Poetry Open Mic With Featured poet D.S. Stymeist

At the Salt Spring Public Library. Reader sign-up at 6:45. One poem per reader. Open mic at 7 p.m. with featured poet at 7:30 p.m. 

Stymeist published his debut collection, The Bone Weir, with Frontenac House in 2016. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, Dalhousie Review, and The Fiddlehead. His work was featured as the Parliamentary Poet Laureate’s Poem of the Month and was short-listed for Vallum’s 2015 poetry prize. He teaches poetics, poetics, crime writing, and indigenous literatures at Carleton University. His critical essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, such as Studies in English Literature, Mosaic, and Genre. He grew up as a resident of O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation, is the editor and founder of the micro-press, Textualis, and is the current vice-president of VERSe Ottawa, which runs VerseFest, Ottawa’s annual poetry festival.