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Join us for Friday night poetry! Featured Poets:
Shane Book is a poet, filmmaker and professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. His most recent collection, Congotronic, won the Archibald Lampman Award and K.M. Hunter Award, and was a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Award, Ottawa Book Award and Griffin Prize. His films have screened at more than fifty film festivals around the world and on television. In 2024, he was a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His new poetry collection, All Black Everything, drops next year.
Xiao Yue Shan is a poet, writer, translator, and editor. She was born in China and now lives on Vancouver Island. then telling be the antidote won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and was published in 2024. How Often I Have Chosen Love won the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2019.
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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
