Tag: poetry
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Summer Sounds and Sonics in Poetic Form, July 22, 2025
Meet the Poetry Ambassadors! City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner hosts a night of poems with poetry ambassadors Johnny Trinh, Kevin Spenst, and Marc Perez. These four poets with distinct craft practices invite you to consider the role of sounds and sonics within the framework of the poem. Vocalizations, modulations, polyphony, multilingualism, repetition, call…
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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…
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Here, Hearing Residencies: Apply by May 15, 2025
The Here, Hearing Residencies are open for both POET and HOST applications until May 15, 2025! Five Citizen Poets will be matched with five Host Sites for self-directed writing residencies in Vancouver. These residencies aim to make poetry visible by creating a dedicated time and space for thinking, dreaming, writing. Please visit here to apply.
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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…