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  • Jane’s (Poetry) Walk in the West End, May 4, 2025 with Poetry Ambassador Kevin Spenst 

    Jane’s (Poetry) Walk in the West End, May 4, 2025 with Poetry Ambassador Kevin Spenst 

                                    Listening to the Songs of Displacement Poets take us elsewhere. In this sense, they transport us. They sing a sort of displacement in verses rooted in the everyday moments that poetry helps us experience in radically different ways.  With Vancouver’s history of people being displaced due to colonialism and racism and with real estate…

  • Poetry in the Park, July 2, 2025

    Poetry in the Park, July 2, 2025

    Royal City Literary Arts Society presents  Poetry in the Park 2025 Opening NightWednesday July 2, 6:30 pm – 8:30pmQueen’s Park Bandshell, New WestminsterFeature Poets Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Kevin SpenstWith Host Jonina Kirton Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and…