Wax Poetic: Poetry From Canada (podcast)

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Clifton Joseph30:55

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Candian+Antiguan Dub Poet Legend, Clifton Joseph dropped by to share some perspective on the poetry scene of today and read some poems ahead of his Pandora's Collective reading in West Vancouver.

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Fiona Tinwei Lam and Jane Silcott30:35

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Fiona and Jane visit us to talk about the anthology they co edited, Love Me True: The Ins and Out and Ups and Downs of Marriage.

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Matea Kulić30:42

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Experimental writer Matea Kulić joins co-hosts Pamela Bentley and Kevin Spenst to discuss poetry warm-ups, the different ways in which poetry can be performed, and the poetic value of being a prolific email writer.

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Jonina Lyn Kirton30:42

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Jonina Lynn Kirton joins Pam and RC to talk about the Growing Room Festival as well as her recent trip to Iceland to read poetry and meet long lost relatives.

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Ian Williams30:30

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UBC Professor, Ian Williams joins us to read some poems and talk about tennis and other things

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Juliane Okot Bitek30:10

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Juliane Okot Bitek joins Pam and Kevin to share some poems and talk about the question "Where are you from?"

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Brandon Wint32:06

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Brandon Wint joins co-hosts Kevin Spenst and Pamela Bentley to talk about love, his favourite poets, performing poems, his CD Infinite Mercies, how being a lover is like being a poet, and more.

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Beni Xiao30:11

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Beni Xiao joins Kevin Spents and RC Weslowski to read from Beni's new chapbook "Bad Egg" and to discuss what that means among other things.

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Cornelia Hoogland30:26

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Just prior to their reading at Twisted Poets, Cornelia Hoogland joined Pam Bentley and Kevin Spenst to talk about the Trailer Park Elegies.

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Wax Poetic Jan 17 2018 featuring the CD Tickle Trunk30:49

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Pam, Kevin and RC are all in studio to share some audio out of the CD Tickle Trunk including Bill Bissett, Ronnie Dean Harris, Janet Marie Rogers, Joanne Arnott and the Word Burglars

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Lara Varesi31:37

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Burnaby Writer's Society President, Lara Varesi joins us to recap 2017, share some poems and talk about what's coming up of the Society in 2018.

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Johnny MacRae27:04

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Nationally known spoken word poet, Johnny MacRae joins to talk about his CD Mouth Music and to promote his feature at UBC Slam.

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Emma Field31:06

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2017 Vancouver Youth Poetry Slam Grand Slam Champion, Emma Field is our guest to talk about persona poems and trickster energy ahead of her feature at the youth poetry slam.

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Isaac Bond31:17

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Isaac Bond freshly arrived from Saskatoon, now living in Vancouver, shares his spoken word poetry, and chats with RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley about astronomy, hip-hop, beats, hosting, and doing poetry in schools.

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Ellie Sawatzky30:20

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Ellie Sawatzky joins co-hosts Pamela Bentley and RC Weslowski to share poems, talk about being an artist in Vancouver, her Frog Hollow Press shortlisted chapbook "Rhinocerotic" coming out in 2018, publishing, rejection, persistence, rhinos, Burning Man, nannying, and her daily blog of writing prompts, Impromptu, on her website elliesawatsky.com.…

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Nasra Adem32:23

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Nasra Adem, former Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton, Alberta joins co-hosts RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley. Nasra shares some poems and talks with them about rain, sky, workshops, poet laureates, Canada 150, and questioning our own assumptions, roles, and perspectives.

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Marcela Huerta31:21

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Marcela Huerta visits with RC about her new book Tropico ahead of the book launch which took place Nov 23rd at The Paperhound Books

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Mallory Tater and Curtis Leblanc Rahila's Ghost Press31:21

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Mallory Tater and Curtis LeBlanc, founders of the new chapbook press Rahila's Ghost Press tell us about their first crop of books launching November 22. Curtis also reads poems from his own books while Mallory shares some poems from her upcoming This Will Be Good. Kevin Spenst and Pamela Bentley co-hosting.…

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Aislinn Hunter31:33

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Aislinn Hunter joins hosts Kevin Spenst and Pam Bentley to read poems from her book Linger, Still, and chat about residencies, taxidermy, animal memes,Thing theory, and a diversity research student project at Kwantlen.

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Raw Speakhers30:37

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Raw Speakhers, a women's hip-hop freestyle collective, who are performing as part of the Heart of the City Festival, join hosts RC Weslowski and Pamela Bentley, to share their voices, rhymes and rhythms, and talk about their process, experiences and the forming of the collective.

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Yvonne Blomer31:42

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Yvonne Blomer, current Victoria Poet Laureate and editor of the anthology Refugium: Poems for the Pacific, joins Pam Bentley and Kevin Spenst to talk about the book, the process, its title, nature and ecological poetry. She reads poems from Refugium by Jan Zwicky, John Barton, Joe Denham, Misuzu Kaneko, and Brian Campbell.…

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Leyla Josephine32:24

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UK poetry slam champion, Leyla Josephine from Glasgow joins RC and Pam in studio prior to her feature in Victoria to talk about many things, including what to do when feeling "Hopeless."

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Ayanda Lyric Mgoduka30:37

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Ayanda Lyric Mgoduka joins RC and Pam to share her poetry and talk about politics, racism, queens, reconciliation, and love.

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Dana ID Matthews30:59

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Poet, rapper, boxer (with beats and without), Dana ID Matthews joins RC to reveal some secrets about his life through poetry.

