Poets Corner Reading Series

EVENTS

UPCOMING READINGS, FEATURED POETS, and THEMED READINGS.

Our Next Reading is Wednesday 20 January @730pm!!

2021-01-02 EVENTS

Please join us this Wednesday 20 January at 730pm Pacific (via Zoom) for our first reading of the New Year, 2021 !!

 

This month we have an extended open mic to celebrate our brilliant open mic’ers — there is still space to add your name to our growing list 🙂 and we will also feature Daniel Scott, editor of the anthology Voicing Suicide, joined by contributors from the collection, including our own regular participant and founder Franci Louann.  Also reading: Angela Rebrec, Lzz Johnk, Brian Brett, Pat Smekal, Barbara Herringer, and Leanne McIntosh. To register for the event, please click on this poster or on the Zoom link below. See you on the 20th!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOCqrT8jHNGalmWaXCm6GOTMFgoN3uTW

 

See you in the New Year!! (#YouCan’tQuarantinePoetry)

2020-12-06 EVENTS , , , ,

stella(r) the rooster, dec. 2020. photo by kim trainor

We’ve had a crazy year but feel happy we managed to keep Poets Corner running for our poetry-mad community. Despite the global pandemic, an extended lockdown, and Spring shortages of eggs, dried pasta, and hand sanitizer, we had no shortage of poets! This year we brushed up our Zoom skills and hosted a brilliant line-up: Francis Doyle, Francine Cunningham, Joanne Lilley, Kevin Spenst, Joseph Dandurand, Sonnet L’AbbĂ©, Yvonne Blomer, Jenna Butler, Tanis MacDonald, Sarah de Leeuw, M.C. Warrior, Tom Wayman, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Maureen Hynes, Allan Briesmaster, Kate Flaherty, Michael Prior, and BC Poets reading their work for a special COVID-19 anthology fundraiser launch, We Are One.

We also pioneered our One Minute Poem feature, and posted a grand total of 34 poets, one every Friday, on all of our social media channels and our newly minted YouTube channel. These are all poems read by the poets themselves, from recently published collections and chapbooks, and are the beginnings of an important archive of Canadian poetry.

So we’re taking a much-needed break over December. Gonna hang out with the chickens.

See you in the New Year!    (#YouCan’tQuarantinePoetry)

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