Nobember 19th, 2023 at Massy Arts
Phinder Dulai - T.S. Elliot (1888-1965)
Meredith Quartermain - Douglas Barbour (1940 - 2021)
Peter Quartermain - Maurice Scully (1952 - 2023)
Christopher Levenson - Gerda Mayer (1927 - 2021)
September 10th at Massy Arts
Kim Trainor - Nadia Anjuman (1980-2005)
Natalie Lim - Jason Shinder (1955–2008)
Bronwen Tate - Mina Loy (1882-1966)
Brandon Wint - Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
July 9, 2023 3-5pm at Massy Arts
Heidi Greco - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
Barbara Pelman - Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
Veronika Gorlova - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
Tariq Malik - Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984)
May 14th, 2023, 3-5pm - Massy Arts Gallery, Vancouver
José García Villa (1908-1997) read by Hari Alluri
Jaroslav Seifert (1901- 1986) read by Marc Perez
Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967) read by Saba Pakdel
March 12th, 2023, 3-5pm - Massy Arts Gallery, Vancouver
Edward Taylor Fletcher (1817-1897), read by James Gifford
Robin Blaser (1925 - 2009), read by Stephen Collis
Lee Maracle (1950 - 2021), read by Joanne Arnott
Mark Aguhar (1987-2012), read by Laura Fukumoto
Robin Blaser (1925 - 2009), read by Stephen Collis
Lee Maracle (1950 - 2021), read by Joanne Arnott
Mark Aguhar (1987-2012), read by Laura Fukumoto
January 8th, 2023 3-5pm - Massy Arts Gallery, Vancouver
Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021), read by Raoul Fernandes
Don Domanski (1950 - 2020), read by Kevin Spenst
Steven Heighton (1961 - 2022), read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Phyllis Webb (1927 - 2021), read by Jane Munro
January 20th, 2019, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Roy Kiyooka (1926 - 1994), read by Jen Sookfong LeeRainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), read by Benjamin Hertwig
Mark Strand (1934 - 2014), read by Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Sharron Proulx-Turner (1953 - 2016), read by Jonina Kirton
November 18th, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
June Jordan (1936 - 2002), read by Phanuel Antwi
Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992), read by Bibiana Tomasic
Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941 - 1987), read by Carleigh Baker
Richard Outram (1930 - 2005), read by Amanda Jernigan
Special WORD Reading: September 30th, 2018, 3:40-4:10 PM - Poetry Tent, VPL Library Square, Vancouver
C.P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) and John Newlove (1938 - 2003), read by Rob Taylor
Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995), read by Christopher Levenson
Shel Silverstein (1930 - 1999), read by Isabella Wang
September 30th, 2018, September 16th, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Reinaldo Arenas (1943 - 1990), read by Aidan Chafe
Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973), read by Danny Peart
Sei Shōnagon (966 - 1017), read by Yvonne Blomer
Derek Walcott (1930 - 2017), read by Alan Hill
July 8th, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
John Ashbery (1927 - 2017), read by Catherine Owen
Jim Carroll (1949 - 2009), read by Geoffrey Nilson
Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963), read by Christopher Levenson
Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963), read by Alan Girling
May 6th, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Michael Bullock (1918 - 2008), read by Laifong Leung
Gord Downie (1964 - 2017), read by Tariq Hussain
Madho Lal Hussain (1538 - 1599), read by Fauzia Rafique
Vera Manuel (1949 - 2010), read by Wanda John-Kehewin
March 11th, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Chief Dan George (1899 - 1981), read by Wil George
Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990), read by Hari Alluri
Ryōkan (1758 - 1831), read by Lydia Kwa
Anne Wilkinson (1910 - 1961), read by Heather Haley
January 14th, 2018, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Richard Brautigan (1935 - 1984), read by Kelsey Klassen
Don Coles (1927 - 2017), read by Rob Taylor
Czesław Miłosz (1911 - 2004), read by Bethany Hindmarsh
Helene Rosenthal (1922 - 2010), read by Cynthia Flood
November 12th, 2017, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Lucille Clifton (1936 - 2010), read by Ian Williams
Connie Fife (1961 - 2017), read by Joanne Arnott
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), read by Natasha Sanders-Kay
James Welch (1940 - 2003), read by Pamela Bentley
Richard Wilbur (1921 - 2017), read by Christopher Levenson
September 10th, 2017, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Peter Culley (1958 - 2015), read by Weldon Hunter
