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SUMMARY:Single Onion #224
DESCRIPTION:The Single Onion wraps up its fall season with four excellent
  poets: Miranda Krogstad\\, Kathryn Lennon\\, Josephine LoRe\\, and Nisha
  Patel.\\nAbout the Poets: Spoken word poet meets eternal optimist\\, Mir
 anda Krogstad’s poetry ranges in topic from child’s play to empowerme
 nt\\, giving life’s obstacles a feel-good finish. A member of the 2014 
 slam team\\, a member of the 2013 International spoken word program at th
 e Banff centre\\, a Calgary Arts Development grant recipient\\, and a 2-t
 ime Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient\\, she has since co-found
 ed the spoken word network YYSpeak to create a communal and supportive sp
 ace for spoken word artists. A big supporter of local arts\\, Miranda has
  featured at staples such as Feminine Voice\\, Expressions\\, Raw Voices\
 \, Say Word\\, CYHMN and U of C Spoken Word. She has also brought her poe
 try more widely into country and beyond\\, into cities like Honolulu\\, P
 ortland\\, Montreal\\, and Winnipeg.\\nKathryn Lennon 姚君妍 is a writ
 er\\, editor\\, and community planner. Her poetry has been published in C
 anthius\\, Polyglot Magazine\\, Living Hyphen\\, the Globe and Mail\\, Ri
 cepaper Magazine\\, and the Ethnic Aisle\\, among others. She is the co-f
 ounder and co-editor of Hungry Zine\\, a food-focused publication that ce
 ntres voices missing in mainstream food media. She holds a MA from the Un
 iversity of British Colombia’s School of Community and Regional Plannin
 g\\, and a Bachelor of Environment from the University of Waterloo. She h
 as Cantonese and Irish heritage and lives in Edmonton\\, amiskwacîwâska
 hikan\\, within Treaty 6 Territory. Duckweed浮萍 is her first full-leng
 th collection of poetry.\\nJosephine LoRe’s words have been read live a
 nd in global zoom-rooms\\, put to music\\, danced\\, integrated into visu
 al art\\, and published in literary journals and anthologies in fifteen c
 ountries and five languages. Thrice nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Pri
 ze and recently appointed Poet Laureate of Calgary’s Bow Valley Ranche 
 Historical Society\\, Josephine has four solo publications\\, and recentl
 y published Late to the Sky with co-pilot Charles S. Cobean. https://www.
 josephinelorepoet.com/\\nNisha Patel is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of the C
 ity of Edmonton and a Canadian Poetry Slam Champion. She is a disability 
 advocate and diabetic. Her works (Coconut\\, A Fate Worse Than Death\\, F
 or the Record) are available where books are sold. She currently works fr
 om Edmonton and Calgary.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/canada/calga
 ry/events/single-onion-224-2026-11-12
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