Readings & Events

Poetry Scramble

Multi-stop one-day poetry scramble with Kevin Spenst. Details forthcoming! Locations for Kevin’s 50 stop poetry tour are here.

serpentine loop launch

Launch of Kevin Spenst’s second book of poems, Ignite (Anvil Press) and my book serpentine loop. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Bathrooms are gender neutral and accessible.

Launch Party

Supporting the launch of Jennifer Manuel’s The Heaviness of Things That Float and Tricia Dower’s Becoming Lin.

Kevin Spenst’s 3rd Annual Poetry Crawl

Kevin has organized a blitz of readings in the downtown of Vancouver. Run from one to the next or drop in!

10:30 GRUNT GALLERY– JORDAN ABEL and Shazia Hafiz Ramji
11:15 WINSOR GALLERY –Ray Hsu and Matea Kulić
1:00 Hogan’s Alley – Timothy Shay and Elena Johnson
1:40 221 E Georgia St: “Vancouver Especially” – Bren Simmers and Jeff Steudel
2:10 EL KARTEL – Jennifer Zilm
2:30 Untitled Gallery – Geoffrey Nilson and Shannon Rayne
3:05 Gallery Gachet – Leah Horlik and Elee Kralji Gardiner
3:40 Artspeak – Cecily Nicholson and Mariner Janes

4:10 Skwachàys Lodge – Jónína Kirton and Joanne Arnott
4:40 OR GALLERY Ben Rawluk and Margret Bollerup
7:00 THE PAPER HOUND Kevin Spenst and Raoul Fernandes

Dagoretti Corner Launch

Reading at 5pm with Raoul Fernandes in celebration of the launch of Ngwatilo Mawiyoo’s Dagoretti Corner! A Callaloo Fellow from Nairobi, Kenya, Ngwatilo’s recent poems have been published or are forthcoming in “Kwani?”, “Obsidian”, and “One Throne Magazine”. Ngwatilo is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and was shortlisted for the 2015 and 2016 Brunel University African Poetry Prize. She is the author of two chapbooks, “Blue Mothertongue” and the forthcoming “Dagoretti Corner”. She received her MFA from the University of British Columbia. Special congratulations to Raoul who was just nominated for the Gerald Lampert award!

AWP Conference

AWP Conference attendance and book signing.

Book signing at the Anvil Press table
Friday April 1, 2016 at 3pm.

Guest on Wax Poetic

Listen to the archive here.

First Annual Writers Conference

First Annual Writers Conference

Launch of Rachel Rose’s Marry or Burn

Real Vancouver Writers’ Series, Launch of Rachel Rose’s Marry or Burn. I am thrilled about this because Raoul Fernandes (Transmitter and Receiver) and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Children of Air India) and I were all at The Writer’s Studio at SFU when Rachel Rose was the poetry mentor.

Reading at Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train is a monthly reading series, hosted by the Langara College English department, devoted to creating dialogue between writers and writing groups that would not typically interact with one another. Each event features writers from a variety of genres and backgrounds: from spoken word to highbrow prose – the up-and-coming, the student, and the venerable. The goal of the series is to encourage discussion and promote collaboration within Vancouver’s diverse literary community (or with members of other Canadian literary communities). All events are free to attend and are open to the public (19+).

Featuring readings by:
Jacqueline Turner – The Ends of the Earth; Seven into Even
Donato Mancini – Loitersack; Snowline
Shashi Bhat – The Family Took Shape
Elee Kraljii Gardiner – V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Karol Pasciano – Langara Student Writer
Tracy Lissner – Langara Student Writer

The Exiles’ Gallery book launch

I will join a group of Elise Partridge‘s friends in launching her third book, The Exiles’ Gallery. Elise passed away in January and her book, published by House of Anansi, is beautiful. I’ll be reading one of her poems with Aislinn Hunter, Miranda Pearson, Rob Taylor, Caroline Adderson and others.

Verses Festival

With Thursdays Writing Collective at Verses Festival at Havana Gallery on Commercial Drive, Vancouver. We read selections from Voice to Voice, our (forthcoming) seventh anthology!