In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Olive Reading Series and Edmonton Poetry Festival present a reading with Catherine Owen, Sharon Thesen, and the Horizons Writers Circle, a program coordinated by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
This marks the first reading in Edmonton with Catherine Owen and her brand new collection, Moving to Delilah.
WHO: Catherine Owen, Sharon Thesen, and the Horizons Writers Circle
WHAT: A reading presented by the Olive Reading Series and Edmonton Poetry Festival
WHEN: Wednesday, April 24 at 7 pm
WHERE: Rooster Kitchen & Bar, 10732 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 6P4
WHY: For literature!
See the Facebook event for more details.
ABOUT CATHERINE OWEN
Catherine Owen, from Vancouver, BC, is the author of fifteen collections of poetry and prose. Her work has won and been nominated for awards and has been toured across Canada 12 times. She edits, hosts the series 94th Street Trobairitz, and runs the podcast Ms. Lyric’s Poetry Outlaws from her home in Edmonton, AB. She’s had a poem selected to be anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2025.
ABOUT SHARON THESEN
A Cascadian poet, writer, editor and critic, Sharon’s eleven books/chapbooks include The Good Bacteria, Oyama Pink Shale and The Receiver. She is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. She edited two editions of The New Long Poem Anthology, two editions of Charles Olson’s correspondence with book designer Frances Boldereff, and a Governor General’s Award–winning selected poems of Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree. While teaching English and Creative Writing at Capilano College (now University), she held various editor positions at The Capilano Review, and while teaching at UBC Okanagan, co-edited, with Nancy Holmes, Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment. She is currently is a contributing editor to Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. Sharon’s poetry workshops (Pinecone Writing Workshops) are attended by Okanagan writers and provide a space for fresh engagements with poetics. Recent writing includes an introduction to Anansi’s “A-list” reprinting of Paulette Jiles’s Waterloo Express and a review of Stephen Collis’s Almost Islands for BC BookLook, a collaborative chapbook with Penn Kemp (P.S., KAL Press 2020), numerous blurbs and endorsements, the odd magazine publication of a poem or two. She is currently working on a prose manuscript. Thesen lives in Winfield, BC.
ABOUT THE HORIZONS WRITERS CIRCLE
The Horizons Writers Circle is a Writers’ Guild of Alberta program that provides support and mentorship for writers within the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) community, ESL, and underrepresented writers who live in Edmonton and are at the beginning of their literary journey.