Inaugural Community Episode (2025) Featuring: Jeremy Loveday, Zoe Dickinson, Tracy Wai de Boer & Lorne Daniel. Listen now on all major platforms! www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com/2466740/epis...

Welcome to the Inaugural Community Episode of The Poet Laureate Podcast, featuring: @lornedaniel.Bsky.social @zoeidadickinson.bksy.social Jeremy Loveday, & Tracy Wai de Boer. Recorded live at Haus of Owl Creation Lab, this episode celebrates community & the power of shared voice.

Episode Eight: Joanna Streetly | Deep Time, Transformation, and the Ethics of Place. Joanna Streetly, poet, memoirist, and the inaugural Poet Laureate of Tofino, explores the intersections of deep time, personal grief, and the fluid nature of transformation. @joannastreetly.bsky.social

Episode Eight with Joanna Streetly is generously supported by Mermaid Tales Bookshop. A charming independent bookstore in Tofino, BC, Mermaid Tales is known for its carefully curated collection of novels, local interest reads, and literary treasures.

Episode Eight: Joanna Streetly | Deep Time, Transformation, and the Ethics of Place Joanna Streetly, inaugural Poet Laureate of Tofino. LISTEN NOW on all major platforms.

In the podcast studio @haus.of.owl with @joannastreetly.bsky.social inaugural Poet Laureate of Tofino, BC. Episode Eight is supported by Mermaid Tales Bookstore!

In this seventh episode, Kyeren Regehr welcomes Yvonne Blomer—poet, editor, and the fourth Poet Laureate of Victoria. This episode is generously supported by Bolen Books, independently owned and operated by the Bolen family since 1975. @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social

In this seventh episode, Kyeren Regehr welcomes Yvonne Blomer—poet, editor, and the fourth Poet Laureate of Victoria. This episode is generously supported by Bolen Books, independently owned and operated by the Bolen family since 1975. @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social

In this seventh episode, Kyeren Regehr welcomes Yvonne Blomer—poet, editor, and the fourth Poet Laureate of Victoria. @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social This episode is generously supported by Bolen Books! Independently owned and operated by women of the Bolen family since 1975.

In studio with @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social recording Episode Seven of The Poet Laureate Podcast!

Episode Seven features Yvonne Blomer, 4th Poet Laureate of Victoria BC. @yvonneblomerwrites.bsky.social This episode is generously sponsored by Bolen Books and recorded in-studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab. Launching Oct 22nd!

The inaugural Community Episode of the podcast at Haus of Owl Creation Lab. Poets @zoeidadickinson.bsky.social, Lorne Daniel, Tracy Wai de Boer and Jeremy Loveday, all read poems and talk about their new books! Launching in December. :)

"Drew, how do we practice listening to the voice of inspiration?" Listen to Episode Six of The Poet Laureate Podcast, featuring Drew Lavigne, poet laureate of Moncton, NB.

Listen now on all major platforms! Episode Six of The Poet Laureate Podcast featuring Drew Lavigne, poet laureate of Moncton NB is live! This episode is generously sponsored by @fiddlehd.bsky.social: Atlantic Canada’s international literary journal.

Episode Six of The Poet Laureate Podcast featuring Drew Lavigne is supported by The Fiddlehead—Atlantic Canada’s international literary journal. @fiddlehd.bsky.social

Episode Six of The Poet Laureate Podcast features Drew Lavigne, the Poet Laureate of Moncton, New Brunswick! The episode is generously sponsored by @thefiddleheadca

At Haus of Owl Creation Lab recording the next podcast episode!

"Fiona, would you please tell us about a time poetry offered healing?"

Episode 5 featuring Fiona Tinwei Lam is sponsored by @thetyee.ca. The Tyee is British Columbia’s award‑winning non-profit, reader‑supported news magazine. Episode 5 is also sponsored by @canadianlit.bsky.social

"Fiona, how does making a poem into a film tap into the poem's unconscious resonance?"

Episode 5 featuring Fiona Tinwei Lam is generously sponsored by @canadianlit.bsky.social, the leading scholarly journal for studies focused on literary and cultural objects produced in or about the lands known as Canada. Episode Five is also sponsored by @thetyee.ca

Happy Friday, everyone! We're delighted to have sponsored the most recent episode of The Poet Laureate Podcast. In this episode, Kyeren Regehr, the 7th Poet Laureate of Victoria, is joined by Fiona Tinwei Lam, who served as Vancouver's Poet Laureate from 2022-2024. @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social

In studio @haus.of.owl with Fiona Tinwei Lam, Vancouver's Poet Laureate 2022-2024. Episode Five is generously sponsored by @canlitjournal and @thetyee, and is launching August 22nd! The Poet Laureate Podcast is recorded on Lekwungen Homelands.

