The Single Onion wraps up its fall season with a reading from four excellent poets: Moni Brar, Kyle Flemmer, Natalie Lim, and Shone Thistle.
WHEN: Thursday, November 20th, 7pm
WHERE: Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW
Streaming: This event will not be available for streaming, but we hope to have it up and running in January (sorry!)
About the Poets:
Born in rural Punjab, Moni Brar comes from a long lineage of illiterate subsistence farmers. She is the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, the winner of The Fiddlehead’s Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She has multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has received poetry awards from Grain, PRISM, Room, CV2, and The Ex-Puritan. She is an alum of Tin House, the Humber School of Writers, and Harvard University.
Kyle Flemmer is a writer, publisher, and digital media artist from Calgary in Treaty 7 territory. In 2014, he founded The Blasted Tree Publishing Company, a small press focused on experimental poetics and visual art. Flemmer’s books include Barcode Poetry, Supergiants, and TzAR: Pixel Art Anthology. His next, The Wiki of Babel, is forthcoming from the University of Calgary Press in 2026.
Natalie Lim is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, BC). She is the winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room magazine’s 2020 Emerging Writer Award, with work published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and elsewhere. She is the author of a chapbook, arrhythmia (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2022)
Shone Thistle (she/they) is an award winning poet, speaker and community connector. In the sport of poetry, they've received perfect scores at the world-famous Nuyorican Poets Café. Their writing can be found in several anthologies, including Mic Check: An Anthology of Canadian Spoken Word Poetry and YYC POP Poetic Portraits of People. They have two children’s books forthcoming, delivered a recent TED Talk on the power of letter writing and poetry to manage grief and loss, and they proudly serve as both the Executive Director of Calgary Queer Arts Society and as Calgary’s 7th Poet Laureate.
The Single Onion takes place the third Thursday of the month, nine times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at www.singleonion.com
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets, the Calgary Arts Development, Inside Out Theatre, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Cafe Gravity, and Shelf Life Books.
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