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“Gender Failure”, a multimedia show and book launch by Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon, is just one of the many poetry events taking place during National Poetry Month at Verses Festival of Words.
“A poet’s job is always to pay attention,” says Lane, “close, careful attention, using words like objects, structures on a page that change us inside emotionally.”
The Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference (V125pc) is a legacy project organized and curated by poet laureate Brad Cran to bring the poetry community together and “see them interact in ways...
