Spoken Word Saturday is a showcase of the amazing Spoken Word Poetry talent that can be found from coast to coast. You can find a playlist of all Spoken Word Saturday curations on the League’s Youtube channel!

Kate Marshall Flaherty

“Canoe”

The video poem “Canoe” is a collaboration between poet Kate Marshall Flaherty, composer/filmmaker Mark Korven, and Gabe Flaherty.

“Canoe” was first published in Titch, Piquant Press, 2023, and was made into a video-poem by Mark Korven, sound by Gabe Flaherty, with the support of the King Foundation Georgian Bay Project.

Kate Marshall Flaherty recent books are Titch, Piquant Press 2023, and Digging, Aeolus House, 2022. She’s been published in CV2, Vallum, Grain, Room, Trinity Review, The Literary Review of Canada, Event and Tamarack Review. She was shortlisted for the Mitchel Poetry Prize 2021, and Arc’s Poem of the Year 2022. She writes spontaneous “Poems of the Extraordinary Moment” (P.O.E.M.s) for charity, in person and online, and guides StillPoint Writing and Poetry Editing.

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