Events › Write Like a River with Lauren Peat

Like rivers, poems love to move. They curve, drift, and change directions; they rush into cascading images and eddy into pools of quiet contemplation. 

In this 90-minute workshop, participants will explore a series of guided readings and prompts designed to unlock poetry’s watery, sinuous, and playful impulses. 

All levels of experience with poetry are welcome!

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Lauren Peat is a writer, translator, editor, and teacher. Her debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, was published by Baseline Press in 2024, and her poems, essays, and translations from French were recently featured in Asymptote, Only Poems, The New Quarterly, and The Seventh Wave. Her writing also appears on Vancouver city buses and in the repertoire of acclaimed vocal ensembles across the country.

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This class is generously funded by the Canadian Poetry Fund a local donor-advised fund which fosters accessible public educational outreach for poetry and other forms of creative writing through the services of the Vancouver Public Library.

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Accessibility: VPL is committed to making our programs accessible for all. If you have an access need that we have not addressed here, please email us at programs@vpl.ca.

• The expected noise level is moderate.
• Quiet Tables are available for patrons who would prefer to enjoy the class without talking to others.

For more information on physical access, view the Accessibility information on the Central Library page.