Readings & Appearances

Readings & Appearances – upcoming, past & present (in newest-oldest date order):

• Saturday & Sunday March 21 & 22, 2026 – one of the poets reading at the launch of Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice, at Open Space. Details TBA.
• Friday February 2, 2026: Planet Earth Poetry Poets! A reading by PEP’s volunteers past and present at Russell Books, Victoria, 7:30pm.
• Saturday November 15, 2025: reading and books for sale as part of the Winter Poetry Market at Open Space, 510 Fort St, from 12:30–3:00 pm. Also there representing the Writers Union of Canada, as its BC/Yukon representative.
• Wednesday October 15, 2025: guest poet at Arts & Culture Colwood‘s evening of poetry and music, with fellow Victoria poet Barbara Pelman.
• Monday April 15, 2024 at 4pm – read new and published poems alongside Judy LeBlanc, reading from her new collection of personal essays, Permission to Land. Find us at Harbourfront Library, 90 Commercial St, Nanaimo BC.
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  November 2, 2023 at 7pm – featured reader at Salt Spring Island’s Poetry Open Mic series; Salt Spring Public Library, 29 McPhillips Ave, Salt Spring Island.
• Saturday October 15, 2023 at 2pm – poetry & music in celebration of the Gorge Waterway, appearing with fellow poet Wendy Donowa and local musicians; Cedar Shores, 77 Gorge Road, Victoria BC.
• Sunday 13 August, 2023 from 2:30-5pm, Judy LeBlanc and I read from our recent Caitlin books at my home.
• Wednesday 12 July 2023 at 8:30am, at ASLE 2023 in Portland, Oregon. Appearing with fellow eco-poets Lori DiPrete Brown; Sandy Feinstein; and Trey Moody.
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  Saturday 22 April 2023 from 2-3pm at the Capilano Branch, North Vancouver Public in Edgemont Village, 3045 Highland Blvd: in-person reading with Susan Alexander in celebration of National Poetry Month (and Shakespeare’s birthday!)
• 7:30pm Wednesday January 18, 2023 in Vancouver – reading with Sarah de Leeuw at Poets Corner. Join us in person at Fairleigh Dickinson University auditorium, 842 Cambie St. in Yaletown.
• Saturday December 10, 2022 at 2pm, in-person reading with Gary Geddes and Ann Eriksson at Gabriola Arts and Heritage Centre, 476-510 South Rd, Gabriola, BC V0R 1X2.
• Saturday October 29, 2022 – in-person reading with Nancy Mattson and Caroline Maldonado at St Mary’s Church, Islington, 7pm. Admission by donation; proceeds to Hospice Care Kenya.
• Saturday October 22,2022 at 4pm. In-person reading with Susan Alexander at Christ Church Cathedral,690 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2L1.
• Saturday September 17, 2022  from 2-3:30pm – in-person reading with Heidi Greco at White Rock Public Library, 15342 Buena Vista Avenue, White Rock BC, in celebration of National Organic Week!
• June 15-18, 2022 – at ALECC conference in Saskatoon; in-person reading as part of two Poetry Walks with fellow poets Tanis MacDonald and Ariel Gordon. Our walks were at 2:30pm Thursday 16th and 11:30am Saturday 18th. Details in the conference program.
• Tuesday June 14, 2022 – 7pm in-person reading at McNally Robinson, Saskatoon SK, with Mari-Lou Rowley & Katherine Lawrence.
• Friday June 10, 2022 – in-person reading at Planet Earth Poetry as part of the celebration reading for Poets Caravan; one of nearly 30 poets scheduled to read a poem and celebrate the project.
• Sunday June 5, 2022 – 11am PST – *online* joint launch of Larder – with Mari-Lou Rowley on Zoom, courtesy of Anvil Press & Caitlin Press. The amazing Lisa Pasold will be host for our reading. Recording on Vimeo can be viewed here (gallery view only).
• Saturday May 28, 2022 – 1-3pm – one of a small grove of poets reading to celebrate the publication of Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees. Harbourfront Library, Nanaimo BC.
• Friday May 27, 2022 – 7:30 to 9pm – featured reader at Planet Earth Poetry at Russell Books in Victoria.
• Thursday May 12, 2022 – 7pm Fat Oyster in-person reading with Arleen Paré and Kelly Madden, in Fanny Bay BC. grateful thanks to funding provided by the Canada Council through The Writers’ Union of Canada.
• May 6, 2022  – Larder, my 7th full length poetry collection, published by Caitlin Press.

(List of previous readings here)

Poetry recently published in:

• Acumen; Alimentum; Antigonish Review; Channel; CuiZine; CV2; Descant; The Malahat Review; Poetrymagazine.com; Prism International; Small Farmer’s Journal; Vallum (including an audio version of The Phantom Bus)
• Deep Waters: Rivers, Lakes & Seas anthology, Outrider Press.
• The Earth’s Kitchen, a tasty chapbook of food poetry from Leaf Press
• First Sixty: the Acumen anthology, 2010, Patricia Oxley, Ed.
  
• Going Behind the Scenes: Education at Kettle’s Yard.
• Poems from Planet Earth: the Planet Earth Poetry anthology,  from Leaf Press January 2013.
• Prism International, Food issue, 2013.
• Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry, Mothertongue Press, 2008; Mona Fertig, Harold Rhenisch, editors.
• Sweet Water: Poems for the Watershed, Yvonne Blomer, ed., Caitlin, 2019.
• Sunday Dinners, a chewy little interactive collection designed by Calgary artist Colleen Philippi, from JackPine Press
• Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s, edited by Lorri Neilsen Glenn; from Guernica, 2013.
• Walk Myself Home: An Anthology to End Violence Against Women from Caitlin Press (proceeds to THS Society of Transition Houses)
• We Are One: Poems from the Pandemic, George Melnyk, ed., Bayeux, 2020.
• Worth More Standing, Christine Lowther, ed., Caitlin Press, 2022.
• Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-fiction Jane Cawthorne and E.D. Morin eds. Inanna, 2017.

Recently published prose:

• A Small Farm Future. Feature, in Small Farm Canada, May-June 2021.
• On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus; review in  Small Farm Canada, July 2020.
• Apples! Are They Still Keeping the Doctor Away? feature, in Alive Magazine, August 2014.
• Review of Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson, in Small Farm Canada, March/April 2014.
• A Last Bite of Summer: The Flavour Gourmet Picnic. EAT Magazine (October 2012).
• A Moveable Feast: Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World from Lonely Planet;
• Dealing with Wireworms. Feature in Small Farm Canada (Nov/Dec 2011)
• Prime Pollinators: More than honeybees in the fields; and Will Allen’s Powerful Message: Growing out of poverty. Small Farm Canada (March/April 2011).

Recent Books:

• Larder (poetry) was published May 2022 by Caitlin Press.
• Ex-ville (poetry) was published November 2014 by Oolichan Books.
• Digging the City (nonfiction) was published October 2012 by RMB
• Cartography (poetry) was published March 2006 by Oolichan Books.