Poetry Parlour (Calgary)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
7:00pm – 9:15pm MT
Pachamama Soul Flavour Emporium
#2110, 380 Canyon Meadows Drive SE, Calgary
FREE
**Important** Please note, June’s Poetry Parlour is happening on the 4th Tuesday of the month, NOT the 3rd Tuesday as usual.
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. In June, in honour of both Pride Month and Indigenous History Month, we are so excited to be featuring Alycia Two Bears!
About the Featured Reader
Alycia Two Bears is a member of Mistawasis Nêhiyawak First Nation. A proud mixed blooded iskwew, they call Mohkinstsis home. She is a Two Spirit story teller, single mama to five amazing humans and a midwife in the making, who coaxes babies down from the stars with poetry, medicines and songs. Alycia has published in New Tribe Magazine, Red Rising Magazine, MBC Magazine, and Wilding and Sprout: Pregnancy Loss, Abortion and PostPartum Poetry Anthology. She has hosted poetry workshops through Red Rising Magazine, Sparrow Artspace, and the Buffalo Spirit Program. Her first collection, Two Spirit: Stories, Sex and the Ceremony Behind it all was-self-published and is available online. Her second collection of poetry, The Feast, is coming this spring from Wild Skies Press.