In addition to our monthly workshops, TPS hosts special events during the year, including launches for each edition of TOWER POETRY. Please join us! All events are free and open to the public. (In case of weather or other emergencies, members and website visitors can consult the website four hours or less before the event in order to find out if it has been cancelled.)
Tower’s 2025 – 2026 Season!
- TPS Open Mic
Fool and Flagon — 2255 Barton St. E. — Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6:30 – 9 pm.
Past Events…
- TPS Book Launch at Fool and Flagon — 2255 Barton St. E. — Sunday, September 21, 2025, 1 – 4 pm.
Thank you to all who came out to celebrate the launch of the past 2 Tower Poetry Publications. It was a small yet mighty crowd. Thank you to the Tower members who read their contributions (Halyna Koba, Fran Figge, Nicola Schneider, Rebecca Clifford, Jennifer Tan, Trudi Down, G.W. Down, Susan Popawich, Ed Woods, Deitrich Manfred), as well as those who came out to support (Judy Marsales, Marilyn close & Sandra S.). Shout out to @manfreddietrich who forced the largest crew out to support poets & poetry! Another shout out to Dave Rosborough, a TPS contributor who is not yet a member but was a very good sport about the whole opera thing
Thank you to the Fool and Flagon for allowing us the use of the room & Long & McQuade for the very reasonably price sound system rental.
Here’s some pictures of the event:
- April 5 & 26, 2025 — Tower Poets read at AGH, 1-4 pm. Tower poets were onsite to read the poetry that the art inspired. A booklet of the poems was available for the month of April. You can read the poems at the same time you view the artwork that inspired them. Note, the Reading Event was free, as the permanent collection (2nd floor) is always free access (no admission).
“Poetry in Motion” Books Launch — Saturday, September 28 from 1 pm – 4 pm at the Staircase
Click on image to view it more clearly.
Come celebrate Poetry Month with Tower Poetry Society in this fun “found” interactive poetry workshop for everyone – from emerging poets to those who are published to absolute beginners, or anyone in between, we invite you!
- HPL – Westdale Branch (Program Room) — Saturday, April 06, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Register, today:)
- HPL – Ancaster Branch (Murray Ferguson Room) — Thursday, April 11, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Register, today:)
This workshop will feature “Found Poetry” and we will provide the sources from which we will create our poems from. However, you are free to bring your own inspiration.
Sunday, November 6th… 2-4 p.m. – POETRY READING at Carnegie Gallery, 10 King St. W., Dundas
Tower poets met in the Gallery’s lower level meeting room as they presented selections of their own poems for the audience’s listening pleasure. Note: This event immediately followed the Artwalk guided tour. Many folks choose to attend one, or the other, or both! It’s warm and cozy inside the Carnegie Gallery!
November 1-6: Annual ART WALK (part of Arts Dundas weekend) — Stroll along King St. W. in downtown Dundas at your leisure to view storefront displays of 19 poems created by members of the Tower Poetry Society, alongside the artworks by Carnegie Gallery member artists which inspired them. You might be inclined to get a head start on your festive shopping!
See here for past Artwalk selections!
Sunday, November 27, 2022 — 4 – 6 pm — Gasworks, 141 Park St N, Hamilton, ON Tower Poetry hosted a book launch and poetry reading in collaboration with McMaster Poetry & Creative Writing Society.
TPS Celebrated 70 Successful Years in 2021
In 2021, The Tower Poetry Society has celebrated 70 years of promoting poetry through workshops and the publication, Tower Poetry.
A special 1-hour anniversary event was held online on Saturday, April 24, hosted by the Hamilton Public Library. At this time, the Society extends grateful thanks to many in the Hamilton community who sent messages of greetings and congratulations.
Anniversary Committee Chairperson Gaiyle Connolly was interviewed on ArtWaves on Sunday, May 23, about the TPS Anniversary year. The archived program can be downloaded anytime from: click here.
Poetry & Art Collaboration
“PoARTry: a Dance of Poetry and Art” was featured in the Carnegie Gallery’s Barber Atrium from mid-June through July 4, 2021. This collaborative exhibit between Tower poets and Carnegie artists celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Tower Poetry Society. View exhibit: click here.
Regina Haggo’s Hamilton Spectator column of May 29, 2021 includes interviews with some of the visual artists featured in the exhibit: click here.
November 21, 2021: Launch of Tower Milestones
In honour of the 70th Anniversary of the TPS, we have launched Tower Milestones – the new history book of the Tower Poetry Society. Written by TPS member and past archivist Roy Adams, the book highlights important dates and events of the Society’s past seven decades. The event also featured readings by TPS members from the last four issues of Tower Poetry which were published during the COVID-19 pandemic: Vol. 68 #2, Vol. 69 #1 & #2, and Vol. 70 #1.