The Poet Laureate Podcast

"Steven, how do poets respond to disturbing times?"

In this fourth episode, Kyeren Regehr welcomes Steven Ross Smith— poet, mentor, arts leader, and former Poet Laureate of Banff. One of Canada’s great poetic experimenters, Steven speaks about improvisation and constraint, the sonic body of the poem, and his long-running Flutter Tongue series.

Episode Four is kindly supported by Sage Hill Writing, one of Canada’s leading providers of learning opportunities for professional and emerging creative writers. At Sage Hill, your writing matters. Learn more at sagehillwriting.ca.

In the podcast studio with phenomenal sound & performance poet, Steven Ross Smith, poet laureate of Banff, 2018-21 (also the Founding Director of Sage Hill Writing Experience & Director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre.

Episode Four is generously sponsored by @sagehillwriting
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John Barton: What draws you to form? Listen to Episode Three, generously sponsored by The Malahat Review. You can support this iconic Canadian literary journal by subscribing at malahatreview.ca.

John Barton: What's the measure of a poem's success?
Listen to Episode Three on all major platforms--generously sponsored by The Malahat Review.

John Barton—poet, editor, essayist & the fifth Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC. With unflinching grace & poetic precision, John speaks to the evolution of queer poetics in Canada, the intimate
distances of influence & his evolving relationship with formal constraint.

Loved walking into @haus.of.owl and seeing The Poet Laureate Podcast written on the studio whiteboard! Jordan and his team make everyone feel so welcome and supported. Their podcast studio is open for bookings!

A cornerstone of Canadian letters since 1967, The Malahat Review is published quarterly and showcases exceptional contemporary literary writing from Canada and beyond. The journal has been a vital space for literary excellence and discovery for nearly six decades. Subscriptions: malahatreview.ca.

In the podcast studio @haus.of.owl with the inimitable John Barton, first queer male poet laureate of Victoria--HAPPY PRIDE!
This episode is generously sponsored by The Malahat Review--you can support this iconic literary journal at www.malahatreview.ca

Episode Three arriving soon!! John Barton, 5th Poet Laureate of Victoria, first queer male poet laureate of the city!

Episode Two: the sensational Hollay Ghadery! Listen to the full episode on all major platforms.
Generously sponsored by Munro's Books Victoria. Recorded in studio at Haus of Owl: Creation Lab on lək̓ʷəŋən homelands. Hollay.bsky.social

Episode Two: Hollay Ghadery! Listen on all major platforms. ❤️

EPISODE TWO! Iranian-Canadian poet & multi-genre writer @hollay.bsky.social, inaugural Poet Laureate of Scugog Township, who speaks with deep honesty & intelligence about poetry as a practice of receptivity, form as a map, & writing as a means of reclaiming enchantment. Sponsored by Munro's Books!

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Episode Two of The Poet Laureate Podcast is supported by the generous spirit of Munro’s Books (shipping Canada-wide and Internationally). A literary landmark in downtown Victoria, Munro’s has been a sanctuary for readers and writers alike for over sixty years. munrosbooks.com

In studio @haus.of.owl with @hollayghadery! Episode Two ❤️

Still some copies of my collection Things Grown Distant available from @confingopublishing. Here's my favourite review: manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/t...

"What do you need in order to write poetry...?" Lorri Neilsen Glenn talks about poetry as a way to think, to listen and to find connection across time and experience.
EPISODE ONE: just under 25 mins of beauty and respite available on all major platforms: www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com/2466740

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Jordan Dack working his magic on The Poet Laureate Podcast at Haus of Owl: Creation Lab.

The Haus of Owl crew are talented professionals who truly love what they do, and also happen to be deeply kind humans.

The Poet Laureate Podcast is recorded in studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab in downtown Victoria--an inspiring and welcoming space for creatives of all kinds.

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In the podcast studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab with Lorri Neilsen Glenn @lorri.bsky.social --Episode One is in progress!

Episode One of The Poet Laureate Podcast is supported by the generous spirit of Munro’s Books, a literary landmark in downtown Victoria. Books by our guest poets are available at munrosbooks.com for international shipping, or can be ordered at the iconic downtown Victoria storefront.

Intro music preview--just a snippet! Recorded at Haus of Owl: Creation Lab by Jordan Dack.

Original music by the talented Chris Regehr.

EPISODE ONE COMING SOON: Lorri Neilsen Glenn was the first Métis Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is a Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. She is the author and/or contributing editor of fifteen titles of poetry, creative nonfiction and scholarly works.

More about host, Kyeren Regehr, @byallmeanswrite, at kyerenregehr.ca, and at Planet Earth Poetry.

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Each month features an exceptional Canadian poet, reading their poetry. The conversation that follows is rich but spare, sculpted around a few luminous questions that invite the poet to share their relationship with poetry in a way that feels personal, intimate, and profound.

The Poet Laureate Podcast--because we could all use a little respite from the world, and poetry can offer us that.

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