WINNER of
the Raven Chapbooks Award
SHORTLISTED for
the ReLit Awards
FINALIST for
The Victoria Butler Book Prize
photo credit: John Threlfall
MY LATEST NEWS!
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As the City faces funding cuts, please take ten minutes and send an email to the Mayor and the City Council, letting them know that the comparatively small budget offered to the arts is ESSENTIAL. Not only for the subsistence of working artists, but for growth of the creative arts in our city, which flows into the whole community, impacting the city and it's people for generations.
There's a template with some points on Planet Earth Poetry's Facebook page, but please share your own story about how the arts in Victoria impacts you and your family.
Cult Lit: Thursday, January 30th
With Carly Butler (Apocalypse Child: Surviving Doomsday and the Search for Identity at the End of the World ), Sonja Larsen (Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary), and Kyeren Regehr (Cult Life).
Doors: 6:30 p.m. Open mic: 7:00 p.m.
Featured readers: 7:30 p.m.
Paul Phillips Hall, 1923 Fernwood Road
$5 CASH admission
Authors’ books will be for sale at the event
Please bring CASH for admission and books
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THIS WED OCT 23rd
PRAIRE FIRE PRESS
(all the way from Winnipeg)
at Cafe Fantastico on Quadra St!
Over 1000 women submitted entries to this literary project--
I'm so honoured to be included!
Wonderful News!
Winner of Eavesdrop Magazine's
Queer Joy Poetry Contest
My poem "Gathering Wild Petals on the Saanich Peninsula" will be published in the forthcoming issue, and featured as a recording on Eavesdrop Magazine's website.
Writing the Coast:
BC Yukon Book Prize Podcast
In this episode I speak with Megan Cole, Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, about Planet Earth Poetry, and about my journey from the open mic in 2007 to becoming the artistic director in 2024. I also talk about the events and the programs that we offer at this beloved 28-year-old poetry reading series.
Victoria Butler Book Prize Finalist
Relit Award Shortlist
CBC Spring Poetry Selection 2021
All Lit Up: National Poetry Month Selection 2021
Work from Cult Life:
Selected for Best Canadian Poetry in English
Second Place in The Fiddlehead's Poetry Contest
Second Place in Prism International's Poetry Prize
Longlisted for CBC Poetry Awards
Longlisted for The Montreal Prize
From Sylvia Legris: "I read Kyeren Regehr's Cult Life in one "speed-firing" swoop and after had that woozy-spinning-exhilarating disorientation you feel when you stumble out of a roller coaster. These poems, a pushme-pullyou chronicle of life inside an ashram...”
Winner of the Raven Chapbooks Award
“[This] work is ASTONISHING. I’ve never read anyone who could capture the reality of what it is to be a dancer in such a guttingly raw, visceral way—no glorification or pastel sugary fluff that typically accompanies attempts to reveal the daily workings of the ballet world. This can only come from an insider’s view, and someone who is not afraid to make the grotesque and deeply dark parts familiar. Disassembling A Dancer is delicious yet challenging reading. I hope this book reaches a wide audience. It’s WONDERFUL.”
From Jennifer Nichols (lead choreographer for the Netflix series,Tiny Pretty Things).