April is National Poetry Month! Bookmark is pleased to announce the first Fredericton edition of our annual Poets & Pints event, taking place at Gallery 78 (796 Queen St.) on Thursday, April 18th, from 7-9 pm.
Featuring special guest poets Fawn Parker, Jane Tims and Jordan Trethewey. Q&A moderated by Nick Thran.
There will be an open mic following the main event. Please register for the open mic by emailing westminster@bookmarkreads.ca (write Poets & Pints open mic in the subject line)
FAWN PARKER is a SSHRC-funded PhD student at UNB where she is writing a dissertation project on Mad women. Her novel WHAT WE BOTH KNOW was long listed for the 2022 Giller Prize and her essay “The Prescription” was nominated for a 2023 National Magazine Award. Her auto-novel HI IT’S ME will be out with McClelland & Stewart this September. Her debut poetry collection, SOFT INHERITENCE, came out last fall with Palimpsest Press.
JANE TIMS writes poetry and fiction and presents her writing, painting and drawings of plants, birds and landscape at www.janetims.com. Her latest collection is called MNEMONIC: SOUNDSCAPE & BIRDSONG (Chapel Street Editions, 2024). Her main interests include bird watching and identifying plants, visiting New Brunswick’s landscapes and the preservation of New Brunswick’s built heritage. mnemonic won the Alfred G Bailey Prize for a manuscript in the 2016 WFNB Writing Competition. In 2022, her poetry book a glimpse of water fall was shortlisted for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize in the New Brunswick Book Awards. She has published eight books of poetry, twelve books in the Meniscus science fiction series and five books in the Kaye Eliot Mystery series. She illustrates all her books and creates the front cover art.

JORDAN TRETHEWEY, Fredericton Poet Laureate (2021-2024), lives in Nashwaaksis, with his wife, son, and daughter. Jordan writes poetry, drama, children’s literature, historical and short fiction. His writing appears in national and international journals…and on the right shoulder blade of a fan. He is an editor at the on-line literary journal Open Arts Forum. Some of his work is also translated in Vietnamese, Farsi, and French. Jordan’s latest book, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD (2023), is the fulfillment of his legacy project as poet laureate. His previous books include a collection of short fiction, Painfully Awkward (2010); and four collections of poetry, Bathroom Stall Stanzas (2012), Wishing on Satellites (2016), Spirits for Sale (2019), and Unexpected Mergers (2021).