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= Verse Ottawa =

Verse Ottawa is a coalition of poetry organizations based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 2010 by Ottawa-based poets Rod Pederson, Monty Reid, David O'Meara, rob mclennan, and others, with the goal to host an annual international poetry festival, VerseFest, and lobby the City of Ottawa to revive the Ottawa Poet Laureate Program. The first edition of VerseFest was hosted in 2010 at SAW Gallery. The Poet Laureate program was launched in 2017 and features two poets (one Francophone and one Anglophone) for terms of two years. Verse Ottawa occasionally hosts additional events, including Laureate City.

List of Affiliated Organizations

 * A.B. Series (defunct)
 * Arc Poetry Magazine - founding member
 * Plan 99 - founding member
 * Factory Reading Series - founding member
 * Capital Slam (defunct)
 * Urban Legends
 * Tree Reading Series - founding member
 * Blue Mondays (defunct)
 * Show and Tell/KEYBOARDS!
 * In/Words Magazine (defunct)
 * Riverbed
 * Ottawa International Writersfest
 * Canthius Magazine
 * Trois Rivieres
 * KaDo
 * Qu'ART

List of Affiliated Sponsors

 * Trillium Foundation
 * City of Ottawa
 * Canada Council for the Arts
 * Ontario Arts Council
 * SASK Arts
 * Haiku Canada
 * Carleton University
 * University of Ottawa
 * Embassy of Iceland
 * Embassy of Japan
 * US Library of Congress
 * Culture Ireland

2023-2025

 * David O'Meara (Anglophone Poet Laureate)
 * Michel Therien (Francophone Poet Laureate)

2021-2023

 * Albert Dumont (Anglophone Poet Laureate)
 * Gilles Latour (Francophone Poet Laureate)

2019-2020

 * Deanna Young (Anglophone Poet Laureate)
 * Margaret Michèle Cook (Francophone Poet Laureate)

2017-2018

 * Andrée Lacelle (Francophone Poet Laureate)
 * Jamaal Jackson Rogers (Anglophone Poet Laureate)