Writes of Spring — a National Poetry Month project of Plume Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Free Press — is celebrating its 10th birthday!
Over 100 Manitoban poets have appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, sharing their vision of who we are and where we live.
Please join editors Ariel Gordon and Charlene Diehl for a special launch, celebrating the 2025 poets as well as some special guests. Reading this afternoon will be contributors Jaime Laye Bouw, Jean Chicoine, Denise Cook, Rosanna Deerchild, T.J. Evangelista, Hannah Godfrey, Anne Le Dressay, Marjorie Poor, Spenser Smith, Ava Stokke, Andrew Vaisius and Demeter-Anemone Willow.
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. She is the ringleader of Writes of Spring and poetry editor for eco-journal The Goose. Her most recent book of poems is Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate change across the prairies (At Bay Press), written in collaboration with Saskatchewan poet Brenda Schmidt and nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award.
Charlene Diehl is a writer, editor, performer, former English professor, and the long-time Director of Plume Winnipeg, the literary programming hub in Winnipeg. She has published poetry, essays, reviews, and a memoir, Out of Grief, Singing: a memoir of motherhood and loss. She co-edited a jazz magazine for a dozen years and is the producer of the Izzy Asper Jazz Performances. In 2019, she was honoured with the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Making a Difference Award for her contributions to the local arts community.
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