Join us for a second helping of poetry readings with Douglas Walbourne-Gough, author of Crow Gulch and the forthcoming collection Island; Danny McLaren, author of the chapbook of poetry and micro creative non-fiction, The Enby Manifesto; and Cara-Lyn Morgan, author of Building a Nest from the Bones of My People!
To register for this event, please email chair.word.feast@gmail.com. Accessibility information: ASL interpretation will be provided
Join the Word Feast Literary Festival for a big helping of poetry with three local poets, Fawn Parker, author of the Giller longlisted novel What We Both Know and her recent poetry collection Soft Inheritance; Jamie Kitts, author of the forthcoming chapbook, Girl Dinner; and Spencer Folkins whose poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines.
This event is produced with the support of the City of Fredericton. Accessibility information: ASL Interpretation will be provided, venue has stairs.
Join us for a night of celebrating the amazing writers in your neighbourhood with a keynote reading from Fredericton poet laureate Jordan Trethewey and the awarding of the Community Impact Award.
Jordan Trethewey’s These Are the People in Your Neighbourhood is the fulfillment of his legacy project for the City of Fredericton featuring personalized poems for roughly 80 Frederictonians based on the notes and thoughts from two years of collecting personal stories from willing participants.
Accessibility information: ASL Interpretation, stairs to get into venue.
Join City of Fredericton Poet Laureate Jordan Trethewey in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery common area, Thursday, January 25, at 6:30pm, for the launch of his highly anticipated book of Fredericton poems, “These Are the People in your Neighbourhood.”
Enjoy poetry readings by your fellow Frederictonians and a Q and A hosted by world traveller and author, Jeremy Gilmer.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase using cash, or etransfer.
Come out and hear stories about people in your neighbourhood. Coffee and snacks are available for purchase at the Daily Espresso.
Admission to the book launch in the common area is free.
Participants are encouraged to also visit the Gallery as admission is by donation on Thursday evenings.
Join us for a reading by critically-acclaimed poet Di Brandt, with an opening reading by current UNB graduate student Shauna Deathe.
Free online event. Registration via Eventbrite is here.