The Single Onion #201
The Single Onion, in celebration of National Poetry Month, presents four great poets: Courtney Bates-Hardy, Keith Garebian, Hann Jade, and Ian Kinney.
WHEN: Thursday, April 18th, 7pm
WHERE: Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW
Streaming: You can stream the event live on The Single Onion YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/@SingleOnionPoetry
Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (ChiZine Publications, 2016) and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have been published in Grain, Vallum, PRISM, and CAROUSEL, among others. She has been featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (Biblioasis) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer, neurodivergent, and disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Son of an Armenian father and Anglo-Indian mother, Keith Garebian of Mississauga, Ontario has a doctorate in Commonwealth Literature from Queen’s University (1973). His landmark books on William Hutt, Canadian Shakespearean actors, and classic Broadway musicals have earned him much acclaim. He has also received plaudits for his poetry collections such as Frida: Paint Me as a Volcano (Buschek), Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems (Signature), Children of Ararat (Frontenac), Poetry is Blood (Guernica), Against Forgetting (Frontenac), Finger to Finger (Frontenac House), and In the Bowl of My Eye (Mawenzi House) (which was also a CBC spring recommendation in 2022). Garebian has served on several theatre and literary OAC juries, including those for the Gerald Lampert and Raymond Souster Awards. Three-Way Renegade is his 11th poetry collection, and a record-setting 4th with Frontenac House, Calgary.
Hann Jade is a bookseller and event coordinator at Shelf Life Books. They play music in a band, write poetry, and enjoy feeding the birds. Their friend Kyle published a poem of theirs with the Blasted Tree. Hann was on the artist in residence board at the Women’s Centre, has organized creative writing groups, and volunteered with Alcove Arts and multiple local music and film festivals.
Ian Kinney, MA, is the author of 1 book of poetry, "Air Salt: A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall" (U of C Press, 2019). Ian (he/him, they/them) serves as a Radical Mental Health Doula and works as a Caretaker, occasional farmhand and gardener. This bisexual settler poet lives with Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord injury in Calgary on Treaty 7 land, but he also occasionally cares for their parents' self-sustaining homestead and free range farm on the traditional Káínaa territory between Vulcan and Lethbridge, Alberta. Ian's work has been short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.
The Single Onion takes place the third Thursday of the month, nine times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at www.singleonion.com
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets, the Calgary Arts Development, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the Writers’ Union of Canada.
