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Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? In honour of that, the Buzzie Indie Sessions is pleased to present an Evening of Poetry in Celebration of National Poetry Month. It all happens in the magic following the Solar Eclipse April 8. Come join us was we share chosen, spoken words in community and delight. All in celebration of the joy and expressiveness of poetry.
Tanis MacDonald (she/they) is the author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, Mobile: poems, The Daughter’s Way, and four other books. With Ariel Gordon, Tanis co-edited the special “Moving on Land” issue of The Goose (2023). Tanis serves as the General Editor of the Laurier Poetry Series, hosts the podcast Watershed Writers, and has twice been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. She is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and is currently working on a new poetry manuscript.
Sarah Tolmie is an award-winning poet and speculative fiction writer, author of twelve books, and professor of British literature and creative writing at UW. Her website is http://www.sarahtolmie.ca/.
Chris Banks is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated Canadian poet and author of seven collections of poems, most recently Alternator with Nightwood Editions (Fall 2023). His first full-length collection, Bonfires, was awarded the Jack Chalmers Award for poetry by the Canadian Authors’ Association in 2004. His writing has appeared in Canada and the United States.
Ashley Hynd is a poet with mixed ancestry who lives on the Haldimand Tract and respects the Attawandron, Anishnawbe, and Haudenosaunee relationships with the land. Like many people with mixed heritage, the full knowledge of her history is unclear. Her writing grapples with the erasure of her history and is as much an act of reclamation as it is a call of accountability for what has been lost. She was shortlisted for Arc Poem of the Year in 2018 and won the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize in 2017. Her poetry has appeared in Arc Poetry Magainze, Canthius, Room Magazine, Prism International, among other publications.
Scott Wicken is a singer/songwriter and spoken word artist based in Waterloo. Originally, he performed spoken word poetry at festivals, in bars, art galleries and coffeeshops in Ontario and western Canada. He transitioned into songwriting in the early ’90’s and also found himself co-writing and acting in comedic theatre. Wicken has released a handful of recordings and published a book, Just Another One Night Stanza. He dabbles in audio recording, video, drawing mandalas, photography and web design.
