Poetry Ember Series
Beneath the cloak of night the EMBER sessions await. Here, local honored poets guide your journey. Each session is led by a different Honored Poet, sharing their secrets and leading you through their own poetic exercises. *"LIT" and "ember" are scheduled every two weeks on alternating Tuesdays. Come and write your poetry at "ember" and share your poetry at "LIT".
March. 27. 2024
RC Weslowski
RC Weslowski wears many masks including poet, clown, storyteller, playwright, broadcaster, voice actor, coach and educator. Over the past 15 years he has toured North America, The United Kingdom and other parts of Europe including many spoken word, poetry and music festivals.
April. 23. 2024
Jeremy Loveday
Jeremy Loveday is an award winning performance poet and 2X Victoria Poetry Slam Champion. Jeremy speaks his truth powerfully on social and environmental justice issues, gender violence, love, manhood, and leadership. His work has been featured on Upworthy, Huffington Post and CBC.
January. 15. 2023
Marie Metaphor
Marie Metaphor’s work has been featured at festivals, arts events and poetry slams across the country. She believes in the transformative power of this art form and has had the privilege of coaching and creating space for youth poets for two decades.
January. 30. 2023
Kyeren Regehr
Since 2008, Kyeren Regehr’s poetry has been published in literary anthologies and journals in Canada, Australia, and the U.S.A. and was thrice longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards, among others. Kyeren is the forthcoming Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry (Jan, 2024).
February. 27. 2023
Xiao Yue Shan
Xiao Yue Shan has received the New Millennium Award for Poetry and the Juxtaprose Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, and the Ambit Poetry Competition. She runs the Beijing-based, bilingual literary journal Spittoon Literary Magazine.