Poetry Open Mic featuring Murray Reiss
Salt Spring poet Murray Reiss’s poetry and prose have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States, and short-listed for a number of prizes and awards. His first book, The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild, won the 2014 Gerald Lampert award. His second, Cemetery Compost, was published in 2016. A chapbook, Distance from the Locus, was published by Salt Spring’s Mother Tongue Press in 2005. His poems tread a taut line between bemusement and despair, our daily contradictions and divided natures, dissolving the distinctions between heartbreak and humour, the political and the personal, while engaging some of the most pressing issues of our time. • Sign-up for the open mic starts at 6:45. • One poem per reader, max. 3 minutes.
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