Twisted Poets Literary Salon
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November 13th , 2024
Pandora's Collective Presents TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON Featured Poets:
Hosted by: Mary Duffy and Sita Carboni Time: 6:00 - 7:50 pm Location: Britannia Library, 1661 Napier St, Vancouver 
Susan McCaslin has authored seventeen volumes of poetry including, her most recent, Consider (Aeolus House, 2023). Sentient Stones, a hand-made chapbook was published by Raven Chapbooks (Salt Spring Island, 2023). She has a forthcoming volume titled Field Play due for release by Ekstasis Editions sometime in 2024. Susan has edited two poetry anthologies, written a memoir, a volume of essays, and a volume of creative non-fiction. She completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at UBC in 1984 and taught English and Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC for 23 years. In 2012, she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project, which drew on poetry to help save an endangered forest in Glen Valley near her home.
Barbara Pelman has an MA from the University of Toronto and has taught at college, universities, and high schools for over 30 years until her retirement in 2008. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, podcasts, anthologies, on synagogue walls, and on buses throughout BC. She is the author of 4 books of poetry, her latest “A Brief and Endless Sea” from Caitlin Press in 2023, and a chapbook, “Aubade Amalfi” from Rubicon Press. Her glosa, “Nevertheless”, won the Malahat Poetry Prize in 2018. Another glosa won the Literary Writes contest in 2014. She lives in Victoria and travels often to visit her 108-year-old mother and her family in Vancouver.
Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD is dancer, poet, writer, and award-winning educator who is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at SFU. The essence of her performative work centres around site specific performance and complete one-woman-shows that integrate comedy, contemporary dance, and improvisation and how one lives a juicy life amidst complexities and wonder. Celeste’s publications include books, collections of poetry, as well as numerous chapters and articles in scholarly books and journals. Her books include, Embodied inquiry: Writing living and being through the body, three collections of poetry and her most recent book is Dance, poetics and place: Site-specific performance as a portal to knowing. Her last book of poetry, The marrow of longing explores her Armenian identity. Celeste is presently finishing a book entitled, Creating in dangerous times. She has performed and spoken internationally for concert venues, galleries, museums, conferences, and in various outdoor spaces. Celeste lives in New Westminster with her husband and is a mother of three amazing adult sons. Celeste can be found at www.celestesnowber.com or more ideally, dancing between land and sea.
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