Latest Past Events
WORD*LAB featuring M.L. Martin
CO*LAB 9641 102A Ave NW, EdmontonWORD*LAB Featuring: M.L. Martin Plus open mic! When: March 16th, 2023 at 7:30pm Where: CO*LAB - 9641 102A Ave NW, Edmonton Co-presented by: Edmonton Poetry Festival and CO*LAB Funded by: Canadian Heritage A monthly performance poetry experience Pay-What-You-Can at the door Suggested Payment $10 M.L. Martin is an interdisciplinary poet and translator, whose collection of ekphrastic prose poems, Theater of No Mistakes, is available now from Anhinga Press. Their poems appear in Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Evennt Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Interim, Massachusetts Review, PRISM international, and elsewhere. W & E, their experimental translation of the protofeminist Anglo-Saxon poem “Wulf ond Eadwacer” will be published by Action Books in 2025, and aims to recover this radical female text to the feminist and experimental canons to which it belongs. Their translations appear in Arkansas International, Brooklyn Rail In Translation, Black Warrior Review, The Capilano Review, Columbia Journal, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online, The […]
WORD*LAB featuring Emily Riddle
CO*LAB 9641 102A Ave NW, EdmontonWORD*LAB Featuring: Emily Riddle Plus open mic! When: February 16th, 2023 at 7:30pm Where: CO*LAB - 9641 102A Ave NW, Edmonton Co-presented by: Edmonton Poetry Festival and CO*LAB Funded by: Canadian Heritage A monthly performance poetry experience Pay-What-You-Can at the door Suggested Payment $10 Emily Riddle is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. She lives in amiskwaciwâskahikan. A writer, public library worker and researcher, she sits on the board of advisers for the Yellowhead Institute, a First Nations-led think tank. Emily was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize and selected for the 2021 Writers’ Trust of Canada mentorship program. Her writing has been featured in Teen Vogue, The Globe and Mail, Malahat Review, Room Magazine, among others.
WORD*LAB featuring Bänoo Zan
CO*LAB 9641 102A Ave NW, EdmontonWORD*LAB Featuring: Bänoo Zan Plus open mic! When: December 15th, 2022 at 7:30pm Where: CO*LAB - 9641 102A Ave NW, Edmonton Co-presented by: Edmonton Poetry Festival and CO*LAB A monthly performance poetry experience Pay-What-You-Can at the door Suggested Donation $10 Bänoo Zan is a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, with more than 250 published poems and poetry-related pieces as well as three books including Songs of Exile and Letters to My Father. She is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Canada’s most diverse poetry reading and open mic series (inception: 2012), a brave space that bridges the gap between communities of poets from different ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, poetic styles, voices and visions. Bänoo is the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, Canada, Sept 2022-May 2023. Social media links LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram Books Songs of Exile Letters to […]