EVENTS

The inaugural PJ reading at our new venue, ORIGINAL’S Restaurante Mexicano, went very well. With 20 in attendance, the mic levels were a bit low but the interest was high.

This coming Sunday brings THREE Featured Poets, so come on out and support them!

Featured Poets:  Aidan Chafe, Ruth Hill and Deborah Kelly

Host:                     James Felton

Aidan Chafe

Aidan Chafe is a poet and public educator currently living in New Westminster. His poetry has appeared in CV2 magazine. When enough journals are convinced his word constructions are worthy of publication, he’ll bring out his first  book. In the meantime, he’s working like a dog on his craft.

Ruth Hill

Ruth Hill was born and educated in upstate NewYork, and has travelled North America extensively. She is a Certified Design Engineer, lifelong dedicated tutor, and enjoys spoken word. She has won 1st prizes in Gulf Coast Ethnic & Jazz Poetry, Heart Poetry, Lucidity, Poets for Human Rights and Writers Rising Up! Ruth put off writing until age 60. Since then, over 250 of her poems have won awards or publication in the US, Canada, the UK and Israel. Ruth now lives in Chetwynd, BC, and welcomes email at this address.

Deborah Kelly

Deborah Kelly has had her works published in numerous anthologies, books, and literary magazines in Canada, the USA and in India. She currently hosts and features at Poetic Justice in New Westminster. Deborah has also been a featured presenter at Poetry in the Park, Holy Wow Poets, Surrey Muse, World Poetry and Edge of the Page Poetry. She has also appeared on three occasions on World Poetry Co-Op Radio. Deborah’s debut poetry collection, Through My Eyes, was published in 2015 by Silver Bow Publishing. She also placed an impressive fourth at the Rabindranath Tagore Awards in 2015. Deborah believes in giving back. For two years she volunteered as a Director with New Westminster’s Royal City Literary Arts Society, and today continues with them as a Board Assistant.

Well, it was a beautiful but bittersweet send-off in the Back Room at the Heritage Grill on Sunday.  Poetic Justice has to move on to new pastures.  So why not join us at our brand new venue, starting this coming Sunday?

Next up at the microphone are two more fine poets.  Come out and support them while enjoying our usual Open Mic session.

Featured Poets:  Candice James and Kyle Hawke

Host:                     Alan Girling

Kyle Hawke

When KYLE HAWKE was five years old visiting India for the first time, his grandfather’s circle of activist and theologian friends told him he should be a writer. That became the one expectation of him he hasn’t yet rebelled against. Refusing to be bound by the limitations of form, he has since written poetry, prose, radio drama, comics, articles, editorials, advice columns, and even ghost-written non-fiction. Of late, he has been working at screenwriting and shopping an animated series pilot. Kyle founded the Bohemian Caress interdisciplinary series, which features spoken word with improvised music and live painting concurrently.

Candice James

CANDICE JAMES is New Westminster’s Poet Laureate, serving her second three-year term.
Her first publication was A Split in the Water (Fiddlehead: 1979) and her most recent is Merging Dimensions (Ekstasis Editions: 2015). She is Founder, Treasurer and Past President of Royal City Literary Arts Society; Past President of the Federation of BC Writers; Founder of Poetry In the Park, and Co-founder of Poetic Justice. She is the recipient of the Bernie Legge Artist/Cultural Award 2015 and the recipient of Pandora’s Collective 2015 Citizenship Award. Candice is also a visual artist and a singer/songwriter/musician. Further info can be found on Wikipedia.