“A Poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
🌹Doors open @ 6:30pm - event starts at 7pm. 15 minute feature🌹
🎩No cover. Admission by donation. 🎩
🎼All disciplines welcome, including prose.🎼
You are all cordially invited to attend a wondrous event featuring Kim Mannix, a spellbinding poetess who hails from the Paris of the Prairies.
The master of ceremonies will be the bewitching Kathy Fisher.
A prime location for poetry readings, The Kasbar is an exotic lounge with a superb Greek Mediterranean menu and an equally excellent selection of spirits, ale, wine, tea, and coffee.
Under the auspices of the stars, we dare you to partake in an exciting evening of comedy and drama. Come and forge new friendships, or mend old ones anew. But above all, come and sate your sense of adventure - come and have fun.
We will also be holding a mini-food drive to help those in need. A deposit box will be located at the entrance.
🎃🦇Last but not least, in spirit of Halloween, we strongly encourage our attendees to don a cool costume. 🎃🦇
🂡 Kim Mannix (she/her) is a journalist, poet and short fiction writer who lives and creates on Treaty Six territory in Sherwood Park, Alberta. As the current President of the Edmonton Poetry Festival, she is also a member of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, Parkland Poets, League of Canadian Poets and its Parenting Poets Committee. Her first collection of poems, Confirm Humanity, is forthcoming with Wild Skies Press.
**The Edmonton book launch for Kim's book, Confirm Humanity, is happening on November 16th from 2:00-3:30pm at Audreys Books. The book itself will be available for purchase online and in store from October 29th.**
🂡 Kathy Fisher is an Edmonton-based, Montreal-born multidisciplinary artist, performance poet and documentarian. You’ll often see her as a feature or host in the literary, festival and spoken word scene. A peripatetic person, inspiration for her poetry stems from travels and times in global and regional locales: be they Egypt or Australia, Istanbul or Cobalt, Lake Memphremagog or Sulphur Mountain. Her poetry has been published in chapbooks, anthologies, in traditional and on-line literary journals, and produced on radio, television and numerous CDs. In 2023, she wrote, directed and produced her Spanish-flu themed show, Vox Virago with a six-person ensemble. Her video-poem wabi-sabi, co-produced with filmmaker Louise Abbott, screened in LA in November 2024 at The Film and Poetry Symposium where Fisher delivered “[a]n ardent yet comedic poetry recital”. Poetry informs Fisher's life and is the lens through which she researches in law, salvages and restores old homes, and tracks down clues in history, heritage and genealogy.
“Her poems are beautiful narratives, a lyrical weave of words that move you through the stories she wants to tell about life, death and everything in between." ~ Edmonton Examiner
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