Poets Corner Reading Series

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This week’s One Minute Poem! Leah Horlick reads “Typhus”

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Leah Horlick reads “Typhus” from Moldovan Hotel (Brick Books, 2021).

You can find Leah’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.

By kind permission of the poet and Brick Books.

Leah Horlick grew up as a settler on Treaty Six Cree Territory & the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon. Her first collection, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for a ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her second collection, For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a Stonewall Honor Title by the American Library Association. She is a past winner of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize, ARC Poetry Magazine’s “Poem of the Year”, and was shortlisted for the 44th Pushcart Prize. She lives on Treaty Seven Territory & Region 3 of the Métis Nation in Calgary. http://www.leahhorlick.com/

 

This week’s One Minute Poem! Linda Crosfield reads “What’s Best for Us”

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Linda Crosfield reads “What’s Best for Us” from the chapbook What’s Best for Us (Nose in Book Publishing, 2021).

You can find Linda’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.

By kind permission of the poet and Nose in Book Publishing.

Linda Crosfield’s work appears in several literary magazines including The Antigonish ReviewRoom, The Minnesota Review, The New Orphic Review, and Event, and in anthologies including Our Days in Vaudeville, Refugium, and Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology. Through her micro-press, Nose in Book Publishing, she’s published chapbooks by Canadian poets, including Stuart Ross, George Bowering, Yvonne Blomer, and Daniel G. Scott. She’s been short-listed for Room Magazine’s annual poetry contest, and through Poetry-in-Transit, one of her poems traveled around the lower mainland on buses and Skytrain. She lives in Ootischenia, B.C., at the confluence of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, on the traditional lands of the Sinixt, Syilx and Ktunaxa Nations. http://www.lindacrosfield.com

 

 

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