Our October 16 Spoken INK readings and workshop

at the Burnaby Arts Council's  Deer Lake Gallery

6584 Deer Lake Avenue. Burnaby

Critiquing workshop 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. Readings at 8 p.m.

Poet, performer and playwright Penn Kemp has read from new books of poetry, Local Heroes (Insomniac), and Fox Haunts (Aeolus House). Penn has been lauded as a trailblazer since her first Coach House publication (1972), and a “one-woman literary industry” as London’s inaugural Poet Laureate and Western’s Writer-in-Residence. She was the League of Canadian Poets’ Spoken Word Artist, 2015. Two new plays followed her previous books, Barbaric Cultural Practice and Jack Layton: Art in Action. www.pennkemp.weebly.com.


Susan McCaslin, an established Canadian poet, has published fifteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Into the Open: Poems New and Selected (Inanna, Sept. 2017). Her Demeter Goes Skydiving (University of Alberta Press, 2011) was short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Poetry Book Prize) and first-place winner of the Alberta Book Publishing Award. Susan resides in Fort Langley, BC, where she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project as part of a successful campaign to protect an endangered rainforest along the Fraser River. www.susanmccaslin.ca