planet earth poetry is online on friday nights. Click Here to Register.

We are excited to bring our poetry community together online. Each week, the Planet Earth Poetry newsletter will include a link to the Zoom reading scheduled for Friday nights at 7:15, with open mic and the featured reader starting at 7:30. If you aren’t already signed up to get our weekly news, click here to ask to be added to the email list. Scroll down or check out our Facebook page for what’s coming up.

to sign up for open mic, visit this link between tuesday and Friday noon.

Planet Earth Poetry gratefully acknowledges all of its supporters.

Our judges have picked the three winning poems in our Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. Click here to read the poems.

POETS CARAVAN

We are excited to launch our latest project to share poetry!

The Planet Earth Poetry Poets Caravan highlights the rich cultural landscape of the CRD, with readings from poets in all of its nine regions. Each poet is represented by a pin on Google Earth of a spot meaningful to them in the CRD – somewhere they like to do their writing or find particularly inspiring.

CLICK HERE to go to google earth & watch our poets.

(Be patient, the program needs a bit of time to load in your browser.) We have eight CRD poets up; one more to come. After that, we’ll be adding more poets who live in Victoria, thanks to a grant from the City of Victoria.)

The Poets Caravan is accessible to audiences both in the CRD and worldwide. This interactive experience will be available over time and provides a way for poets and poetry to reach a wide audience in this time when in-person reading events aren’t possible. Digital projects come with accessibility challenges for those who may not have access to a computer or have disabilities which stop them from using the selected platform. We have made the videos and text available for download separately on request. Please email Planet Earth Poetry if you’d like this option.

Thank you to the CRD Arts and Culture Support Fund, the BC Arts Council and the City of Victoria for their support and funding of the Poets Caravan. Thanks to videographer Lorraine Scollan for capturing each poet's unique voice with care and enthusiasm!

online readings in march 2021

open mic as usual — click here between tuesday and Friday noon to sign up

UPCOMING READINGS

friDAY, march 5, 2021

adrienne drobnies

Adrienne Drobnies lives in Vancouver and has a PhD in chemistry. Her book Salt and Ashes won the 2020 Fred Kerner Book Award. She has a poem in this year’s Poetry in Transit. Her long poem “Randonnées” won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Award and was a CBC literary award finalist.

A woman walks repeatedly through Grenoble and nearby mountains over many months, experiencing anticipatory grief and later bereavement. Poems of dislocation, rage, and healing take root and engage the vocabulary of science, and its language and concepts, to encounter the natural world with intensity and clarity. Like the egg and bitter herbs dipped in salt at the Seder Table, they remind us that beyond pain and grief, the only peace we have is the one we construct for ourselves.

The Cyborg Anthology by Lindsay B-e — *The* *Cyborg Anthology* by Lindsay B-e

friDAY, march 12, 2021

lindsay b-e

Lindsay B-e is a writer and filmmaker from Saskatchewan who now lives in Toronto. Lindsay is married with two kids, two dogs, and two cats. They can be found online at biseenscene.com. The Cyborg Anthology is their first book.

The Cyborg Anthology takes place in a future where there was a thriving world of Robots and Cyborgs living peacefully beside Humans, but a disaster destroyed all Robot and most Cyborg life. The book is organized like a typical anthology of literature, split into sections that include a biography of each poet and a sample of their poetry. It covers early Cyborg poetry, political, celebrity, and pop culture poets, and ends with the next generation of Cyborg poets.

You can buy this book here from Brick Books or at any of the major online booksellers.

friDAY, march 19, 2021

spring fling

all open mic night

With special guests Stephen T. Berg and Vanessa Shields, winner and honourable mention of PEP’s Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. A night devoted to poetry of springtime, hope, and renewal. Sign up to read your best spring poem! Wear something bright and/or floral patterned and come help us celebrate the Spring Equinox.

friDAY, march 26, 2021

patricia vickers

Dr. Vickers belongs to the Eagle clan from the village of Gitxaala, British Columbia where she carries a feast hall name as well as one from the Nuxalk village in Bella Coola, British Columbia. With the help of neurofeedback and ancestral principles, she teaches spiritual transformation, healing trauma, awakening, forgiveness and unearthing layers to find the authentic self.

Singing to the Darkness unfolds as a visual inquiry and integrative process, fulfilling her intention to help others to observe their authentic selves, especially all those who have been conditioned through colonization of Indigenous People. Patricia’s soul catcher stories and meditations complete with twenty of her Nature-inspired paintings are just right to carry on your person and through your day. Dr. Vickers presents a human story centered on the spiritual energy of respect as action that points toward wholeness.

Singing to the Darkness by Patricia Vickers — *Singing to the Darkness* by Patricia Vickers

Planet Earth Poetry is pleased to announce that, through a generous gift from Lorna Crozier, we have two sets of numbered limited edition prints of Patrick Lane’s original work from the early 1980s that we will be offering for sale as of March 15, 2020.

Prints are $250 each, payable to Planet Earth Poetry. Shipping costs will be the responsibility of the purchaser. The prints are unframed (protected by a plastic sleeve) and are 15 x 22 inches. Order and pay by e-transfer in an email to Planet Earth Poetry. Please indicate which print or prints you wish to purchase in the email body and use the subject line Lane Prints.

All proceeds from this sale will go toward the on-going work of Planet Earth Poetry.
Thanks to DC Reid for the images of the prints that are posted.

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The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of writers and poets established and not. It is a place where words are most important. A venue in which all manner of poets and writers are welcome; a place for excellence, innovation, collaboration, diverse projects and experiments. The evening begins at 7:30 with an open mic, followed by a featured reader(s). Planet Earth Poetry is currently a digital reading series. Planet Earth Poetry acknowledges with respect that we read and write on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.

Planet Earth Poetry gratefully acknowledges all of its supporters.