We are BACK with Poetry at the Phoenix for another season!

September 10 kicks it all off once more, with Derek Webster and Emma Rhodes as our poets for the evening in our cozy downtown space at WEP Central (#3 Bartlett Ave)

Doors at 7pm. Readings from 7:30 - 8:30.

Entry is cash only, pay what you can at the door

DEREK WEBSTER’s National Animal (Véhicule Press) came out in spring 2024. His first book Mockingbird (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best poetry debut in Canada. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and was the founder of award-winning arts magazine Maisonneuve. He lives in Montreal and Toronto. "In National Animal, Derek Webster has spoken, and broken" - Diane Seuss, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2022.

EMMA RHODES (she/her) is a queer writer currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is the author of the chapbook Razor Burn (Anstruther Press), and the joint chapbook with the Egg Poets Collective All Things to Keep You Here (Qwerty Homerow Chapbook Series). Her work has been published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prism International, Plenitude, and elsewhere. She works as literary publicist, and is the Co-Editor in Chief of The Miramichi Reader.