You Make Me Dream of Spring: An Earth Day Poetry Celebration

Name: You Make Me Dream of Spring: An Earth Day Poetry Celebration
Start: 2025-04-22T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-22T20:30:00-06:00
Location: Venue B Coffee Lounge & Events

Schedule

Tue Apr 22 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Venue B Coffee Lounge & Events | Regina, SK

Who else is ready for spring? On April 22, Saskatchewan poets Yolanda Hansen, Barbara Klar, Tracy Hamon, Tea Gerbeza and Cat Abenstein will share their poetry to mark Earth Day and the conclusion of Yolanda’s mentorship with Barbara. Join us for the celebration!
Hosted at Venue B Coffee Lounge, 110 – 2300 Dewdney Avenue, Regina, SK.
Snacks and drinks available for purchase. Parking on-street or in the lot west of the building.

ABOUT THE POETS:
CAT ABENSTEIN (she/her) is a nueroqueer white settler creating in oskana kâ-asastêki in Treaty 4 (Regina, SK.) A practicing spoken word artist, poet, and arts administrator, she is witness to the connection, community, and identity found through stories. Since 2012, Cat has taken her work to local, provincial, and national stages and has organized, hosted, and facilitated dozens of spoken word events for many organizations. When she’s not consuming books in all formats (yes, audiobooks are reading), she’s dreaming about the ways words weave us all together. She lives with her wife and two cats in a house older than all of their ages combined.
TEA GERBEZA (she/her) is the author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025). She is a neuroqueer disabled writer and multimedia artist. Most recently, her poem “Body of the Day” was a People’s Choice Award finalist in Contemporary Verse 2’s 2024 2-Day Poem Contest. Tea is the winner of the Ex-Puritan’s 2022 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for poetry. She lives with her spouse, three dogs, and cat. Find out more on teagerbeza.com.
TRACY HAMON was born in Regina and currently resides there. She is the author of three books of poetry, This is Not Eden (Thistledown Press), Interruptions in Glass (Coteau Books), Red Curls (Thistledown Press). She has been a finalist for various Saskatchewan Books Awards and won the Regina Book Award in 2015. She won the City of Regina Writing Award in 2005, was longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, and has received honourable mentions in various contests. Her work has been featured in literary magazines, anthologies, on CBC radio, and in touring art collaboration with the Fibre Art Network Tour. She is currently still tweaking a fourth manuscript of poems.
YOLANDA HANSEN lives and writes in Treaty 4, where she works with the writing community. She has an MA from the University of Regina and her work has been published in Briarpatch Magazine, Deep Wild Journal, MANTIS and is forthcoming in two poetry anthologies. She reads voraciously, eats local and likes to wander outside. She recently completed a mentorship with Barbara Klar, supported by SK Arts. She lives with her husband, two busy sons and two adorable rescue cats in Regina.
BARBARA KLAR lives and writes in rural southwest Saskatchewan. She has been publishing her poetry about the natural world for nearly forty years. Her work has won numerous provincial and national awards including the Gerald Lampert Award, the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts, the John V. Hicks Award, and the Joseph Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her most recent collection, Cypress, was nominated for the ReLit Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year. She has been a mentor to many emerging poets including, most recently, Yolanda Hansen.
Please note: this event on FB was created on behalf of Yolanda Hansen by Tea. If you have any questions about the event, Tea will forward them along to Yolanda or please contact Yolanda directly at [email protected] (please also note, this event is NOT affiliated with the SWG in any way, despite many of us being employed there).