Poets Corner Reading Series

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This week’s One Minute Poem! Scott Ramsay reads “In the Event of a Summertime Death”

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Scott Ramsay presents the short film based on his poem, “In the Event of a Summertime Death.”

You can find Scott’s excerpt on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.
The full version of Scott’s film can be found here, on Scott’s YouTube channel.

By kind permission of the poet.

Scott Ramsay creates poems and multi-media street art, teaches high school creative writing, film studies and video production, and writes the intros to the Poets Corner newsletters. He’s been long-listed or a finalist for Prism’s Poem of the Year, ARC’s poem of the year, Quill’s poem of the year, and twice for the CBC’s Literary Award for Poetry. He was published most recently in Swamp Lantern Books leather handbound collection, Your Death Full of Flowers, released in Spain. He loves participating in spaces for people to inspire or be inspired

This Week’s One Minute Poem: Excerpt from Kim Trainor’s “Tardigrade”

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Kim Trainor presents an excerpt from her poetry film “Tardigrade” (2021).

Soundtrack by musician Hazel Fairbairn. You can find Kim’s excerpt on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.

By kind permission of the poet.Kim Trainor is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller who worked in logging camps around Port Alberni in the 1930’s. Her book-length poem, Ledi (Book*hug, 2018), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. Bluegrass will appear with Icehouse in 2022. Her poetry films, created with musician Hazel Fairbairn, screened at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in 2020 and will appear at the 9th International Film Festival in Athens in 2021. Ledi will also be performed live as part of the “Assemble” exhibit at the New Media Gallery in New Westminster in the fall of 2021. Recent poems have appeared in Otoliths, Fire Season, Ecocene, Anthropocenes, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Kim teaches in the English Department at Douglas College, where she chairs the faculty association’s Climate Emergency Action Committee. She lives in Vancouver, unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

 

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