With financial assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada.

Presents:129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2T6

http://saltspring.bc.libraries.coop/

Salt Spring IslandPublic Library

ZOOM MEETING WITH POET M.C. WARRIORM.C. WARRIOR’s book is a fine collection of new poetry and poems only previously found in magazines, anthologies and in the chapbook Quitting Time published by McLeod Books in 1978. They range from poetry about working on the coast, commercial fishing, logging, environmental campaigning, to the political meaning of work, and wry and deft observations on topics ranging from Buddhism to Ovid in the afterlife.

Warrior was an IWA logging Camp Chairman, UFAWU Organizer (United Fishermen & Allied Workers Union), Lead Strategic Researcher For LiUNA (Labourers’ International Union of North America) and Executive Director of a Habitat for Humanity affiliate. A poet, a former logger and fisherman, and a lifelong trade unionist, Warrior was a founding member of VIWU, (the Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union) along with Tom Wayman, Kate Braid, Kirsten Emmott, Phil Hall and others. He is also author of Building the Power: A History of the Labourers’ Union in British Columbia. This is his long awaited first book of poetry. He lives on the Gulf Islands.

Join at 6:45 to sign up to read for the open mic. One poem per reader.

Join at 7:00 to listen to the readings.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 817 1519 7953Online Meeting ID: 817 1519 7953

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POETRY OPEN MICTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH