ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
THE POEM IS LISTENING. Each month: one poet, one moment.
A sonic sanctuary hosted by Kyeren Regehr, 7th Poet Laureate of Victoria.
Season Two is made possible through a project grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, supporting our transition into a professionalized audio-first publication venue.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
We also thank the City of Victoria for ongoing support through its poet laureate program.
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English
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17 episodes
since April 23, 2025
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In this special live recording from the Haus of Owl Creation Lab, we gather to celebrate 60 years of the League of Canadian Poets with three extraordinary voices: Junie Désil, Christina Shah, and Kim Trainor. Together, we explore the varied terrains where poetry takes root and does its heavy liftin…
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In this vibrant and illuminating conversation, Micheline Maylor, poet laureate emerita of Calgary, joins Kyeren Regehr to explore the devotion, craft, and paradox at the heart of writing poetry. With candour and warmth, Micheline reflects on poetry as a spiritual practice, the sensory impulses that…
In this generous and moving conversation, Nanaimo Poet Laureate Neil Surkan joins Kyeren Regehr to talk about what poetry can hold when the world feels uncertain: grief, tenderness, surprise, attention, and the possibility of being changed. Neil speaks with remarkable openness about the strange arr…
rob mclennan & Kyeren Regehr: Special Double-interview EpisodeRecorded in front of a live studio audience during National Poetry Month, 2026
We recorded this one in front of an audience. No scripts, no agendas—just two poets turning the mic on each other to talk about language, survival, small-…
Launching audio-first publication! In this special episode of The Poet Laureate Podcast, host Kyeren Regehr speaks with poet, educator, and Surrey’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Renée Sarojini Saklikar. Renée reads two poems from Bramah’s Discovery, along with a new poem arriving first through sound—ma…
In this attentive and graceful episode of The Poet Laureate Podcast, host Kyeren Regehr speaks with poet, translator, educator, and Mississauga’s inaugural Poet Laureate emerita, Anna Yin. The conversation moves through naming, migration, attention, translation, and the way poetry can open a life. …
In this deeply inspiring and generous episode of The Poet Laureate Podcast, host Kyeren Regehr sits down with poet, memoirist, teacher, and the inaugural Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC, Carla Funk, The conversation moves through poetry, the daily work of a creative life, and remaining awake to the w…
In this rich and sweeping conversation, Kyeren Regehr speaks with poet and bass clarinetist, Toussaint St. Negritude about poetry as ritual and risk, liberation as artistic practice, and the living intersections of Blackness, queerness, place, music, and spirit. Together they explore the origins of…
Poet Laureate Podcast: Inaugural Community Episode (2025)
Featuring: Lorne Daniel, Jeremy Loveday, Zoe Dickinson & Tracy Wai de Boer
Recorded live in the Garden Studio at Haus of Owl Creation Lab, this episode celebrates community, poetic resilience, and the power of shared voice. Four poets wi…
Poet Laureate Podcast – Episode Eight Joanna Streetly | Deep Time, Transformation, and the Ethics of Place
In this eighth episode, Kyeren Regehr sits down with Joanna Streetly—poet, memoirist, and the inaugural Poet Laureate of Tofino. Writing from a float house in Clayoquot Sound, Joanna explores …
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