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It's National Poetry Month — for a few more days, at least — and there's lots going on locally! (Thread) @ECThreePtbo @CanadianPoets
Have you noticed these posters around downtown?
With funding from New Stages Peterborough, Justin Million of the Show and Tell Poetry Series curated a series of poems from five local writers and then printed them and posted them. (Designed by @makingPTBO) Try to find them all!
With funding from New Stages Peterborough, Justin Million of the Show and Tell Poetry Series curated a series of poems from five local writers and then printed them and posted them. (Designed by @makingPTBO) Try to find them all!
Poets featured in the poster project are Chris Conway, Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Elisha Rubacha, PJ Thomas and Million himself.
Here's Mohr-Blakeny's contribution:
Here's Mohr-Blakeny's contribution:
Also with funding via New Stages, Million purchased four vintage typewriters and gifted them to local writers so they could have a more tactile writing experience.
These typewriters are being delivered to Scott Cecchin, Chris Conway, Melissa Johnston and Nick Taylor this week.
These typewriters are being delivered to Scott Cecchin, Chris Conway, Melissa Johnston and Nick Taylor this week.
Over on Facebook, the Peterborough Poetry Slam is sharing a writing prompt every day to keep poets' creativity flowing: https://www.facebook.com/PtboPoetrySlam
And on our website, local arts writer Sam Tweedle has contributed these profiles of three young Peterborough poets. Have a read! https://peterboroughcurrents.ca/arts/three-young-local-poets/
