Save the Date:
Royal City Literary Arts Society
Annual General Meeting.
SUNDAY MARCH 15, 2026 at 1pm
RSVP secretary@rclas.com
Location:
New West Public Library, 716 6th Avenue, New Westminster, BC
Poetry and Art Salon with Janet Kvammen
ANVIL CENTRE | Main Floor
MARCH 22, 2026
SU 2:00-4:00 pm Drop-in. No registration required.
Featuring Poet Chelsea Comeau & Artist Tina Rezvani
Join Janet Kvammen, Poet Laureate of New Westminster, for a free afternoon of poetry readings, art “Show & Tell” chats and more! Come listen, share, and connect.
In partnership with Royal City Literary Arts Society and the City of New Westminster.
Bios:
Chelsea Comeau is a freelance writer, editor, and web designer. Her work has appeared in Room, CV2, and subTerrain, among other literary magazines. In 2024, she was one of two winners selected by Lorna Crozier for Planet Earth Poetry’s Tribute to Patrick Lane poetry contest, and in 2025 she was the winner of the People’s Choice category for CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest.
Tina Rezvani, local surrealist oil painter, discusses her latest collection, Hedgelore: Thirteen Verses, a collection of thirteen original paintings. Each painting shows scenes from the songs, giving the stories in Taylor Swift’s landmark album folklore a visual world of their own. Tina painted exactly what she imagined while listening—the places, people, and moments the lyrics brought to life in her mind, building a bridge between poetry and visual arts.
Janet Kvammen is a poet, mixed media, lens-based artist and community arts volunteer living in New Westminster on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. A founding member in 2012, Janet is the President of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. The recipient of the Bernie Legge Artist of the Year Platinum Award in 2023, Janet is the coordinator of local reading events such as Poetry in the Park, the Cogswell Award and New West Artists’ exhibitions. Janet is the current Poet Laureate for the City of New Westminster, BC.
IG @janetkvammen @iheartnewwest
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.
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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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