VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: Readings and Music

with Call Me Katie, Jean-Philippe Raiche, Marty Gervais, Paul Costa, Victoria Butler

Presented with Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada

In Person Music Poetry

Admission

Free

Saturday

Nov , 2019

7:00pm

Eastern

Library and Archives Canada

395 Wellington St. • Ottawa

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VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: Readings and Music

Jean-Philippe Raîche Marty Gervais Paul Edward Costa Victoria Butler

Poet laureates from across Canada gather in Ottawa for three days of readings, discussions and performances.

Presented with Library and Archives Canada and Ottawa Public Library

The Authors

Jean-Philippe Raîche

Poète acadien né en 1970, Jean-Philippe Raîche a publié, aux éditions Perce-Neige, Une Lettre au bout du monde en 2001 et Ne réveillez pas l’amour avant qu’elle ne le veuille en 2007. He is one of two newly-appointed Poet Laureates of Moncton.

Marty Gervais

Marty Gervais is the poet laureate emeritus of the City of Windsor. The author of the Canadian bestseller The Rumrunners, Gervais was the recipient of the International Authors Festival Harbourfront Prize in 1999. He was also awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal and was the winner of the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award. Gervais is also the publisher of Black Moss Press and teaches editing and publishing at the University of Windsor.

Paul Edward Costa

Paul Edward Costa is a writer, spoken word artist, teacher, and the 2019-2021 Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga. He has published over 60 poems, stories, and articles in literary journals such as Bewildering Stories, Modern Mississauga Magazine, Alt-Minds Literary Magazine, Entropy Magazine, POST-, and the Gyroscope Review. His first full length book of poetry The Long Train of Chaos will be released soon by Kung Fu Treachery Press. He curates/hosts the YTGA Open Mic Series at Studio.89, has co-organized/hosted the Mississauga Arts Council’s Verses Out Loud Poetry Series, and has won the Mississauga Arts Council's 2019 MARTY Award for Emerging Literary Arts.

Victoria Butler

Victoria Butler is the first female and youngest Poet Laureate of Barrie, ON. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Northern Appeal, a literary journal that focuses on publishing work from the Simcoe County and Muskoka region of Ontario. Her work has been featured in the Acta Victoriana, the veg, untethered, and more. Her debut collection "Old Prayers," a collaborative project with the Barrie Historical Archives, was released in August 2019. She lives with her cat and Bruce Springsteen record collection.