Free Poetry Workshops
Saturday, April 12, 10:15 - 11: 45 AM.
Valley Voices Poetry Festival is hosting free public workshops in Kelowna. You must register ahead of time. Spaces are limited to 15 people per workshop. The workshops are being held at the downtown Kelowna branch of the Okanagan Regional Library, 1380 Ellis St, Kelowna, BC.
Revision Workshop: BYOP (Bring Your Own Poem)
Bring a poem you are working on for a guided exercise in revision. The session will be divided into small groups so that everyone has a chance to have their poem workshopped. Facilitated by MFA Poetry Students.
Free, but registration required. CLICK HERE.
Limited to 15 participants (if you can’t make it, please cancel so someone can take your place)
Generative Workshop: Collaborative Renga to Welcome Spring
We will work together to create short original stanzas of poetry that combine to create a single longer collaborative work. Based on the traditional forms of Haiku, Tanka, and Renga. Facilitated by MFA Poetry Students.
Free, but registration required. CLICK HERE.
Limited to 15 participants (if you can’t make it, please cancel so someone can take your place)
Nicholas Kucher is a queer poet operating from within the Okanagan Valley, originally hailing from the docks and shores of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. His work attempts to reconcile the constructed and the natural, finding the parity between the structural organization of society and the uncompromising wild beyond. After securing a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia Okanagain, he is back once again as he pursues his Masters of Fine Arts.
Meghan Reyda-Molnar is a poet currently residing on the land of the Syilx/Sw̓ kʷnaʔqin people, having moved to pursue an MFA at UBC Okanagan. Their work has been published in The Malahat Review, This Side of West and Dyke News.
Slava Bart is a second-year international MFA student at UBCO. He comes from Israel and enjoys multilingual and collaborative writing with a penchant for venturing deep into the past and far into the future, reaching across borders and disciplines, to promote community and peace. His thesis in poetry reinterprets the books of Genesis and Exodus using multiple languages to tell a personal story of the loss of home after the collapse of the USSR.
Christine McPhee lives and writes in Penticton. She is inspired by the grasslands, ponderosa pine forests, rivers and lakes and their various wild inhabitants. Christine's day job is as a librarian working with an amazing team of people to support literacy, democracy, and community at Okanagan Regional Library. Christine's work has been published in The Fiddlehead, The Dalhousie Review, Room, The Antigonish Review and Contemporary Verse 2.