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Join us for Friday night poetry! Please note, in addition to the evening reading, Ashley-Elizabeth Best will also be reading at New Horizons Centre in James Bay at 2pm on November 15. See the PEP website (www.planetearthpoetry.com) for more details.
Featured Poets:
Kim Trainor is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller who worked in logging camps around Port Alberni in the 1930s. Ledi was a finalist for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award. A blueprint for survival appeared with Guernica Editions in Spring 2024.
A-E Best is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston, Ontario. Her work can be found in The Capilano Review, New Welsh Review, CV2, Ambit Magazine, Mslexia, and Chatelaine. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Bad Weather Mammals, is now available from ECW Press. She’s currently the Editorial Coordinator for Arc Poetry Magazine and a Marketing Assistant for Brick Books.
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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
