Poets Corner Reading Series

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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

 

 

This week’s One Minute Poem! Grace Lau reads “The Thing with Asian Women Drumming”

In this week’s One Minute Poem,Grace Lau reads “The Thing with Asian Women Drumming” from The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (Guernica Editions, 2021).

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

By kind permission of the poet and Guernica Editions.

Grace (she/her) is a Hong-Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian writer living in Toronto. Her debut poetry collection, The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak, is forthcoming in May 2021 from Guernica Editions. Her work has been published in Grain Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Frontier Poetry, Arc Poetry, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter at @thrillandgrace

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