08/29/2026
FRIDAY SEPT 11: Sublime: Poems for the Vanishing Ice: Hosted by Yvonne Blomer, and including a spectacular line-up of poets:
Andrea Raine, Simone Littledale, Marlene Grand Maître, Laurence Hutchman, Anne Hopkinson, Andrea Scott, Rhona McAdam, Pam Medland, Barbara Herringer, Dan MacIsaac, Cornelia Hoogland, Heidi Greco, Colleen Alstad, Jeremy Loveday, Marilyn Bowering, Katia Grubisic, & Julie Paul.
And we'll also be hosting our annual book sale fundraiser! Visit our media or website for more details!
In Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice, poets from across Turtle Island explore what it means to enter into conversation with ice. The poems in Yvonne Blomer's third, water-focused anthology exemplify sublime as both verb and adjective: these are poems that skate, drink, stomp, crush and dive. In poems that range from street hockey, to snow angels, to meltwater, poets write to the ever-changing ways of ice. Other poems grapple with fires that melt permafrost and rising temperatures that fracture and erode lives. In the poems, fissures form into ever-expanding crevasses, and animals suffer because of humanity’s negative impact on Earth’s most ancient of water systems: ice.
