Spontaneous Poetry
Friday, May 23, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm · Balmoral Lot
Spontaneous poetry writing is an unplanned connection with someone that results in a poem that captures a feeling, moment, image or essence of their exchange and connection. The goal of spontaneous poetry writing is a meaningful, brief and exploratory dialogue that can prompt writing that mirrors the experience using some of the speaker’s own words.
Facilitator: Gilles Cyrenne
GILLES CYRENNE
Gilles Cyrenne has self-published a book of poetry, Emerge, and is seeking publication for a hybrid collection of poems and short memoir pieces, Next Year Country. Gilles leads the Downtown Eastside Writers Collective and is a founding member and participant in organizing the Downtown Eastside Writers Festival. He regularly publishes in the Carnegie Newsletter and has won first prize for both his poetry and an essay in the Sandy Cameron Memorial Writing Contest. Gilles is a member of Megaphone’s peer writers group, The Shift. His stories from Megaphone have been picked up and published in newspapers across Canada. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including: From the Heart of it All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Off the Map: Vancouver writers with lived experience of mental health issues.