Poets Corner Reading Series

EVENTS

UPCOMING READINGS, FEATURED POETS, and THEMED READINGS.

FINISHED!! Poetry Reading on Wednesday June 20 at 7:30 p.m.

2018-06-06 EVENTS, Uncategorized

What a blockbuster evening we had last month. With just over 50 in attendance, we had our biggest crowd yet at Massy Books, our fabulous new ‘home’. It was a special celebration for a special duo. Richard Olafson and Carol Ann Sokoloff were honoured as Ekstasis Editions turned 35 years old.

Photo of Richard Olafson and Carol Sokoloff receiving a framed tribute from some of the writers they have published over the years.

Ekstasis Editions’ Carol Ann Sokoloff and Richard Olafson were presented with a commemorative poster signed by all the Ekstasis writers who came to honour them. Doing the presenting are Franci Louann (left) and James Felton (right) of Poets Corner.

Tributes poured in from many who attended (including those who couldn’t make it) and short readings were offered up from even more. It proved to be a memorable evening and a deserving tribute.

This Month’s Poetry Reading

This month we are back to our regular format of two featured poets along with an Open Mic segment. Mark your calendars now, before you forget: it’s on Wednesday June 20, again at 7:30pm.

June’s First Featured Poet

Photograph of poet, Daniela ElzaDaniela Elza has lived on three continents and crossed numerous geographic, cultural and semantic borders. Her poetry collections are the weight of dew, the book of It, and milk tooth bane bone, of which David Abram says: “Out of the ache of the present moment, Daniela Elza has crafted something spare and irresistible, an open armature for wonder.” Daniela earned her doctorate in Philosophy of Education from Simon Fraser University. Her next book will be published the Spring of 2020 by Mother Tongue Publishing. She has two more manuscripts looking for homes amidst the growing housing crises and skyrocketing rents of Vancouver.

June’s Second Featured Poet

Photograph of poet, Jami Macarty

Jami Macarty is the author of Instinctive Acts, forthcoming from Nomados Literary Publishers in 2018, Mind of Spring, which won the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award (Vallum, 2017) and Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, 2017), a series of poems focusing on her nephew William’s car accident and year-long coma. She teaches contemporary poetry and creative writing at Simon Fraser University, edits the online poetry journal The Maynard, and writes Peerings & Hearings–Occasional Musings on Arts in the City of Glass, a blog series for Anomaly/Anomalous Press. She is the recipient of grants from Banff Center and B.C. Arts Council, among others; several times a Pushcart Prize nominee; and a finalist for the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award. Her poems have appeared in over 50 American and Canadian journals.

Remember, the Open Mic segment is back on at this reading, so if you want a chance to deliver one of your best poems, get there early. See you all at this month’s Poets Corner reading on Wednesday, June 20.  We’re underway at 7:30 p.m.

FINISHED! Next Poetic Justice Reading is Sun May 15 at 3:00 p.m.

2016-03-23 EVENTS

We couldn’t have squeezed many more in!

At the last PJ reading, only four seats were left wanting. Yes, it was rainy and gloomy outside but the room was buzzing. We had 11 very wide-ranging readers at Open Mic, followed by the always humorous, ever-engaging Jennifer Zilm, whose first collection, Waiting Room comes out in April. She was followed by yet another younger talent, Rob Taylor, who has been selected as the next Writer-in-Residence at the famed Al Purdy A-Frame cottage near Ameliasburgh in south-eastern Ontario.

In April, we will be bringing you yet another stellar duo…

Bitek, Juliane Okot ~ Head Shot

Juliane Okot Bitek

Juliane Okot Bitek will be joining us after overcoming jetlag on her travels through East Africa. She is a Vancouver poet who has also had short fiction, creative non-fiction and essays widely published online and in print. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia where her research is centred on identity, citizenship and forgetting. Her latest publication, 100 Days (U. of Alberta Press), is a collection of poetry that negotiates ways to remember the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Timothy Shay

Timothy Shay

 

 

Joining Juliane will be Timothy Shay who lives and writes in Vancouver, BC.  He has published poetry in many magazines including Fiddlehead, Qwerty, This Magazine, Quarry, Grain, CVII, anthologies, including Alive at the Centre, contemporary poems from the Pacific North West, on CBC Radio and Rolling Stone and in several chapbooks. His first collection, This Cabin as the SS Titanic (Solstice Books), was published in 1984 and his most recent collection, The Dirty Knees of Prayer was published just last month by Caitlin Press.

P.S.  Remember to come early if you want a seat!  In spite of the cold and rainy weather, things are really heating up at Poetic Justice.

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