EVENTS

Wow!  What a presentation!

If you weren’t there on Sunday Feb 21, you missed an absolutely stellar reading of Emily Dickinson’s work. But it was much more than that. Renée Bucciarelli was the very embodiment of the reclusive poet. She brought Dickinson alive.

Poetic Justice brings you both dead poets and live ones, too! On Sunday March 20, we are going to wow you again with two poets (who are very much alive) whose work is gaining a lot of attention.

Rob Taylor and Jennifer Zilm are going to be here in New Westminster to take over from Emily Dickinson.  We hope to see you on Sunday March 20!

Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor is the author of The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011) and one of the coordinators of Vancouver’s Dead Poets Reading Series. His poems have appeared most recently in The New Quarterly, Grain and Lemon Hound.

Born and raised in Port Moody, Rob now lives in Vancouver with his wife and son.

In 2015, he received the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for the Literary Arts (Emerging Artist). Canada’s Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke, said, “anyone who can write a good poem – as [Rob] Taylor does – about writing bad poetry, is a poet of talent.”

Jennifer Zilm

Jennifer Zilm writes poems that have appeared or are forthcoming in journals across Canada, including The Malahat Review, Prism, FreeFall, CV2, Prairie Fire, Grain, Arc, Vallum and the Antigonish Review. Her first chapbook, The Whole and Broken Yellows was published by Frog Hollow Press (2013).

She lives in East Vancouver, has a collection of Bibles, and works in libraries and social housing.

Her manuscript Waiting Room was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and will be published by BookThug in the Spring of 2016. A second collection will be published by Guernica Editions in 2018.

She’s alive!  Emily Dickinson’s alive!

Well, not really, but Renée Bucciarelli is going to be channeling Emily Dickinson later this month and you’ve just got to be there.

Renée Bucciarelli worked twenty years in New York theatre as a professional actor, teacher, and administrator before relocating to BC. Her acclaimed educational program, The Shakespeare Playground (for kids of all ages), has been hosted by Shakespeare festivals, schools, and arts centres in both Canada and the United States for nearly two decades (and returns to the Anvil Centre this spring). As artistic director of City Stage New West, she commissioned and produced the Ovation-award-nominated musical STUMP CITY STORIES, based on the diverse history of New Westminster, as well as its professional cast recording donated as a cultural legacy to our City (also available for purchase at Brick & Mortar Living). She has portrayed Emily Dickinson in the acclaimed one-woman show The Belle of Amherst at several Vancouver theatre venues.

This will be our first reading at our new home, New Westminster’s Boston Pizza. We are suggesting a $5 admission donation for this and all future Poetic Justice readings.

Your Host for this special event will be Poetic Justice’s Co-Manager, Franci Louann.