Since 1995, Planet Earth Poetry (PEP) has been providing a celebratory space for both established and emerging poets—we’ve helped launch many hundreds of new books, supporting both local and national poets for 30 years! Many poets have grown with Planet Earth Poetry, beginning at the open mic, launching their first collections, etc. Consistent community support for the art of poetry over 30 years is extremely rare, not just in Canada, but throughout the world—especially at a time in human history when humans are more likely to scroll social media than crack open a poetry collection. Our outreach is exceptional—we’ll be launching a history page soon, where you can read more about the impact of this iconic reading series. Planet Earth Poetry is worth supporting!

We’re volunteer-run and supported by the community of Victoria in many ways—Russell Books Victoria presently supports Planet Earth Poetry by offering their bookstore for free every Friday night from Sept-June. But we do need to pay our featured poets each week, and we have basic operating costs. Your contributions go directly towards poet honoraria and our minimal operating costs. If you’d like to sponsor a particular poet and help with their travel from afar, please visit our SPONSOR A POET PAGE. We do heartily appreciate your contribution to our general funds (below).

Planet Earth Poetry is a registered charitable society! Please use the donation link below to access our SECURE and CRA approved Canada Helps page—donations over $25 will receive a tax receipt! We warmly thank you for your support. :)

Please DONATE HERE (and thank you kindly!)

We deeply appreciate the generous support of our amazing community. Your donations allow us present featured poets from BC and across Canada and to keep celebrating poetry!