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Please join Yvonne Blomer, Joanna Lilley and kjmunro for a poetry reading on Tuesday, November 17th, at 5:30 pm at Baked on Main in Whitehorse.The event will include the launch of Joanna Lilley’s Three Pieces of Sea.
Book sale and signing courtesy of Mac’s Fireweed Books.
About the poets:
Yvonne Blomer’s latest publication is the chapbook Cedar Deck, Seaside Garden, Salish Sea, published by Pinhole Poetry in 2026. Her sixth book of poems Death of Persephone: A Murder, is a mystery based on the Persephone myth, the noir mystery genre and the ongoing violence to girls and women. It is a murder mystery in poetry. An excerpt of Death of Persephone won the Gwendolyn MacEwen poetry prize in 2021 with Exile Editions. Yvonne is a past poet laureate of Victoria, B.C. and Arc Magazine’s poet-in-residence for 2022-23. She is an award-winning poet and nonfiction writer who has edited five anthologies, most recently: Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice. Yvonne lives on the territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking people from where she creates and teaches immersive and inspiring poetry classes on zoom to poets across North America.
Joanna Lilley's new poetry collection, Three Pieces of Sea (Turnstone Press), is inspired by the life and work of her sister Rebecca Lilley, a painter, printmaker, sculptor and community artist who died of breast cancer. Joanna's previous collection, Endlings, won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Her other books are If There Were Roads; The Fleece Era, which was nominated for the Fred Cogswell Award; Worry Stones, which was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award; and The Birthday Books. Joanna is from the UK and now lives in Whitehorse on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council. She's a co-founder of Yukon Words and in 2021 received the Commissioner of Yukon’s Borealis Prize for Literary Contribution.
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, kjmunro moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991 and now lives on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council. She served for 10 years as Membership Secretary for Haiku Canada. She founded and facilitates ‘solstice haiku’, a monthly haiku discussion group in Whitehorse, and, since 2018, she has curated Haiku Dialogue for The Haiku Foundation. She is the recipient of the 2023 Borealis Prize – the Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019), and her latest chapbook, honesty slips (Turret House Press, 2026), is now available.
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Event venue
Baked Cafe & Bakery, 100 Main St, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2A8, Canada
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