Twisted Poets Literary Salon
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January 21st , 2026
Pandora's Collective & Britannia Library Present TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON Featured Poets:
Hosted by: Natasha Boškić and Daniela Elza Time: 6:00 - 7:45 pm Location: Britannia Library, Gallery Room, 1661 Napier St, Vancouver 
Kyeren Regehr is an award-winning poet and writer with a background in professional dance and theatre. She is the author of Cult Life (finalist for the ReLit Awards and The Victoria Butler Book Prize) and Disassembling A Dancer (winner of the inaugural Raven Chapbooks contest), as well as two earlier chapbooks. Her poetry has been published in Canada, Australia, and the USA, and thrice-longlisted for the CBC Poetry Awards.
Kyeren holds a BFA and MFA in Writing, served as a poetry editor at The Malahat Review, and works as a creative editor and writing teacher—she has mentored poets through The League of Canadian Poetry, The Writer’s Union of Canada, and taught in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. She’s the 5th Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry reading series and is editing the anthology After: Poems in Dialogue, forthcoming with Caitlin Press. Kyeren is the 7th Poet Laureate of Victoria, host of The Poet Laureate Podcast, and has lived on the unceded homelands of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ for over twenty years. See: kyerenregehr.ca 
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry collections and the editor of two essay collections. A frequent collaborator with choreographers, musicians, sound and visual artists, Elee is currently collaborating with nature via a series of durational art installations that investigate cultural ideas regarding the passing of time. Elee codirects the Whole Cloth reading series with Bronwen Tate (for which an author reads their entire book in one go) and she is the 7th poet laureate of Vancouver. She continues learning in community via the sound-based legacy project Here, Hearing which you can follow along with at versevancouver.ca Her new book, sometimes, forest, arrives from Talonbooks in the spring.
Janet Kvammen is a poet, mixed media, lens-based artist and community arts volunteer living in New Westminster on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. A founding member in 2012, Janet is the President of the Royal City Literary Arts Society. The recipient of the Bernie Legge Artist of the Year Platinum Award in 2023, Janet is the coordinator of local reading events such as Poetry in the Park, the Cogswell Award and New West Artists’ exhibitions. Janet is the current Poet Laureate for the City of New Westminster, BC.
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