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Poetry Reading: andrea bennett and Kevin Spenst
April 17, 7:30 pm PST
Fairleigh Dickinson University
842 Cambie Street
Vancouver
Or Online through this Zoom Link
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Kevin Spenst is the author of sixteen chapbooks and three full-length books of poetry plus the upcoming A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press, 2024). He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series, has a chapbook review column for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory where he cohabitates with the one and only Cheryl Rossi.
Open Mic Poetry Reading
As always, we encourage attendees to bring a poem to share at our open mic.
Tickets
This is a pay-what-you-can event. If you are able to make a donation, send by e-transfer to poetscornerreadingseries [at] gmail.com
Money will be used to pay poets for appearing at upcoming poetry readings in 2024.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Writer’s Union of Canada, and the League of Canadian Poets.