Single Onion #221

Thu, 11 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm UTC-06:00

Shelf Life Books | Calgary

Single Onion #221
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The Single Onion wraps up its spring season with four great poets: ryan fitzpatrick, Skylar Kay, Lisa Martin, and Adriana Oniță.
WHEN: Thursday, June 11, 7pm
WHERE: Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW
Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/@SingleOnionPoetry
About the Poets:
ryan fitzpatrick is the author of five books of poetry, including the recent No Depression in Heaven (Talonbooks, 2025) and Sunny Ways (Invisible, 2023). Their creative nonfiction book, Ace Theory: An Essay in Fragments About Asexuality, will be published by Book*Hug this fall.
Skylar Kay is an Albertan writer and cactus parent. She has two collections of poetry, Transcribing Moonlight and There's Magic Here Too, as well as a cool omegaverse fan-fic on AO3. She likes cheese, mystery books, and cloud watching.
Lisa Martin is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Nighthawks (University of Alberta Press, 2026). Her first novel is A Story Can Be Told About Pain (NeWest Press, 2025). Her academic book, CREATIVE WRITING IN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION: PRACTICE, PEDAGOGY, AND RESEARCH (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), a blend of memoir and scholarly review, will be out in paperback this fall. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at MacEwan University.
Adriana Oniță is a poet, artist, educator, editor, translator, and researcher with a PhD in arts-based language education. She writes and teaches in English, Romanian, Spanish, French, and Italian. Her debut poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue, is published by Palimpsest Press / Anstruther Books. Her multilingual poems also appear in CBC Books, The Globe and Mail, The Ex-Puritan, Canthius, Tint Journal, and in her chapbooks: Misremembered Proverbs (above/ground press, 2023) and Conjugated Light (Glass Buffalo, 2019). As founder of The Polyglot, she is proud to have published more than 250 writers, translators, and artists working in over 60 languages. She is the editorial director at the Griffin Poetry Prize and lives between Edmonton and Italy.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets, the Calgary Arts Development, Inside Out Theatre, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, the Calgary Foundation, and Shelf Life Books.
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