Join us February 19th from 7-9 pm for Word Play with Alan Hill at təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre! Free! Just bring a pen, paper and your readiness for an engaging prompt.

Poetry and Art Salon Jan 25 @ 2:00 - 4:00 pm Anvil Centre, Room 417 Join Janet Kvammen, Poet Laureate of New Westminster, for a free afternoon of poetry readings, art “Show & Tell” chats & more! Guests: Poet Jónína Kirton Artist Nancy Whiteside Theme: Winter Renewal, Reflection & the Natural World

🗞️ TOMORROW! Here are some of the locations where you can get the newspaper on Jan. 22, 2026: Port Moody Rec Save On Foods Coquitlam Library Hyde Creek Rec Centre Terry Fox Library Burnaby rec centres Queensborough Community Centre təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic Centre Moody Park Arena

Compact Disc newpoetry.ca/2026/01/19/c...

Vancouver! Get your butts over to UBC to take in Kayla Czaga reading her brilliant new book Midway (@houseofanansi.bsky.social) *in its entirety*! Whole Cloth Reading Series, January 28th, 5 PM, Green College.

Congratulations to Garry Gottfriedson for winning the @rclas.bsky.social 12th Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry! As judge Cecily Nicholson noted, 'The Flesh of Ice...is grounded in ongoing contributions to Secwépemc language, sovereignty, and community.'

Garry Gottfriedson is the winner of the 2025 Fred Cogswell Award. Congratulations to Garry, as well as Kayla Czaga (2nd place) and Barbara Tran (3rd Place)! Deep gratitude to all who entered and especially our esteemed judge Cecily Nicholson. Details: rclas.com/2025-fred-co...

Excited to be reading again with poet laureates Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social and Elee Kraljii Gardiner @eleekg.bsky.social Wed Jan 21 at the Britannia Library in Vancouver! Starts at 6pm, but arrive for a good seat. There will be a few spots on Open Mic Thanks to Twisted Poets!

Last few days to join this online poetry class I teach, so please consider and/or share with peers that might be interested! The class needs at least one more student to run 🤞

JANUARY 25, 2-4pm, ANVIL CENTRE | STUDIO 417 Poetry & Art Salon with Janet Kvammen, Poet Jónína Kirton & Artist Nancy Whiteside. Poetry readings, art “Show & Tell” chats. Come listen, share & connect. Free, drop-in. @rclas.bsky.social @newwestminster.bsky.social

Happy new year, everyone! Reminder that our first Dead Poets reading of the year is this Sunday, Jan. 11th. Featuring these amazing poets: Joseph Dandurand, Heidi Greco, Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Christopher Levenson. Hope to see you there! 3 p.m., Outsiders and Others gallery.

Still trying to figure out Substack but I hope to post more in 2026. For now, a little year in review and a poem. open.substack.com/pub/planetja...

Have Freshet News in your cafe, restaurant or store. Email [email protected] to get a bundle of our inaugural newspapers dropped off in #Newwest #Burnaby #Coquitlam #PortCoquitlam #Portmoody #Anmore #Belcarra on Thursday, Dec. 18 #localnewsmatters #news #journalism

Here’s where you can pick up the first Freshet newspaper in New West: Zesty Lemon Clothing Yum Donuts New West City Hall Queensborough CC təməsew̓txʷ CC Moody Park Arena New West Public Library Tourism New West Goodway’s Specialty Foods Groove Cat Books and Records Greens and Beans Deli #newwest

Congratulations, Rob!!

Congratulations to all the poets on our longlist! Thank you to everyone who submitted. SOOOOO many incredible books! #CogswellAward

We are pleased to announce the longlist for the 12th Annual Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence in Poetry. Congratulations to the amazing poets on the list!

See you there!

The beautiful RCLAS 2025 Special Winter Edition of Wordplay at Work is now available free for download. It features the winners and runners up of the 2025 Write On! Contest. Enjoy for some winter reading! rclas.com/2025-write-o...

Read the winning WRITE ON CONTEST stories and poems here: rclas.com/2025-write-o... @rclas.bsky.social

Join our annual Christmas Mingle Wed. December 10th Drop in anytime between 6pm to 9pm @ Centennial Lodge in Queens Park Snacks/Door prizes/Music More info on FB: www.facebook.com/events/14892...

