Poets Corner Reading Series

Next Poetry Reading – April 17 in Vancouver. 

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Poetry Reading: andrea bennett and Kevin Spenst

April 17, 7:30 pm PST

Fairleigh Dickinson University

842 Cambie Street

Vancouver

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andrea bennett is a National Magazine Award–winning writer and senior editor at The Tyee who lives in the Ayjoo mixw area of what is currently known as Powell River, B.C. Their previous book, Like a Boy but Not a Boy: Navigating Life, Mental Health, and Parenthood Outside the Gender Binary (Arsenal Pulp Press), was a CBC Books’ pick for the top Canadian nonfiction of the year. Their most recent book is the berry takes the shape of the bloom (Talonbooks).

Kevin Spenst is the author of sixteen chapbooks and three full-length books of poetry plus the upcoming A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press, 2024). He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series, has a chapbook review column for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory where he cohabitates with the one and only Cheryl Rossi.

Open Mic Poetry Reading

As always, we encourage attendees to bring a poem to share at our open mic.

Tickets

This is a pay-what-you-can event. If you are able to make a donation, send by e-transfer to poetscornerreadingseries [at] gmail.com

Money will be used to pay poets for appearing at upcoming poetry readings in 2024.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Writer’s Union of Canada, and the League of Canadian Poets.

     

 

I do not think poetry is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter,
health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
~ Adrienne Rich, What is Found There

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