Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet Billeh Nickerson, local favorite and literary powerhouse. Both canonical and candid Billeh has the anthropologists gift for unearthing the best and worst it and the poet’s gift for making it funny.

Billeh Nickerson’s five books include The Asthmatic Glassblower, McPoems, Impact: the Titanic Poems and the 2014 City of Vancouver Book Award nominated Artificial Cherry. He is a founding member of the performance troupe “Haiku Night in Canada” and a silver medalist at the Canadian Gay Curling Championships. He is also Chair of the Creative Writing department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

As always, there will be an open mic and two-round poetry slam, (3 min) where poets accumulate points to qualify for the Van Slam team.

Cafe Deux Soleils and the Van Slam strive to be a trans friendly place and a hate speech free zone. Help us with that. We also acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded First Nations Territory.

Also, be kind to our VOLUNTEER door staff. They have to follow BC Liquor Board Rules and once we are sold out we can’t let anyone in unless someone leaves. You cannot save seats for people in line. Let them know if you are leaving. Also no ATM at the door, it’s cash ONLY.

Get there early if you want a seat or want to slam. Before 7pm.