July 9th , 2025
Pandora's Collective Presents
TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON
Featured Poets:
Arleen Paré
Kristina Bresnen
Al Rempel
and open mic
Hosted by: Daniela Elza and Natasha Boškić
Time: 6:00 - 7:50 pm
Location: Britannia Library, 1661 Napier St, Vancouver
Arleen Paré is a writer with nine collections of poetry, based in Victoria, BC. She has been short-listed for the BC Dorothy Livesay BC Award for Poetry and has won the American Golden Crown Award for Poetry, the Victoria Butler Book Prize, a CBC Bookie Award, and a Governor Generals’ Award for Poetry.
Kristina Bresnen's poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, and the Literary Review of Canada, among other places. Her first book of poetry, Pascal's Fire, came out with Bibiolasis in 2023. She is currently working on a second manuscript of poems and fiddling with essays. She is from Montreal and now lives in Vancouver..
Al Rempel’s books of poetry are Undiscovered Country, This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For, and Understories, along with four chapbooks: Behind the Bladed Green, Deerness, Four Neat Holes, and The Picket Fence Diaries. His poems have also appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently, the Cascadia Field Guide and Sweetwater: Poems for the Watersheds. Rempel has collaborated in the creation of a number of video poems with other artists; We Have Become Children and I’ve In the Rain were screened at film festivals in North America, and Sky Canoe was screened in North America as well as internationally at festivals in Dublin and Bristol. Some of Rempel's poems have been translated into Italian and Spanish. Rempel was awarded the Prince George Regional Arts and Culture Award for poetry in 2012 and shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell award for excellence in Poetry in 2013. His poems have been included twice in the Poetry in Transit project in Vancouver and shortlisted in 2015 for Arc’s Poem of the Year. In conjunction with the Federation of British Columbia Writers, he has led a series of online poetry workshops under the banner of Interior Dialogues. More information can be found at his website: www.alrempel.com.
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