There is no better butterfly net to capture life experience than poetry. And last Sunday’s featured poets were a testament to this. This coming Sunday it’s another debut, but it’s also a family affair. Come out and enjoy three incredibly accomplished writers.
Featured Poets: Frances Boyle (Debut!), and Bren Simmers and d.n. simmers
Host: James Felton
Frances Boyle
Frances Boyle is the author of Light-carved Passages (BushchekBooks, 2014) and a chapbook, Portal Stones (Tree Press, 2014).
Her poetry and short stories appear in The New Quarterly, Vallum, Arc, Prairie Fire, CV2, Fiddlehead, Room, Freefall , CV2, Ottawater, Truck, Moonset and other literary magazines, as well as in anthologies on form poetry, Hitchcock, love poetry, and daughters remembering their mothers.
Prizes she’s received include This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt, the Tree Reading Series chapbook contest and the Diana Brebner Prize. She is a member of Arc Poetry Magazine’s editorial board.
Bren Simmers
Bren Simmers is the author of two books of poetry, Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions, 2015) and Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010). She is the winner of an Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Award and was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize.
Hastings-Sunrise was nominated for the 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award.
Bren currently lives in Squamish, BC.
d.n. simmers
d.n. simmers is a special editor with Fine Lines. You can find him in current issues
of Poetry Salzburg Review and The Common Ground Review. He appears in
six current anthologies and was in the international anthology, Van Gogh’s
Ear.
He is online in Your One Phone Call ( Wales) and Wilderness House
Literary Review (long poems). He is in upcoming issues of Nerve Cowboy,
Tears in the Fence (a U.K. lit mag) and Red Savina Review. d.n. is an active member of the Thursday Writers Studio and a graduate of the Writers Studio with a two year creative writing certificate.