Elise Partridge (1958 - 2015), read by Barbara Nickel
Jamie Reid (1941 - 2015), read by Wayde Compton
Kabir (1398? - 1448?), read by Kate Braid
Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945), read by Alban Goulden
July 9th, 2017, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919 - 2004), read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
bpNichol (1944 - 1988), read by Mallory Tater
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), read by Diane Tucker
James Tate (1943 - 2015), read by Shaun Robinson
Miriam Waddington (1917 - 2004), read by Selina Boan
May 14, 2017, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Daniel Jones (1959 - 1994), read by Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Kenneth Koch (1925 - 2002), read by Kayla Czaga
Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974), read by Jami Macarty
M. Vasalis (1909 - 1998), read by Christopher Levenson
James Wright (1927 - 1980), read by Curtis LeBlanc
March 12th, 2017, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979), read by Carole Glasser Langille
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889), read by Bill New
Leonard Cohen (1934 - 2016), read by Jennifer Zilm
Jim Harrison (1937 - 2016), read by Nora Gould
Georg Heym (1887 - 1912), read by Melanie Kage
January 8th, 2017, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), read by Steven Brown
Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (1963 - 2008), read by Cecily Nicholson
Egill Skallagrímsson (904-955), read by Emily Osborne
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), read by Kim Fu
November 13th, 2016, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Aloysius Bertrand (1807 - 1841), read by Richard Therrien
Pat Lowther (1935 - 1975), read by Christine Lowther
Josephine Miles (1911 - 1985), read by George Stanley
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), read by D.N. Simmers
Special WORD Reading: September 25th, 2016, 4:30-5:00 PM - Poetry Tent, VPL Library Square, Vancouver
Sveva Caetani (1917 - 1994), read by Daphne Marlatt
Jamie Reid (1941 - 2015), read by Wayde Compton
James Schuyler (1923 - 1991), read by Raoul Fernandes
September 11th, 2016, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver (Poems from the Middle East)
John Asfour (1945 - 2014), read by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Mahmoud Darwish (1942 - 2008), read by Rahat Kurd
Hafez (1325 - 1390), read by Nina Mosall
Nizar Qabanni (1923 - 1998), read by Ray McGinnis
Rumi (1207 - 1273), read by E.D. Blodgett
July 10th, 2016, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), read by Chelene Knight
H.D. (1886 - 1961), read by Adèle Barclay
Weldon Kees (1914 - 1955), read by Matthew Walsh
Christopher Smart (1722 - 1771), read by Kevin Spenst
CD Wright (1949 - 2016), read by Cathy Stonehouse
May 8th, 2016, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), read by Diane Tucker
Robert Kroetsch (1927 - 2011), read by Adrienne Gruber
Dorothy Livesay (1909 - 1996), read by Leanne Boschmann
Claude McKay (1889 - 1948), read by Kevan Cameron
Francisco Ruiz Udiel (1977 - 2010), read by Juliane Okot Bitek
March 13th, 2016, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), read by Susan MacRae
Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913), read by Joy Thierry Llewellyn
Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678), read by Christopher Levenson
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), read by Ken Klonsky
January 10th, 2016, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Robert Creeley (1926 - 2005), read by Mariner Janes
Sakutaro Hariwara (1886 - 1942), read by Sheryda Warrener
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), read by Sheryl MacKay
C.K. Williams (1936 - 2015), read by Raoul Fernandes
November 8th, 2015, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849), read by Susan McCaslin
Earle Birney (1904 - 1995), read by Kate Braid
Dan Pagis (1930 - 1986), read by Barbara Pelman
Special WORD Reading: September 27th, 4:30-5:00 PM - Poetry Tent, VPL Library Square, Vancouver
Maya Angelou (1928 - 2014), read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
PK Page (1916 - 2010), read by Sandy Shreve
John Updike (1932 - 2009), read by Evelyn Lau
September 13th, 2015, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Milton Acorn (1923-1986), read by Michael Lockett
Philip Levine (1928 - 2015), read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Don Marquis (1878 - 1937), read by Matt Whiteman
Tomas Tranströmer (1931 - 2015), read by Jeff Steudel
July 12th, 2015, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
ee cummings (1894-1962), read by DN Simmers
Lauris Edmond (1924 - 2000), read by Christine Hayvice
