Poetry Open Mic

Poetry Open Mic featuring: Adelia MacWilliam

When Adelia did her poetry thesis at the University of Victoria, she discovered that if you cast the mythic imagination across a piece of land that has always been part of your life, everything will out.  What she encountered amidst the remnants of a stunning wilderness – a savage history, with its culturally sanctioned amnesia – changed her view of her home forever. Her chapbook, Details of the Passage, a selection of poems from her current manuscript Films the Dead Are Showing, explores the complexities of being part of a settler culture struggling to create a home in a world that it is simultaneously gutting. Her work can be found in various publications including Drift, Poems and Poets from the Comox Valley, (The Poem Factory), Sweet Water, Poems for the Watersheds, and most recently ‘Counterflow’, a digital magazine from Nanaimo’s WordStorm. Adelia is one of the three co-editors of Cascadian Zen Volume One and Two (Watershed Press) an anthology that brings together non-fiction, poetry, and translations that explore expressions of Zen within the Cascadia bioregion. She is also the manager of Watershed Press.

• Sign-up for the open mic starts at 6:45.
• One poem per reader, max. 3 minutes.