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The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brewpub are pleased to present Poetry & A Pint, a celebration of poetry with Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate Tai Reign and Regina poets Jes Battis, Chelsea Coupal, Deidre S. Powell and MW.
Local food and drinks available for purchase, including a special edition cheesecake crafted for our event. This event is free and open to the public (19+). Please note there is limited seating: first-come, first-served.
Bushwakker is an accessible venue; the wheelchair accessible door is at the back of the building. Gendered washrooms. Free street parking is available.
Accessibility measures for this event include:
Our Poets:
Jes Battis is the author of the award-winning fantasy novel The Winter Knight (ECW), as well as the Occult Special Investigator series (Penguin), and the Parallel Parks series (Penguin). They are a Canada Reads finalist, and their work has been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Sunburst Award, and the Ralph Gusatfson Poetry Prize. Their recent book of poems, I Hate Parties, won the Saskatchewan Book Award.
Chelsea Coupal’s second poetry collection, U Alive, will be released in April 2026 with Thistledown Press. Her first poetry collection, Sedley, was selected for an Indigo Exclusive Edition and shortlisted for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her work has won the City of Regina Writing Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in more than a dozen publications, including Best Canadian Poetry.
Deidre S. Powell is a Jamaican-Canadian lawyer, mediator, and poet based in Regina, Saskatchewan. A recipient of the SK Arts Building Arts Equity Grant, she explores resilience, justice, and memory through poetry that merges legal precision with lived experience. She writes a weekly immigration law column for the Jamaica Gleaner, and her work appears in WildSound and the Spring 2026 issue of Grain. She is also the author of the children’s book Tell Me a Story, Grandma.
Tai Reign (they/them) is a Two-Spirit artist from Peepeekisis Cree Nation based in Regina, Saskatchewan. As a young artist, they've used spoken word as an avenue of self-expression. Collaborating with artists from different disciplines has helped them find a sense of connection and play in art and storytelling. They have performed across Canada and at the Voices of Today Youth Poetry Festival in Toronto. On their artistic journey, they've ventured into longer forms of storytelling, where they have co-created and performed two devised theatre productions, Lift/Break and The Rehearsal. They are the current Saskatchewan Youth Poet Laureate.
MW is a poet from the eastern shore whose two collections, These are not the potatoes of my youth and Terrarium were finalists for the Trillium Award for poetry and the Gerald Lampert awards. In 2025, they were long-listed for the Nelson Ball prize and the CBC poetry award.
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