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Join us for Friday night poetry! Featured Poets:
Kevin Spenst is the author of four full-length books of poetry along with sixteen chapbooks including Surrey Sonnets (JackPine Press), Recto Verso Chez the Devil’s Printers (co-written with Joshua Pitre for Collusion Books) and Hymned Data (Pinhole Poetry.) He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series, has a chapbook review column for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory where he cohabitates with the one and only Cheryl Rossi.
Originally from Manila, Marc Perez lives in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. His fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead, EVENT Magazine, decomp journal, CV2, PRISM international, Vallum, among others. A recipient of grants from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, he has a BFA from the UBC School of Creative Writing. He is the author of the chapbook, Borderlands (Anstruther Press, 2020), and the full-length poetry collection, Dayo (Brick Books, 2024).
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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
