The Poet Laureate Podcast:

a luminous space for listening.

Each month: one poet, one moment.

Hosted by Kyeren Regehr,

7th Poet Laureate of Victoria.

Featuring exceptional poets and their poetry.

Coming April 2025 for National Poetry Month!
Recorded at Haus of Owl in Victoria BC

on lək̓ʷəŋən homelands.

Episode One due for release in April 2025!

Episodes

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Lorri Neilsen Glenn

Lorri Neilsen Glenn was Halifax's first Métis Poet Laureate. She's the author and contributing editor of fifteen titles of poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly work, The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been (Nimbus). She is a Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Lorri has served on juries for the Canada Council, CBC literary awards and numerous provincial and national book prizes. Lorri's poetry has been adapted several times for libretti and her essays and poems appear in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She was a recipient of Halifax's Women of Excellence award, has had appointments as Writer in Residence across Canada and served as President of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Lorri has mentored writers across Canada and in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, and Chile. She divides her time between Halifax and Rose Bay, Nova Scotia.