PAST READINGS
THE ON EDGE READING SERIES: EMILY CARR
Reading with Caroline Adderson at Emily Carr, February 23 2017 | WEBSITE
POST VALENTINE’S DAY: THE DOMINION READING SERIES
February 15 2017 | DETAILS
3RD ANNUAL POETRY CRAWL
My fifty-venue reading tour begins with eleven readings with twenty poets across Vancouver in one day on April 16, 2016. I’ll kick off each reading with one poem and introduce you to some of Vancouver’s most tender and tenacious talents!
Jordan Abel, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Ray Hsu, Matea Kulic, Timothy Shay, Elena Johnson, Bren Simmers, Jeff Steudel, Jennifer Zilm, Geoffrey Nilson, Shannon Rayne, Leah Horlick, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Cecily Nicholson, Mariner Janes, Jónína Kirton, Joanne Arnott, Ben Rawluk, Margret Bollerup, Raoul Fernandes
OFFICIAL LAUNCH FOR IGNITE
April 20, 2016 at the Heatley with Elee Kraljii Gardiner who will be launching Serpentine Loop, her first book with Anvil Press. Rumour has it they might be mixing special drinks for that evening revolving around the themes of fire and ice.
October 22, 2015
People’s Co-op Bookstore with Jeff Steudel and Rodney Decroo (Vancouver, BC)
November 4, 2015
With Heidi Greco, Olive Caldwell Lee and Rose Seiler Scott at Guildford Public Library (Surrey, BC)
November 6, 2015
With Jeff Steudel at Left Bank Books Collective (Seattle, Washington)
November 7, 2015
Wordstock Lit-Crawl (Portland, Oregon)
August 19, 2015
Renaissance Books (New Westminster, BC)
August 26, 2015
Lonsdale Quay Market (North Vancouver, BC)
September 3, 2015
Saltspring Island Library (Saltspring Island, BC)
September 17, 2015
Lucky’s Comics with Owen Plummer (Vancouver, BC)
September 19, 2015
Free Range Poetry on the Spot with Renee Saklikar at Trout Lake Farmer’s Market (Vancouver, BC)
September 21, 2015
Pulp Fiction with Elizabeth Ross and Elena Johnson (Main Street location Vancouver, BC)
September 27, 2015
Word Vancouver (I’ll be reading, giving a workshop and then sitting behind a table making chapbooks the rest of the day with Raoul Fernandes)
June 17, 2015
Lunch Poem Reading Series Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre) with Louis Calbri
June 17, 2015
Hands Held in Poetry with Bonnie Nish and Jude Neal at the Cottage Bistro
April 25, 2015: VANCOUVER POETRY CRAWL 2015
Owen Plummer’s Place with Andrew McEwan, Equinox Gallery with Jennifer Zilm & Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Monte Clark Gallery with Jeremy Stewart from Prince George and Niki Koulouris from Toronto, Grunt gallery with Jordan Abel and Mariner Janes, Hot Art Wet City with Matea Kulic and Geoff Nilson, KOBOB BURGER with Ray Hsu, Vancouver Public Library – Central Branch with Raoul Fernandes and Elena Johnson, Or Gallery with Ben Rawluk and Leah Horlick, Satellite Gallery with Margaret Bollerup and Lucie Krajcova, Paper Hound Bookshop with Bren Simmers
APRIL 13, 2015
My fifty venue reading tour of the province begins today at Hogan’s Alley Cafe. The fun continues through the week and next week will bring the official launch at the Railway Club on Thursday April 23rd. For the full tour check out my map for Jabbering with BC.
MAY 15, 2014: POETRY CRAWL
Equinox Gallery with Jennifer Zilm and Taryn Hubbard, Monte Clark Gallery with Kevin Rowe and Matea Kuli, Winsor Gallery with Mariner Janes, Jordan Abel and Shannon Rayne, Grunt Gallery with Andrew McEwan, Vancouver Public Library with Ray Hsu, Andrea Bennett and Leanne Dunic, Carnegie Centre with Anne Hopkinson, Henry Doyle and James McLean, Or Bookstore with fictionaut and poet Ben Rawluk, Satellite Gallery with Margaret Bollerup, La Taqueria Pinche Taco Shop with Raoul Fernandes, Paper Hound Bookshop with Cecily Nicholson.
100-VENUE CHAPBOOK TOUR
If you want to know more about my 100-venue chapbook tour of the country, here’s a media mishmash of blogging (myself and others) and interviews from my tour across the country: my first day in Victoria, pop-up poetry on planes, Angeline Schellenberg’s blog about our day together in Winnipeg, in the news in Winnipeg, on CBC radio in Montreal, poetry bombing Ottawa, on the radio in Ottawa, on Books for Breakfast on the radio in Guelph, (click play on May 1).
Here’s some blogging by my friend Angeline Shellenberg about our day together (venues 30-36) in Winnipeg (with some great shots from her husband Anthony). Of course, the chapbook tour started in the warmth of Victoria and was followed by a chilly Calgary. (which I blogged about for Broken Pencil). I’m currently in Montreal about to read at Monastiraki! Stay tuned for more. (or check out the map below)
SMALL BOOKS BIG COUNTRY
In April and May of 2014, I will be crossing the country for a 100-venue reading tour through bookstores, libraries, coffee shops, art galleries, various reading series, one dentist’s waiting room, the University of Toronto and an alternative elementary school. I’ll be sharing work from a sequence of sonnets found in Pray Goodbye (the Alfred Gustav Press, 2013), the Surrey Sonnets (JackPine Press, 2014) more experimental work from retractable (serif of nottingham, 2013), some “vispo” in What the Frag Meant (100 tetes press, 2014), Snap (Pooka Press), poems from my self-published collection Happy Hollow and the Surrey Suite (2012) and small books that I’ll be making and writing over the course of the tour. (Yes, I can make a bona fide book in under one minute!)
Over the course of the tour I’ll be reading with Russell Thornton, Jan Conn, Juleta Severson-Baker, Micheline Maylor, Nikki Reimer, Jason Christie, Ariel Gordon, Angeline Schellenberg, Fionncara MacEoin, Annie Deeley, Brian Campbell, Pearl Pirie, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Michael e. Casteels, Gary Barwin, Amy Kenny, Benny Langedyk, Phoebe Wang, Shane Neilson, Madhur Anand, Amelia Meister, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Catherine Owen, Jillian Christmas, Jennifer Zilm, Taryn Hubbard, Kevin Rowe, Matea Kuli, Mariner Janes, Jordan Abel, Shannon Rayne, Anne Hopkins, Ray Hsu, Leanne Ogg, Andrea Bennett, Ben Rawluk, Margaret Bollerup and Cecily Nicholson (among others!)
Here’s my latest videopoem that’s on my Youtube Channel Small Books, Big Country:
POETIC JUSTICE
MARCH 3, 2014 with the lovely and talented Renee Saklikar and Taryn Hubbard in New Westminster, BC. More details at the Poetic Justice website.
Pandora’s Collective Presents
TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON at the Cottage Bistro
Sunday December 16th, 2013 with Features Fiona Lam + Raoul Fernandes and their special guests Evelyn Lau, Russell Thornton, Kevin Spenst, Jen Currin and Elee Kraljii Gardiner.