Readings & Events

Poetry in the Park

I will be a featured reader at this outdoors series with Sylvia Simons. 6:30 p.m.-8:30pm in Queen’s Park, New Westminster, BC. Bring a chair or blanket!

Artsong Lab

I’m a guest artist at this year’s Artsong Lab program in Vancouver and am leading workshops and drop-in sessions for the poets and composers.

Growing Room Festival

Hosting the panel on memoir, From Head to Heart, with Bev Sellars, Ijeoma Oluo, Chelene Knight, Leanne Dunic, Betsy Warland

The On Edge Reading Series

Emily Carr University of Art and Design, The On Edge Reading Series features Rajinderpal S. Pal and Elee Kraljii Gardiner in the Ron Burnett Library + Learning Commons.

I’ll be reading with Rajinderpal S. Pal, the author of two books of poetry: pappaji wrote poetry in a language i cannot read (TSAR, 1998), winner of the Alberta Book Awards Best First Book, and pulse (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002), shortlisted for the WO Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize and the Alberta Book Awards for Poetry. He has been published in many anthologies including Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (Norton, 2008). He has performed his poetry across Canada at events including The Scream in High Park (1999), and WordFest (1998). Rajinderpal was born in India, grew up in London, England and has called Canada home since 1980. He has collaborated with musicians and videographers to create multi-disciplinary presentations of his work. He is currently working on a new manuscript.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Everyone is welcome!

Elliott Bay Bookstore

I will be opening with work from serpentine loop for Rachel Rose who is reading from her memoir The Dog Lover Unit.

Launch of Daphne Marlatt’s Intertidal

Launch of Daphne Marlatt’s Intertidal, new and selected, from TalonBooks

I’ll be reading a poem of Daphne’s to celebrate her collected works, with Rita Wong, Colin Browne, Catriona Strang, Roy Miki, Fred Wah and editor Susan Holbrook.

Trauma Head: Reading the Medical File

The exhibit of The Beautiful Brain, the drawing of Santiago Ramón y Cajal  (d.1934) will be closing Dec 5 but before it does I will be reading from the chapbook “Trauma Head” with poet Ali Blythe.

Chicken Session

A reading-and-music session held in a private home, hosted by Pam Bentley.

Vancouver International Writer’s Fest

Launch of Sustenance: a Feast of Voices.

Reading with Rachel Rose, Thomas Haas, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Jami Macarty, Billeh Nickerson, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Annie Ross, Karen Shklanka, Kevin Spenst, Russell Thornton, Ayelet Tsabari

The Writer’s Studio at SFU

I will be speaking to Betsy Warland’s memoir class with Gurjinder Basran and Jennifer Zilm.

WORD Vancouver

Poet Kevin Spenst invited me to share his chapbook table at WORD Vancouver. I will be there with Trauma Head! And visiting the Thursdays Writing Collective table, too.

Poetic Pairings, part of WORD Festival

Poets present collaborations. Host: Mary Duffy. Poetic Pairs: Jónína Kirton and Sho Wiley, Elee Kraljii Gardiner and RC Weslowski, Bonnie Nish and Angela Rebrec, Cynthia Sharp and Timothy Shay, Chelsea Comeau and Lara Varesi