Poetry Parlour (Calgary)
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
7:00pm – 9:30pm MDT
Pachamama Soul Flavour Emporium
#2110, 380 Canyon Meadows Drive SE, Calgary
FREE
Join host Ashley Frerichs at the next Poetry Parlour. Open mic sign-up starts at 7pm. There are limited slots available and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
Our featured reader for July 2024 is the powerful poet, Blair Palmer Yoxall.
About the Featured Reader
Blair Palmer Yoxall (he/him/his) is an author from Southern Alberta. His prose and poetry have appeared in glass buffalo, The Fiddlehead, and Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology. His debut novel, Treat Them As Buffalo (HarperCollins Canada and Algonquin Books), comes out in 2025. Blair is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and is of Métis and settler parentage. He holds an M.A. in English from the University of Alberta, and enjoys fly-fishing in the Alberta Rockies.
Poetry Parlour is now sponsored by Calgary publisher, Frontenac House. A selection of their beautiful books will be available for sale permanently on-site at Pachamama Soul.