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Join us for Friday night poetry! Featured Poets:
Born in southeastern Quebec, Jan Conn received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Toronto in 1987. She studies the evolution and ecology of mosquitoes that transmit pathogens at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, in Albany, New York. She has written nine books of poetry, most recently Peony Vertigo, Brick Books, 2023. These are poems emerging from deep memory and shifting landscapes to joyously engage flora, fauna, and self.
Kayla Czaga holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and currently serves as the online poetry mentor for Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio. Her debut collection, For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014) won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. It was also nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the BC Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Dunk Tank (House of Anansi, 2019), also a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, was described by David O’Meara as “sparkling with recollection’s rich details…exhilarating.” Her third collection, Midway, was published by House of Anansi in spring 2024. Czaga lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen People (Victoria, BC).
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How to Attend:
Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30 and sign up for the open mic is between 7:00–7:20.
Our open mic rules are:
1. Poetry only
2. Maximum of one poem
3. Maximum of 3 minutes on the mic
If you wish to tune in via Zoom for the featured reader segment of the evening (approximately 8:00-9:00pm Pacific time), please use the following credentials:
Meeting ID: 494 660 4447
Passcode: 2129
You may also access this segment of the event via landline for audio only. Dial +1 778 907 2071.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Russell Books, 734 Fort St, Victoria, BC V8W 1H2, Canada,Victoria, British Columbia