"Steven, how do poets respond to disturbing times?"

In this fourth episode, Kyeren Regehr welcomes Steven Ross Smith— poet, mentor, arts leader, and former Poet Laureate of Banff. One of Canada’s great poetic experimenters, Steven speaks about improvisation and constraint, the sonic body of the poem, and his long-running Flutter Tongue series.

Episode Four is kindly supported by Sage Hill Writing, one of Canada’s leading providers of learning opportunities for professional and emerging creative writers. At Sage Hill, your writing matters. Learn more at sagehillwriting.ca.

In the podcast studio with phenomenal sound & performance poet, Steven Ross Smith, poet laureate of Banff, 2018-21 (also the Founding Director of Sage Hill Writing Experience & Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre. Episode Four is generously sponsored by @sagehillwriting Coming Soon!

John Barton: What draws you to form? Listen to Episode Three, generously sponsored by The Malahat Review. You can support this iconic Canadian literary journal by subscribing at malahatreview.ca.

John Barton: What's the measure of a poem's success? Listen to Episode Three on all major platforms--generously sponsored by The Malahat Review.

John Barton—poet, editor, essayist & the fifth Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC. With unflinching grace & poetic precision, John speaks to the evolution of queer poetics in Canada, the intimate distances of influence & his evolving relationship with formal constraint.

Loved walking into @haus.of.owl and seeing The Poet Laureate Podcast written on the studio whiteboard! Jordan and his team make everyone feel so welcome and supported. Their podcast studio is open for bookings!

A cornerstone of Canadian letters since 1967, The Malahat Review is published quarterly and showcases exceptional contemporary literary writing from Canada and beyond. The journal has been a vital space for literary excellence and discovery for nearly six decades. Subscriptions: malahatreview.ca.

In the podcast studio @haus.of.owl with the inimitable John Barton, first queer male poet laureate of Victoria--HAPPY PRIDE! This episode is generously sponsored by The Malahat Review--you can support this iconic literary journal at www.malahatreview.ca

Episode Three arriving soon!! John Barton, 5th Poet Laureate of Victoria, first queer male poet laureate of the city!

Episode Two: the sensational Hollay Ghadery! Listen to the full episode on all major platforms. Generously sponsored by Munro's Books Victoria. Recorded in studio at Haus of Owl: Creation Lab on lək̓ʷəŋən homelands. Hollay.bsky.social

Episode Two: Hollay Ghadery! Listen on all major platforms. ❤️

EPISODE TWO! Iranian-Canadian poet & multi-genre writer @hollay.bsky.social, inaugural Poet Laureate of Scugog Township, who speaks with deep honesty & intelligence about poetry as a practice of receptivity, form as a map, & writing as a means of reclaiming enchantment. Sponsored by Munro's Books!

Haus of Owl: supporting artists to make the best work of their careers. @haus.of.owl

Episode Two of The Poet Laureate Podcast is supported by the generous spirit of Munro’s Books (shipping Canada-wide and Internationally). A literary landmark in downtown Victoria, Munro’s has been a sanctuary for readers and writers alike for over sixty years. munrosbooks.com

In studio @haus.of.owl with @hollayghadery! Episode Two ❤️

Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...

"What do you need in order to write poetry...?" Lorri Neilsen Glenn talks about poetry as a way to think, to listen and to find connection across time and experience. EPISODE ONE: just under 25 mins of beauty and respite available on all major platforms: www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com/2466740

www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com/2466740 LIVE NOW!! Please FOLLOW and listen. 💚

Jordan Dack working his magic on The Poet Laureate Podcast at Haus of Owl: Creation Lab. The Haus of Owl crew are talented professionals who truly love what they do, and also happen to be deeply kind humans.

The Poet Laureate Podcast is recorded in studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab in downtown Victoria--an inspiring and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds.

In the podcast studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab with Lorri Neilsen Glenn @lorri.bsky.social --Episode One is in progress!

Episode One of The Poet Laureate Podcast is supported by the generous spirit of Munro’s Books, a literary landmark in downtown Victoria. Books by our guest poets are available at munrosbooks.com for international shipping, or can be ordered at the iconic downtown Victoria storefront.

Intro music preview--just a snippet! Recorded at Haus of Owl: Creation Lab by Jordan Dack. Original music by the talented Chris Regehr.

EPISODE ONE COMING SOON: Lorri Neilsen Glenn was the first Métis Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is a Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is the author and/or contributing editor of fifteen titles of poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly works.

More about host, Kyeren Regehr, @byallmeanswrite, at kyerenregehr.ca, and at Planet Earth Poetry. #canadianpoet #poetlaureate