Poets Corner Reading Series

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November 16 poetry reading at Poets Corner featuring Stephen Collis and Garth Martens!

Please join us this Wednesday 16 November at 730pm for our November reading at Poets Corner, featuring Stephen Collis and Garth Martens! Join us in person at Fairleigh Dickinson University auditorium (842 Cambie Street), OR via Zoom if you register in advance: https://tinyurl.com/2jzxk6mx. OPEN MIC!!!!

 

Stephen Collis is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), Once in Blockadia (2016), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)—all published by Talonbooks. A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and in 2019, Collis was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.

 

Garth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi) and the chapbook Remediation (JackPine). For his poetry, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. In 2017, he co-founded Palabra Flamenco as its producer and principal poet. He also produces Dark Sounds, a flamenco series on death, grief, and the climate crisis, featuring poet Jan Zwicky, dancer Denise Yeo, and guitarist Gareth Owen. For Alma de España Flamenco Dance Company, he performed his poetry in Pasajes, an international production. His work appears in Poetry IrelandHazlittThis MagazineVallumFiddleheadGrainPrism, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is a contributing editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and a former member of The Malahat Review‘s editorial board. He lives in Victoria, BC.

New guidelines for signing up for our Open Mic!!

POETS CORNER OPEN MIC PROTOCOL (for Virtual Readings)

We love our open mic’ers, and to make sure that the sign-up process is open and transparent to all, we have developed a new protocol for all to follow.

If you would like to participate in the open mic at our monthly reading, please send your request to:

poetscorneropenmic@gmail.com

 

  • We will accept open mic requests beginning on the first of the month for that month’s reading, i.e. if you wish to be on the open mic list for the July reading, you can send in your request from the 1st July onwards.
  • In the subject field, please write OPEN MIC JULY (or whichever month you are signing up for).
  • In the body of the email, please write your full name + whether you have read for us before:
    e.g. Pat Lowther: First Time Reader” or “Langston Hughes: Return Reader”
  • You will receive acknowledgement of your request within 48 hours. (please be patient :))
    • e.g. Thanks for signing up; you are on our tentative list for open mic readers for July. We will confirm this the day before the reading and indicate your place on the list.
  • The list of open mic readers will be generated by date and time stamp, in order of receipt.
  • We will reserve 3 spots each month for new readers (that is, people who have never read before at Poets Corner). If any of these 3 spots have not been filled by new readers by the day before the reading, they will go to returning readers.
  • If we receive more than 10 readers, we will create a wait-list, again generated by date and time stamp.
  • The final open mic list, and the wait-list, will be emailed to everyone on both lists the day before the reading.

We can’t wait to hear your poems 🙂

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