Planet Earth Poetry's 30 for 30 fundraiser link- please share and help keep Western Canada's longest running poetry series going for another 30 years (or more!)! 💟📕 gofund.me/4ceb9c262 @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social

Visual Dialogue on Death and Dying Art exhibition October 30 - November 27 Two Locations: Century House Art Gallery, Anvil Community Gallery That is my heart at Anvil Centre :) anvilcentre.com/our-events/v... #newwest #iheartnewwest #anvilcentre #newwesthospice #newwestartists #artsnewwest

Looking forward to this! Plus, Artist Clarissa Banos will also join us with her painting A Coffee Date with Death which inspired me to write a poem.

Wonderful to see @janetkvammen.bsky.social reading at the ceremony.

Looking forward to this! Plus, Artist Clarissa Banos will also join us with her painting A Coffee Date with Death which inspired me to write a poem.

Happy to have 3 artworks accepted into the “Visual Dialogue on Death and Dying, Grief & Loss” exhibit. Century House Nov 4 Tue eve 7pm- opening with judges and art talk. Two venues- Century House and Anvil Centre. 30% of sales to New West Hospice society. #NewWest #NewWestArtists #hospice

Tonight!

Join us @ the Listening Post (Hastings & Main) November 6th @ 6pm in celebration of Muriel Marjorie, poet, activist, and actor well known in the DTES for the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize readings & open mic, plus launch of this year’s Fire from the Heart chapbook: www.heartofthecityfestival.com

Hope to see you on Wed evening in #NewWest for this fun Halloween event! Haunted History BC have some true ghost stories to share! Some close to home, too! JG Chayko will share a spooky tale and we will have a poetry open mic. #RCLAS #halloween #ghosts #poetry #tales

Hope to see you on Wed evening in #NewWest for this fun Halloween event! Haunted History BC have some true ghost stories to share! Some close to home, too! JG Chayko will share a spooky tale and we will have a poetry open mic. #RCLAS #halloween #ghosts #poetry #tales

Maybe we will see you today at Anvil Centre starting at 2pm! #NewWest #nwpoetlaureate #IHeartNewWest #poetryandArt

Hey, hope you can check out my art show at the New Westminster Public Library! On now until the end of October. #NewWest #artshow #newwestartists #artsnw

An oasis has sprung in our news desert! #NewWest www.freshetnews.ca/a-new-beginn...

WOW Thank you so much!!!!! Amazing!

Poetry+Art Salon with Janet Kvammen SUNDAY OCT 19 from 2:00-4:00 pm Location: Anvil Centre, Rm 417 777 Columbia St New Westminster Featuring Cynthia Sharp & Laura Davis These are free, informal sharing & chat sessions. Come join the conversation!

Hey, hope you can check out my art show at the New Westminster Public Library! On now until the end of October. #NewWest #artshow #newwestartists #artsnw

Last day to submit! newwestartists.com/calls-to-art...

AIDAN CHAFE is a poet and educator. His poems have appeared in CV2, EVENT, The Fiddlehead and PRISM international. He lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver). Find two of Chafe's poems in EVENT 54/2: www.eventmagazine.ca/product/even...

Poets Wanted: Dead or Alive, Open Mic & Tellers of Short Tales feat. Gina Armstrong & Victoria Vancek of “Haunted History BC” & JG Chayko with a spooky short story. Hosts: Chelsea Comeau & Janet Kvammen CENTENNIAL LODGE, Queen’s Park Wed, OCT 29, 7-9pm Free! Costume Contest! Prizes! rclas.com

Thank you! Ode to the Pattullo event Oct 5. Special guests included Alan Hill, Damarys Sepulveda. Jessica Lee McMillan, Alan Girling, Julia Schoennagel, Jennifer Getsinger, Karen McLaughlin Freeborn. Thank you to our supportive audience! #NewWestCulturalCrawl #BCCultureDays @rclas.bsky.social

Whoa, what a whirlwind weekend! Wheee! Holy Wowzers, New West Cultural Crawl!

Have a few of these titles on order (Joseph Dandurand, Randy Lundy) and one to pick up: if: prey, then: huntress by @christinashah.bsky.social. Congratulations! www.cbc.ca/books/34-wor...

Ode to the Pattullo Bridge: Poetry Reading Salon with @janetkvammen.bsky.social Sun, Oct 5, 1:00PM - 2:00PM Anvil Centre New Westminster Free!