In-person Arts & Culture

VERS/E: Queer Poetry Open Mic Featuring Rayanne Haines

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024
6:00pm to 8:00pm

Felice Cafe
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Join us on October 2 with the amazing Rayanne Haines, award-winning author of TELL THE BIRDS YOUR BODY IS NOT A GUN!

This event series is supported by the Edmonton Arts Council and the City of Edmonton.
ACCESSIBILITY INFO
Felice Cafe is a short distance from the Stadium LRT Station with ample nearby street parking. The business has two gender-neutral, single-use accessible washrooms.
ABOUT RAYANNE HAINES
Rayanne Haines is the author of TELL THE BIRDS YOUR BODY IS NOT A GUN (Frontenac House), winner of the 2022 Stephan G. Stephansson Alberta Literary Award for Poetry and shortlisted for both the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award and the ReLit Award. She's also the author of the poetry collections THE STORIES IN MY SKIN (2013) and STAINED WITH THE COLOURS OF SUNDAY MORNING (Inanna, 2017), as well as a four-part urban fantasy series. Rayanne served as the 2022 Writer in Residence for The Edmonton Region Federation of Libraries. She is a Pushcart-nominated poet, the recipient of an Edmonton Artist Trust Fund Award, host of the Crow Reads Podcast, president of the League of Canadian Poets, and an assistant professor at MacEwan University. Rayanne has been published in the GLOBE AND MAIL, MINOLA REVIEW, FIDDLEHEAD, GRAIN, FREEFALL, PRAIRIE FIRE, and others. WHAT KIND OF DAUGHTER?, a poetry and essay collection exploring grief, identity, and gendered trauma is available from Frontenac House in October 2024.

Felice Cafe

10930 84 Street NW
Edmonton, AB, T5H 1M7


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