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Single Onion #223

  • Shelf Life Books · Calgary
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Single Onion #223
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Single Onion #223
The Single Onion continues its fall season with four excellent poets: Kathryn MacDonald, Carley Mayson, Uche Umerzurike, and Anna Veprinska.
WHEN: Thursday, October 15th, 7pm
WHERE: Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW
Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/@SingleOnionPoetry
About the Poets:
Kathryn MacDonald’s poetry has been published in Canadian and international journals and anthologies. Her poem, “On the Edge”, was nominated by Dust Poetry Magazine (UK) for Best of the Net anthology. Kathryn’s new poetry collection, The Blue Gate was published this spring by Frontenac House. She has also published three chapbooks, as well as a full poetry collection, A Breeze You Whisper, and a novel, Calla & Édourd.
Carley Mayson is a mentally ill writer who was born in Calgary, Alberta and attended Mount Royal University where she earned her BA in English. She then attended the University of Gloucestershire where she received her MA in Creative and Technical Writing.
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary and writes poetry, fiction, and literary criticism.
Anna Veprinska has published three collections of poetry, Wound Archive (Gordon Hill Press, 2026), Bonememory (University of Calgary Press, 2025), and Sew with Butterflies (Steel Bananas, 2014). She is also the author of the monograph Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
The Single Onion takes place the third Thursday of the month, nine times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at www.singleonion.com
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.
The Single Onion both acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). The city of Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation within Alberta (including Nose Hill Métis District 5 and Elbow Métis District 6)

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