John Keats (1795 - 1821), read by Matthew Henley
Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977), read by Christopher Levenson
PK Page (1916 - 2010), read by Ruth Daniell
May 10th, 2015, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Frances Horovitz (1938 - 1983), read by Alan Hill
Maxine Kumin (1925 - 2014), read by Rhona McAdam
Grace Paley (1922 - 2007), read by Martha Roth
Lorraine Vernon (1921 - 2004), read by Heidi Greco
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), read by Graham Good
March 8th, 2015, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Simin Behbahani (1927 - 2014), read by Alice Major
Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992), read by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972), read by Karen Solie
Lorine Niedecker (1903 - 1970), read by Sarah de Leeuw
January 11th, 2015, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Catullus (84 - 54 BC), read by Sugar Le Fae
Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985), read by Steven Brown
Galway Kinnell (1927 - 2014), read by Diane Tucker
Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918), read by Kevin Spenst
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), read by Daniel Cowper
November 9th, 2014, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver (Poems of War and Peace)
Keith Douglas (1920 - 1944), read by Anne Fletcher
Denise Levertov (1923 - 1997), read by Rachel Rose
Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918), read by E.D. Blodgett
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967), read by Miranda Pearson
September 14th, 2014, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Don Bailey (1942 - 2003), read by Shannon Rayne
Hayden Carruth (1921 - 2008), read by Susan MacRae
Celia Dropkin (1887 - 1956), read by Faith Jones
Zbigniew Herbert (1924 - 1998), read by Zoe Landale
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), read by Kayla Czaga
July 13th, 2014, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Hart Crane (1899 - 1932), read by Mariner Janes
Norman MacCaig (1910 - 1996), read by Christopher Levenson
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), read by Jennica Harper
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), read by Jeff Steudel
George Whipple (1927 - 2014), read by Eileen Kernaghan
May 11th, 2014, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Louis Aragon (1897 - 1982), read by Adrienne Drobnies
James Dickey (1923 - 1997), read by RC Weslowski
Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997), read by Jordan Abel
Rachel Korn (1898 - 1982), read by Martha Roth
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), read by Diane Tucker
March 9th, 2014, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Rosario Castellanos (1925 - 1974), read by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013), read by Jane Munro
Anne Marriott (1913 - 1997), read by Heidi Greco
N/A, read by Christine Leclerc
Lew Welch (1926 - 1971), read by Warren Dean Fulton
January 12th, 2014, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), read by Russell Thornton
Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), read by Jen Currin
D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930), read by Miranda Pearson
November 10th, 2013, 3-5 PM - VPL Central Branch, Vancouver
Medley of War Poets, read by Christopher Levenson
Kofi Awoonor (1935 - 2013), read by Leslie Timmins
John Donne (1572 - 1631), read by Ken Klonsky
Anna Świrszczyńska (1909 - 1984), read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), read by Charles Carroll
September 8th, 2013, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
John Berryman (1914 - 1972), read by Kevin Spenst
Anne Hebert (1916 - 2000), read by Thuong Vuong-Riddick
Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 1957), read by Steven Brown
William Matthews (1942 - 1997), read by Rhea Tregebov
Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968), read by Sheila Rosen
July 14th, 2013, 3-4:30 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Gerrit Achterberg (1905-1962), read by Christopher Levenson
Ingeborg Bachman (1926-1973), read by Cathy Stonehouse
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), read by Joanne Arnott
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), read by Dvora Levin
May 19th, 2013, 3-4:30 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Robert Frost (1874-1963), read by Danny Peart
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), read by Elizabeth Bachinsky
Rumi (1207-1273), read by Kate Braid
May Sarton (1912-1995), read by Elsie Neufeld
March 10th, 2013, 3-4:30 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Jack Gilbert (1925-2012), read by Rob Taylor
