, it’s likely that our email address will show us as belonging to Daniel G. Scott (the AD before Zoe), but we assure you this is a Google cache issue—you cannot reach Daniel via the PEP inbox.