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Westminster Bookmark's annual poetry event, Local Lines, returns to Gallery 78 (796 Queen St.) on Thursday, April 24th at 7pm.This year's event features three local poets reading from new spring collections: Rebecca Salazar (antibody), Ian LeTourneau (Metadata from a Changing Climate) and Nick Thran (Existing Music), as well as an open mic! The evening will be hosted by Fredericton's current Poet Laureate (and this year's Westminster Bookmark ambassador), Fawn Parker.
The event is free and open to the public. Books by the three featured readers will be for sale and the authors will be available for signing.
If you would like to read a poem during the open mic, please email [email protected] with the subject line "Local Lines Open Mic" and include your full name in the email.
We hope you will be able to join us!
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REBECCA SALAZAR (she/they) is a queer, disabled, and racialized Latinx writer currently living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Their first full-length collection sulphurtongue (McClelland & Stewart) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award. antibody is their second poetry collection.
"Rebecca Salazar’s antibody is a future classic of feminist verse. This book is so many things at once and powerfully so: ode, elegy, lamentation, manifesto, rallying call, theoretical treatise. I envision this book not so much arriving to the scene of Canadian poetry as remaking it completely." --Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of Coexistence
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IAN LETOURNEAU is the author of Terminal Moraine (Thistledown Press, 2008) and Metadata from a Changing Climate (Gaspereau Press, 2025), as well as two chapbooks, Defining Range (Gaspereau Press, 2006) and Core Sample (Frog Hollow Press, 2017). From 2016-2018, he was the City of Fredericton’s Cultural Laureate, and he was part of the founding committees of the New Brunswick Book Awards and Word Feast Literary Festival. By day he is the Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and Studies in Canadian Literature, and by night he is publisher of Emergency Flash Mob Press. He lives in Fredericton, NB.
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NICK THRAN's books include the mixed-genre collection If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display (2023) and three previous collections of poems. Earworm (2011) won the 2012 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. His poems have been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry. Thran lives on unceded Wolastoqey territory (Fredericton, NB), where he works as an editor and bookseller.
“Whether quick on the pivot or ‘slightly less slow than adagio slow,’ Nick Thran’s subtle, meditative poetry combines the moves of an acute point guard with those of a thoughtful flaneur browsing coffee shops and helping to run bookstores. Each poem in Existing Music works its own charm, finding its own apt ‘marriage between dance and speech,’ at once homegrown and riveting.”-Don McKay
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
796 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1C6, Canada
