Poets Corner Reading Series

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#CanadaPerforms

Poets launching their new collections this Spring can now apply for inclusion and financial support on the National Arts Centre #CanadaPerforms platform:

The National Arts Centre (NAC) is adding writers to their #CanadaPerforms initiative. Canadian authors who have had book tours and launch events cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic can apply to participate. #CanadaPerforms is designed to support artists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Artists, including actors, dancers, musicians and children’s entertainers, share their work online through livestreams on social media and are supported financially through a relief fund. The #CanadaPerforms series has already supported more than 100 artists, and their performances have generated more than 1.7 million views. “Since we launched #CanadaPerforms two weeks ago, we’ve received many proposals from authors, poets and writers who have seen their book events cancelled, and are looking at ways to connect with their readers,” said Heather Gibson, the executive producer of popular music and variety at NAC, in a statement. The addition of authors to #CanadaPerforms is possible thanks to a $100,000 donation by Facebook Canada. The expansion will kick off with Margaret Atwood in conversation with Adrienne Clarkson. —2nd April 2020, CBC

Upcoming livestream events are being announced at the National Arts Centre #CanadaPerforms site here.

Poets Corner Reading Series: Covid-19 Cancellations + a New YouTube Channel

Poets Corner Reading Series had to postpone our Wednesday 18 March reading. Nonetheless! Inspired by the folks at Dead Poets Reading Series (merci merci!) we have created a new YouTube channel to feature the poets we were not able to welcome last Wednesday to our final reading at Massy Books, which has so kindly hosted us over the past two years. As with all but essential stores, Massy Books is closed due to the Covid-19 crisis, but offers free delivery within Metro Vancouver. Please support our local bookstores, which support poetry! More details very soon on our exciting new venue in April’s newsletter.

 

On our new YouTube channel we bring you a poem from Maureen Hynes who was scheduled to read from her latest collection, Sotto Voce (Brick Books, 2019) and from Allan Briesmaster,  who was to read from The Long Bond: Selected and New Poems (Guernica Press, 2019). We also hope to post soon a short video of Fiona Tinwei Lam reading from her new collection, Odes & Laments (Caitlin Press, 2019). In the meantime, she has some of her animated poems available at her website.

Allan and Fiona are scheduled to read with us in October. We hope to arrange a time to have Maureen visit with us also in the not too distant and less contagious future.

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