Nelson, you were great! Notably, a Book Lover’s Emporium was a wonderful venue tonight, full of wonderful people (this boy finally met Tom Wayman!). Here's Kevin Spenst (he/him) doing very Kevin Spenst things at the reading.

Rossland tomorrow! Kelowna on Thursday! See you there!

Today I tagged along with @kevinpenst to visit Ms. Kroker's creative writing class at LV Rogers Secondary in Nelson. Not one but two poets!

The kids were smart and funny and wrote weird poems - what more could you ask for?

Nelson! We're here! See you tonight 😊

What a night at Cardiff/Miller Art Warehouse in Enderby! A great crowd in an incredible venue. And kevin mcpherson eckhoff's sentient fart posing all sexy on my car. What more could a boy ask for?

4 of 4/ A contemp. example in Canada is Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers. The design; the paper; the typography for titles, headings & body text: so elegant & carefully chosen. What a happy turn for poet Rob Taylor to have landed Gaspereau to house his correspondingly beautiful new poems.

The Weather a Bouquet tour is underway! Kevin Spenst (he/him) is roided up on coffee and venison and hunched maniacally over the wheel. Enderby, we'll be there soon!

Here's an amazing little promo video Kevin made, featuring my poem 'The Creek':

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Look who's here! And they've brought some Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers friends along with them!

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This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the brains
that were in
RFK Jr's skull

and which
he was probably
saving
for a coherent presidential bid

Forgive me
they were delicious
so smooth
and so loose

'Kevin O'Leary hosts. Mocks the disabled to big laughs. Screams 'Wacko!' at anyone who mentions war, the environment, reproductive rights or the poors. Gives out a prize or whatever. Little Hitler salute. Done.'

- Writers' Trust team brainstorming for Politics and the Pen 2025

In the final instalment in our #NationalPoetryMonth series with Rob Taylor, seven BC poets talk about the local poets that they're inspired by! Get double the recommendations in one blog post. Read it now!
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Ah, the good ol' days...

Surrey Muse Gathering
Sat, May 25, 2024
1–4PM (PT)
City Centre Library
WITH
Author Jann Everard
Poet Rob Taylor
Artist Emilie Fantuz
Emerging Writer Christine Anonuevo
Emerging Artist Harem Tahir
Featured Art by Abe Odedina
Host Samantha Krilow
OPEN MIC

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The new issue of Arc Poetry Magazine is here! It includes a long interview I conducted with Sue Sinclair about her life in writing and her selected poems, Almost Beauty (@goose_lane).