Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome will present a double reading at Wheatberries Bakery and Bistro in Gibsons on Friday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m.
Canada Council for the Arts is sponsoring this reading that is free to attend.
The following afternoon, Saturday, Jan. 22, from 1 to 4 p.m., Cran and Jerome will lead a poetry workshop in the Gibsons Public Library conference room.
This workshop will polish your writing skills and inspire you to head into new poetic directions. Come prepared to begin four to six new poems in three hours. After the generative session, presenters will talk about how to transform your new material into poems and discuss strategies for revision and improving as a poet. The workshop is $50. To register, call 604-886-8834.
Cran and Jerome's first book of non-fiction, Hope In Shadows: Stories and Photographs from Van-couver's Downtown Eastside, won the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award and was short-listed for a BC Book Prize.
Cran is the Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver. He is a contributing editor at Geist magazine and a frequent host at the Vancouver Writers Festival, as well as at last summer's Festival of the Written Arts in Sechelt. For many years, he was the publisher of Smoking Lung Press. His poetry book, The Good Life, was published by Nightwood Editions.
Jerome's first book of poems, Red Nest, published by Nightwood Editions, was nominated for the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and won the 2009 ReLit Award for poetry. She teaches literature at the University of British Columbia and poetry to kids at inner-city schools in Vancouver and runs workshops.
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