Page Fright: A Poetry Reading & Celebration with Host Andrew French & Guest
Schedule
Fri Sep 20 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
23 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6A 1S9 | Vancouver, BC
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Join Massy Arts, Estlin McPhee, Kyle McKillop, Jane Shi, Rob Taylor and host Andrew French for Page Fright: A Poetry Reading and Celebration Sept 2oth from 6-8pm.Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver. We are located in the former MING WO building.
Registration is free or by donation and required for entry. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/page-fright-a-poetry-reading-celebration-with-host-andrew-french-guest-tickets-998786576537?aff=oddtdtcreator
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.
Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
About the Host
Andrew French is a poet who has previously published two chapbooks: Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021) and Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020). Andrew has been chatting with their favourite poets as the host of Page Fright: a Literary Podcast since 2019. They live and write on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in North Vancouver.
About the Authors
Estlin McPhee is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Estlin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is the author of the poetry chapbook Shapeshifters (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018). Their writing has appeared in journals across North America; for many years, they co-organized REVERB, a queer reading series in Vancouver. Estlin’s debut poetry collection In Your Nature is forthcoming in spring 2025 with Brick Books.
Kyle McKillop is a poet and teacher who completed his MFA in creative writing at UBC. His poems have appeared in CV2, tuesday poem, English Practice, the Sustenance anthology of BC food writing, and a couple of chapbooks, among others. He is a past president of the BC Teachers of English Language Arts, the Surrey English Teachers’ Association, and the Royal City Literary Arts Society, and he lives on the traditional and unceded territory of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Stó:lō, and other Coast Salish nations.
Jane Shi lives on the occupied and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəýəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Project blog, Briarpatch Magazine, and The Offing, among others. She is the winner of The Capilano Review‘s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest and author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022). Her debut poetry collection echolalia echolalia forthcoming October 1st, 2024 with Brick Books. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.
Rob Taylor is the author of five poetry collections, including Strangers and The News, which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His new collection, Weather, was published in May from Gaspereau Press. Rob is also the editor of What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation and Best Canadian Poetry 2019. He teaches creative writing at the University of the Fraser Valley, and lives with his family in Port Moody, BC, on the unceded territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
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Where is it happening?
23 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6A 1S9Event Location & Nearby Stays:
