planet earth poetry is online on friday nights.
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. Check here or on our Facebook page for what’s coming up. You can also receive the Zoom link by registering (FREE) through this link at Eventbrite.
to sign up for open mic, visit this link between tuesday and Friday noon.
Planet Earth Poetry gratefully acknowledges all of its supporters.
online reading in october 2020 Part two
open mic as usual — click here between tuesday and Friday noon to sign up
Sotto Voce by Maureen Hynes
friDAY, october 23, 2020
maureen hynes
Maureen Hynes is a Toronto poet whose first collection won the League of Canadian Poets’ Lampert Award. In 2020, her fifth collection, Sotto Voce, was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Award, and the Golden Crown Literary Award (U.S.). Her poems have appeared in over 25 anthologies.
www.maureenhynes.ca
Sotto Voce (a stage term for speaking intentionally in a low voice) is a book that gives full attention to a world in shambles, a world in which “mercy is failing,” that bears witness to the “dynamite stick of injustice.” It balances fear and hope, gathering themes of history and human migration, climate change and natural beauty, women’s lives, both straight and queer, and, finally, good fortune and renewal. It weighs the importance of knowing when to speak loudly, and when to whisper.
Voicing Suicide edited by Daniel G Scott
tuesDAY, october 27, 2020
Launch for Voicing suicide
TIME: 7PM
Voicing Suicide is a collection of poems about suicide and its impact on lives. The book arises from a conviction that poetry offers an opportunity to understand some of the difficult aspects of suicide by allowing us to give it voice; through memory, and elegy, and through an honest declaration of the draw of death. In poetry, we can enter and articulate the spaces suicide shapes around loss and sorrow. Although intense and sometimes painful the book is honest, in moments delicate and tender. It offers an important exploration of suicide by writers who have been close to suicide, and speak of it without disguise.
Join us for a reading by some of the poets who appear in the anthology.
The assembly of words in Voicing Suicide leaves an imprint with the reader, bringing us into a shared dialogue not only about suicide, but also about the promotion of life, and the need to listen to the voices of those most impacted."
Jonathan Morris, Critical Suicide Studies Network
Voicing Suicide is a chorus of voices which sing to the “you” who is gone or within; it is a call to the living spirit; it is an obituary in the language of song to the “latest mammal gone extinct.”
Yvonne Blomer, editor of Sweet Water: Poems for the Watershed.
friDAY, october 30, 2020
joseph a. dandurand
Joseph A. Dandurand is a member of Kwantlen First Nation located on the Fraser River about 20 minutes east of Vancouver. He resides there with his 3 children Danessa, Marlysse, and Jace. Joseph is the Director of the Kwantlen Cultural Center. Joseph received a Diploma in Performing Arts from Algonquin College and studied Theatre and Direction at the University of Ottawa. He has just completed his residency as the Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library. He sits on a committee for the Canadian Museum of History and is tasked with consulting on the redesign of the new Children’s Museum. He has published 13 books of poetry and the latest are: I Want by Leaf Press (2015) and Hear and Foretell by BookLand Press (2015) The Rumour (2018) by BookLand Press in (2018) SH:LAM (the doctor) Mawenzi Press (2019) The Corrupted by Guernica Press (2020) his children’s play: Th’owixiya: The Hungry Feast Dish by Playwrights Press Canada (2019) his book of short stories and short plays for children: The Sasquatch, the Fire, and the Cedar Basket will be published by Nightwood Press along with his poetry manuscript: Here we come (2020-21) He also is very busy storytelling at many events and schools.
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.
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.
