Spring Events and Updates


Join us for a wonderful evening celebrating the new book by Celeste Snowber featuring poetry inspired by the art of Suzi Morris.

Location:
ANVIL CENTRE | STUDIO 417
MARCH 26, 2026
THURS 7:00-8:30 pm

Portals: The Colours of Our Longing, published by Hurtwood Press, London, is a visual and poetic conversation between a painter and a poet/performance artist.

Lyrical texts sit alongside images at once delicate and intense, as words and paintings enjoin the reader to consider how body and spirit can dance together. This collaboration creates something personal and universal, which brings beauty to a troubled world.

Celeste Nazeli Snowber is a poet, dancer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work, through her writing, teaching and site-specific performance, explores embodied forms of inquiry.

Suzi Morris is an artist whose paintings question ideas of the sublime body, most recently, through her affiliation with the School of Medicine at Imperial College, in response to the new science discipline of genomics.

Link to FB event – https://www.facebook.com/share/1B3HqmXeKj/

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Famous Last Words New Westminster

In partnership with Death Rides a Unicorn

Famous Last Words is a spoken word comedy show that involves poets participating in six rounds of a faux competition where they ‘compete’ in a series of poetry related events that are in turn, ‘judged’ by our host (with input from Uni the Unicorn and our audience).

Date: Wednesday April 22nd
Location: Centennial Lodge, Queens Park
Time: Doors 6:30 PM Show 7:00 PM
TicketsEventbrite

There is no cover charge but donations are accepted.

The tickets for this show are free (thank you Arts New West, Tri Cities Poetry, Event Mags, League of Canadian Poets, and Royal City Lit) but everyone who wants to attend is encouraged to book your tickets through eventbrite to guarantee your seat.

Linkhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/famous-last-words-new-westminster-tickets-1983988597302?aff=oddtdtcreator

Royal City Literary Arts Society / Pinhole Poetry CHAPBOOK LAUNCH

Jessica Lee McMillan will read from her new chapbook SHINE LIKE A DIME IN THE DIRT UNDER THE MOON
at the Anvil Centre Studio 417, 4th floor
777 Columbia St, New Westminster, BC

APRIL 24, 2026 6:30 – 8PM

with special guests Janet Kvammen,
Aidan Chafe, Dale Tracy & Winston Lê

Copies will be for sale at the event!

The organizers acknowledge the League of Canadian Poets, the Canada Council for the Arts & the Department of Canadian Heritage for their financial support.

Bridging the Gap 2025
RCLAS Co-operative Poem, National Poetry Month, April 2025
© 2025 by the poets
Compiled by Janet Kvammen, New Westminster Poet Laureate  

18 contributing poets in order of appearance: 

  Candice James   Alan Girling
   Jerena Tobiasen
   Susan McCaslin
   Jessica Lee McMillan
   Angus Pratt
   Karen McLaughlin Freeborn
   Cynthia Sharp
   Isabella Mori
   Julia Schoennagel
   Chelsea Comeau
   Emily Molinari
   Jude Neale
   Jennifer Getsinger
   Angela Kenyon
   H.W. Bryce
   Alan Hill
  Janet Kvammen



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