Saturday April 27 SUMMERLAND
Reading: Michael V. Smith and Kerry Gilbert 1PM
Plus a free poetry workshop- 2:00- 3:30 PM (Details and registration here.)
Celebrate National Poetry Month!
Summerland Library, 9533 Main St, Summerland All welcome. Free admission.
Michael V. Smith writes in many genres, from poetry to film to novels to improvisatory performance. Smith has won a number of awards for both his film work and his writing. His memoir, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp, 2015) was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. The Floating Man won Director’s Choice at the Cinema Diverse festival in Palm Springs. Smith has also won the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and a Western Magazine Award for Fiction. Michael V. Smith is a Professor at UBC, Okanagan campus, where he teaches Creative Writing.
Kerry Gilbert lives in the Okanagan, where she teaches Creative Writing at Okanagan College. Her first book, (kerplnk): a verse novel of development (2005) was published with Kalamalka Press. Her second and third books of poetry, Tight Wire (2016) and Little Red (2019) were released with Mother Tongue Publishing. Her next poetry book, Lady Bird, was published in 2023 with Exile Editions. Gilbert has won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer and has been shortlisted for ReLit, for the Ralph Gustafson Prize for the Best Poem, for the Pacific Spirit Poetry Contest and for the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry for Best Suite by an Established Writer.
