Planet Earth Poetry: The Malahat Review: National Poetry Month reading (Quadruple Bill!)
Schedule
Fri Apr 05 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
Russell Books | Victoria, BC
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Join us for Friday night poetry! Featured Poets:
Philip Kevin Paul is a member of the WSÁ,NEC Nation from the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island. His work has been published in BC Studies, Literary Review of Canada, Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets and An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. Paul has worked with the University of Victoria's linguistics department to ensure the preservation of the SENCOTEN language.
Warren Heiti is the author of Hydrologos (Pedlar Press, 2011), Attending (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), and Diaphora (forthcoming), and co-editor of Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015). He lives in Nanaimo on the land of the Snuneymuxw Nation, and teaches philosophy and literature at Vancouver Island
University.
John Barton’s collections and chapbooks of poetry include Hymn, For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin, Polari, and Lost Family (2021 Derek Walcott Prize nominee). His other books include We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos and The Essential Douglas LePan (2020 eLit Award winner). A past editor of The Malahat Review, he was Victoria’s fifth poet laureate.
Yvonne Blomer is a past poet laureate of Victoria, BC and the 2022-2023 Arc poetry magazines poet-in-residence. She creates and teaches poetry classes to a deeply engaged group of poets on Zoom and lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking people. Her sixth book of poetry, “Death of Persephone: A Murder” is forthcoming in the fall of 2024 and she is currently accepting poems on the theme of ice for a third water-based poetry anthology, details here: https://caitlinpress.com/Blog/Call-for-Submissions-ICE
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How to Attend:
Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30 and sign up for the open mic is between 7:00–7:20.
Our open mic rules are:
1. Poetry only
2. Maximum of one poem
3. Maximum of 3 minutes on the mic
If you wish to tune in via Zoom for the featured reader segment of the evening (approximately 8:00-9:00pm Pacific time), please use the following credentials:
Meeting ID: 494 660 4447
Passcode: 2129
You may also access this segment of the event via landline for audio only. Dial +1 778 907 2071.
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Where is it happening?
Russell Books, 734 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8W 1H2, Canada,Victoria, British ColumbiaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
