Wednesday, March 11 | 7pm | FREE
Piper’s Lagoon Lobby, Vancouver Island Conference Centre (Entrance is at 80 Commercial St)
Join Poet Laureate, Neil Surkan, and special guests for an evening of poetry at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. March’s event features poet, Junie Desil, as well as guest poets Délani Valin and Pamela Medland.
Junie Désil is of Haitian ancestry, born of immigrant parents on the traditional territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka on the island known as Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), and raised in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg). Junie has performed at various literary events and festivals. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine, PRISM International, The Capilano Review and CV2.
A UBC alumnus, a participant in Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio, and current Uvic MFA student, Junie’s debut book of poetry eat salt | gaze at the ocean (Talon Books, 2020) was short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection allostatic load (Talon Books) came out April, 2025.
Junie mentors poets at SFU’s Writers’ Studio and also teaches in SFU’s Leadership Essentials Certificate program.