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September 27 2017 CD Tickle Trunk30:58

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Pam is away so RC opens the CD Tickle Trunk for some poems by Jive Poetic and Sheri-D Wilson plus we listen to some Hollerin.

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Meharoona Ghani31:17

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Meharoona Ghani joins Kevin Spenst and Pam Bentley to talk about her poems in the collection, The Muslimah Who Fell To Earth, as well as the Art of Listening, TedxEast Van, and more.

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Jaye Simpson33:52

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Jaye Simpson joins us to share some poems and talk about using poetry to address intergenerational trauma and the power of language and words.

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Kevin Gilday31:21

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Kevin Gilday was in town for the Vancouver Fringe Festival and joined us to share some poems and promote his Fringe show "Gigantic Lying Mouth".

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Blair Trewartha31:22

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Visiting from London, Ontario, our guest is Blair Trewartha promoting his book, Easy Fix from Palimpsest Press, and talking about history, the 1911 Timmins fire, and other sources for his poetry, as well as his writing and publishing process.

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Johnny D Trinh31:12

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Johnny Trinh joins us to share his poetry, and talks about family, and the legacy of racism and Asian erasure in Canada, as well as plays and playwriting.

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Larry Nicholson30:31

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Larry Nicholson (Cree) joins RC and Pam to share his poetry and chat about songs, writing and process, Spirit of the Children Society canoe trips, culture, healing, creativity, dreams, being men, and much more. Check out the "audience" participation piece near the end!

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Julia Pileggi29:55

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2017 Vancouver Poetry Slam team member Julia Pileggi joins RC and Pam to read from and talk about her new chapbook, Yours Is This; her website with Sasha Singer-Wilson, www.thesefiveminutes.com; first time touring; writing about family and in Italian; and the Carnival of Words fundraiser.

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CD Tickle Trunk July 26 201731:31

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We move back to our Columbia Street location and we thought it would be fun to highlight some East Van poets: Al Mader, Lucia Misch with Chelsea Johnson, Hilary Peach, Zaccheus Jackson Nyce, and Tanya Evanson.

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Tickle Trunk July 19 2017 with Kevin, RC, & Pam32:08

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All three co-hosts, Kevin Spenst, RC Weslowski, and Pam Bentley, get together for the first time for a Tickle Trunk show with poems Kevin has chosen by Elena Johnson, Catherine Owen, Rob Taylor, Raoul Fernandes, Jonina Kirton; and one by Tony Brown + one by Don McIver chosen by RC, and one by Robert Mirabal chosen by Pam.…

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Christopher Levenson30:07

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Christopher Levenson joins Pam and Kevin to read from and talk about his latest book "A Tattered Coat Upon a Stick."

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Gilles Cyrenne30:20

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Thursday's Writing Collective Poet, Gilles Cyrenne, is our guest, talking about his brand new chapbook, Emerge, and farm life growing up in Saskatchewan.

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Justin Bige30:43

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Our guest today is Tawahum Northern Star Justin Bige, Dene and Cree, activist, poet, Kwantlen student, winner of the Vancouver Story Slam's Bursary, Stand with Kwantlen organizer, with hosts Pam and RC.

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Kagan Goh1:02:00

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Poet Kagan Goh joins, RC to talk about Kagan's new multi media show "Surviving Samsara."

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RC's CD Tickle Trunk28:50

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RC opens up the CD Spoken Word Vault and plays some tracks from Charlie Petch aka Mel Malarkey as well as song poems by Sheri-D Wilson and Soul Coughing.

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Heidi Greco30:24

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Heidi Greco joins RC to chat about Heidi's new book Flightpaths: The Lost Journals of Amelia Earhart (Caitlin Press). Was Amelia a spy? Why did the plane crash? So many questions and so many poems.

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Jude Neale28:35

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Jude Neale joins RC to talk about Jude's new book, Splendid in Its Silence, and doing a book launch in London, England, and her CD with musician Thomas Beckman, Places Beyond. As well, Jude sings a little opera.

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Griffin Tedeschini30:18

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Griffin Tedeschini, poet and spoken word artist, is today's guest with Kevin and Pam as hosts. They talk about many things including sex and love poetry, snorkeling in Hawaii, kayaking in Belcarra, School of Thought, love languages, childhood, etc.

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Geoffrey Nilson30:02

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Kevin and Pam take the reins and chat with Geoffrey Nilson about many things poetic including poems from his chapbook We Have to Watch.

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Erin Dingle31:15

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Canadian Individual Poetry Slam three-time finalist, Erin Dingle, joins us to share poems about the periodic table, nerdiness, baths, mindfulness, changing lightbulbs,and women in CIPS, following the Verses Festival of Words 2017.

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Rabbit Richards29:39

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On tour in BC, Rabbit Richards drops by in between stints performing at Hullabaloo and the Verses Festival of Words.

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Kaie Kellough30:34

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Visiting from Montreal, Kaie Kellough drops by to chat with RC about sound poetry, race, and growing up in Calgary.

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Shazia Hafiz Ramji30:07

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Kevin and Pam chat with Shazia Hafiz Ramji about poems and subjects from her book Prosopopoeia that later won the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

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2017 Verses Festival Preview28:17

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Pam picks a bunch of audio tracks to preview some of the artists performing at the 2017 Verses Festival of Words: Sheri-D Wilson, Mighty Mike McGee, Saul Williams, Khari Wendell McClelland, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

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Matt Miller, AKA Lip Balm29:26

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Matt Miller aka Lip Balm joins R.C. and Pam in studio to talk poetry, stand up comedy, and moving from Toronto to live in Vancouver.

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