Releasing ourselves from our egos

Today’s PhoneMe poets were fortunate enough to be led again by poet and librarian, Danielle LaFrance. She brought another round of dynamic writing prompts for us to work with, which all revolved around the idea of ‘releasing ourselves from our own egos’ and our…

Pondering poetry, plants, and place

This week’s PhoneMe workshop began with a discussion regarding our ‘homework’ from last week — our task to write a poem inspired by a significance place. We were all similarly hesitant to share our works-in-progress just yet, as we agreed that our pieces were deeply…

Final VPL PhoneMe session of 2017

This week marks the final session at the VPL for our poetry workshops in 2017. As we turn our attention towards working with youth in schools in the new year, we are reflecting on how grateful we are to the wonderful library staff at the nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch…

Searching stories for poetry

The PhoneMe poets enjoyed yet another fruitful writing session this afternoon where stories very much were the inspiration of our work!

First, we returned to one of our favourite writing prompts; we grabbed a pile of newspapers and wrote found poetry…

Moving on from mushrooms to new members and memories

This week at the PhoneMe workshop, we had a great deal of excitement; first, our new number is officially up and running: 604 — PHONEME (604–746–6363). Next, we were so fortunate to have two new poets join us! It was a busy table today…