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The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brewpub are pleased to present Poetry & A Pint, an afternoon of celebrating poetry with Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Carol Rose GoldenEagle. Guest readers include local poets Neil Aitken, Aspen Enzo, Gerald Hill, Medrie Purdham and Tai Reign.

 

Local food and drinks are available for purchase, including a special edition Cinnamon Swirl Cheesecake crafted for our event. This event is free and open to the public; no RSVP necessary. (please note there is limited seating; first come, first served).

 

Readers include:

 

Neil Aitken is a Chinese-Scottish Canadian writer, translator, and librettist who is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage’s Dream and The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. His poetry chapbook Leviathan won the Elgin Prize winner for Sci-Fi Poetry in 2016. Neil is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and co-director of De-Canon: A Visibility Project. He has previously served as the RPL Writer-in-Residence and the SWG Virtual Writer-in-Residence and presently lives in Regina where he works as a creative writing coach and manuscript editor.

 

 

 

Aspen Enzo is a poet, essayist, and autotheoretician whose work centres on the revolutionary possibilities of queer family-making and re-making. On- and off- the page, they celebrate queer love stories, revel in fat trans joy, and strive to live their values in a world that wants to keep us apart & afraid. Like the trees for which they are named, Aspen thrives in community with roots intertwined. Aspen lives under big prairie skies, collecting both ampersands and knitting projects in the place colonially known as Regina, SK. They are currently working on their first book. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carol Rose GoldenEagle is the 9^th Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan. Carol is an award-winning novelist, poet, and journalist with over 30 years experience of bringing stories to life. She has been a mentor, artist-in-residence, workshop facilitator and featured storyteller. In 2017, her book Bearskin Diary was chosen as the national title for the Aboriginal Literature Award, and shortlisted for three Saskatchewan Book Awards. The French language translation of this novel, Peau D’ours, won a 2019 Saskatchewan Book Award, the Prix du Livre Français. Carol’s first poetry book, Hiraeth (2018), was shortlisted for the 2019 Saskatchewan Book Awards, and Narrows of Fear (2020) was a 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards winner. Her other books include the novel Bone Black (2019), and poetry books - Essential Ingredients (2021) and Stations of the Crossed (2023). Her works touch on topics from parenthood to Indigenous teachings and culture. Carol was named a recipient of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2023.

 

 

Gerald Hill published his 7th poetry collection (Crooked at the Far End) with Radiant Press in the middle of the pandemic. He was the Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan in 2016. Most recently he's been building Oak Floors! A Heritage Cabaret to be presented later this year, he hopes, by All-Terrain Theatre.

 

 

 

Medrie Purdham lives in Treaty 4 and teaches at the University of Regina.  She has published poems in journals across the country and has been anthologized three times in Best Canadian Poetry in English.  Her first book, Little Housewolf, won a Saskatchewan Book Award, was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award. She is at work on a new manuscript called The Solve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tai Reign is a Two-Spirited poet and performer from Peepeekisis Cree Nation, raised in Regina, SK. They first discovered poetry as a therapeutic outlet, since they’ve realized how powerful words can be. Now they use poetry and art to share their worldview and make sense of the hardships they’ve experienced. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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