EVENTS

Last Sunday, we brought you the debut of a Featured Poet.  This Sunday, we’re doing the same.  So come on out for the last Poetic Justice reading of 2015 and witness the inaugural reading from another of our Featured Poets.  Both these poets have been churning the cream to make buttered poetry the likes of which you’ve never heard before.

Featured Poets:  Annette LeBox (Debut!) and Cassandra Metcalfe

Host:                     Candice James, Poet Laureate of New Westminster

Annette LeBox

Annette LeBox is an award-winning poet with more than 45 poems published internationally in literary journals such as Event, Poetry Canada, Prairie Fire and the Southern Review. She is the author of five picture books, including Peace is an Offering by Penguin, 2015 and Salmon Creek, winner of the BC Book Prize. Her YA novels, Miracle at Willowcreek and Circle of Cranes were also shortlisted for awards. Annette earned an MFA in Creative Writing at UBC and recently completed SFU’s The Writer’s Studio. She divides her time between her home in Maple Ridge and a remote cabin in the Cariboo.

Cassandra Metcalfe

Cassandra Metcalfe is an all-around creative in the current publishing world. A sometime poet, sometime marketing manager, and occasional book reviewer, she is currently Poetic Justice’s resident tech and re-branding consultant. Her favourite poets (for the moment, at least) are Derek Walcott, T.S. Eliot, H.D., and Nicole Brossard.

Last Sunday, on a wet, windy, grey afternoon, the weather was cold but not the spoken word. An intimate group enjoyed a trio of readers at our second PJ reading at our new venue, ORIGINAL’S Restaurante Mexicano.

This coming Sunday showcases our PJ Co-Founder reading with what will be a debut performance, so come on out and support them!

Featured Poets:  Franci Louann and Brandon Pitts (Debut!)

Host:                     Renée Saklikar

Franci Louann

Co-founder and Co-Manager of Poetic Justice, Franci Louann’s published poetry has spanned over four decades. First anthologized in Dorothy Livesay’s iconic Woman’s Eye: 12 B.C. Poets (Air: 1974), her most recent e-publication is Wild Horses (Purple Poppy Press: 2015). She is the recipient of poetry prizes from Pandora’s Collective, the Burnaby Writers’ Society and the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. An accomplished poet, Franci has also been honoured for her volunteer work by several writing groups and is thrilled to be reading at Poetic Justice’s new venue.

Brandon Pitts

Seattle area-based Canadian poet Brandon Pitts is the author of the poetry collection, Tender in the Age of Fury (Mosaic Press. 2015). Pitts first came onto the Toronto lit scene in 2010 with the short story, “The BC Crib,” published in the anthology, Canadian Voices Volume II and the “Son In Law” in the anthology, TOK 7 – Reading the New Toronto. In 2011, he was inducted into the prestigious Diaspora Dialogues as an “Emerging Voice” for fiction. He followed this with his novel Puzzle of Murders (Bookland Press, 2011) and then a poetry collection Pressure to Sing (IOWI, 2012) and the production of three plays.