Hear from Peter Midgley and Jenna Butler reading from their most recent works.

Held in EPL Stanley Milner Community Rooms 1&2.

Hosted by Ami Kaur.

*While masks are not mandatory at this venue, Edmonton Poetry Festival encourages masking while indoors at this event.*

Peter Midgley - Working as a freelance editor, festival director, lecturer, in-house editor, clerk of court, bartender, actor, janitor, door-to-door salesman has given Peter Midgley enough material for twelve books for children and adults, and many articles. His latest book is let us not think of them as barbarians. Find him online at his website.

Jenna Butler is an award-winning Canadian poet, essayist, editor, and professor. She is the author of three books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; a collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and the Arctic travelogue Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her newest book, Revery: A Year of Bees, essays about beekeeping, climate grief, and trauma recovery, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction. Butler is a professor of creative and environmental writing and an off-grid organic farmer in Treaty 6. Find her online at Twitter or on her website.