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995), read by Bren Simmers
PK Page (1916-2010), read by The Collective
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), read by Aislinn Hunter
January 13th, 2013, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), read by Diane Tucker
Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979), read by Martha Roth
Kenneth Rexroth (1905 - 1982), read by Dennis Bolen
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), read by Betsy Warland
Many poets, read by Robert Donat (1905 - 1958), as shared by his son, Brian Donat
November 11th, 2012, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Robin Blaser (1925 - 2009), read by Daniel Zomparelli
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), read by Susan McCaslin
Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980), read by Renee Saklikar
Glyn Hughes (1935 - 2011), read by Pam Galloway
Roy Kiyooka (1926 - 1994), read by Wayde Compton
September 9th, 2012, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973), read by Christopher Levenson
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), read by E.D. Blodgett
Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), read by Elena E. Johnson
Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965), read by Elise Partridge
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), read by Jamie Reid
July 8th, 2012, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998), read by Kate Braid
Octavio Paz (1914 - 1998), read by George McWhirter
Wisława Szymborska (1923 - 2012), read by Daniela Elza
Alden Nowlan (1933 - 1983), read by Ken Klonsky
Bronwen Wallace (1945 - 1989), read by Hal Wake
May 13th, 2012, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Loren Eiseley (1907 - 1977), read by Catherine Owen
Hanshan (712 - 793?), read by Lilija Valis
David Lerner (1951 - 1997), read by Chris Gilpin
Larry Levis (1946 - 1996), read by Rob Taylor
John Updike (1932 - 2009), read by Evelyn Lau
March 11th, 2012, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Irving Layton 100th Birthday Party
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Adrienne Drobnies
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Penny Goldsmith
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Heidi Greco
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Weldon Hunter
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Christopher Levenson
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Sandy Shreve
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Rob Taylor
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Russell Thornton
Irving Layton (1912 - 2006), read by Diane Tucker
January 8th, 2012, 3-5 PM - Project Space, Vancouver
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), read by David Zieroth
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), read by Diane Tucker
Stevie Smith (1902 - 1971), read by Miranda Pearson
Jack Spicer (1925 - 1965), read by Garry Thomas Morse
Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917), read by John Donlan
November 20th, 2011 - Project Space, Vancouver
Arthur Hugh Clough, read by Christopher Levenson
Ronald Johnson, read by Sonnet L'Abbé
Muriel Rukeyser, read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Frank Stanford, read by Raoul Fernandes
César Vallejo, read by Russell Thornton
January 24th, 2010 - The Café for Contemporary Art, North Vancouver
Charles Bruce, read by Sandy Shreve
Nazim Hikmet, read by Kate Braid
Edwin Muir, read by Christopher Levenson
Al Purdy, read by Rob Taylor
R.S. Thomas, read by Russell Thornton
October 18th, 2009 - The Café for Contemporary Art, North Vancouver
John Keats, read by Harvey de Roo
Gwendolyn MacEwen, read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
Francis Ponge, read by Marguerite Pigeon
George Trakl, read by Richard Therrien
William Carlos Williams, read by Jamie Reid
February 15th, 2008 - Upstart Crow Books, North Vancouver
Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Elizabeth Bachinsky
Robinson Jeffers, read by Christopher Levenson
Gwendolyn MacEwen, read by Sandy Shreve
Pablo Neruda, read by Fran Bourassa
Sylvia Plath, read by Diane Tucker
October 12th, 2007 - Upstart Crow Books, North Vancouver
Raymond Carver, read by Rhea Tregebov
Denise Levertov, read by Susan McCaslin
Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, read by Richard Therrien
William Stafford, read by David Zieroth
William Butler Yeats, read by Harvey de Roo
May 25th, 2007 - Upstart Crow Books, North Vancouver
W.S. Graham, read by Cathy Stonehouse
George Johnston, read by Harvey de Roo
Irving Layton, read by Russell Thornton
John Newlove, read by David Zieroth
Bronwen Wallace, read by Fiona Tinwei Lam
