The Lunchbox 2020-09-21: Ian LeTourneau on Word Feast Poetry Bash

On the show:

This week is Word Feast 2020! I’ll be featuring interviews about it, including the brand-new interview with the founder of the feast: Ian LeTourneau! He also happened to have a poet right on hand, so we hear from Emilie Skov-Neilsen with her poem, Painting Suburbia.

- September 23, 7 p.m. – Festival Launch and Keynote Address
  Join us for the launch of Word Feast’s Fourth Annual Literary Festival and first ever virtual take-out edition. Don’t miss out on Senator and Governor-General’s Literary Award Winner David Adams Richards’ Keynote Talk on writing in the pandemic. Listen to the talk and join us for conversation on Zoom.
- September 24, 7 p.m. – Word Feast Poetry Bash
  Come find out what the poets are doing – and saying – at this Word Feast signature event. Readings from each participating poet will be made available online in the days leading up to the bash. Check them out, and then join us for a live Zoom event with poets Yusuf Saadi, Chloé LaDuchesse, Cecily Nicholson, and Emily Skov-Nielsen. Hosted by poet and Word Feast Vice-Chair Jennifer Houle. This will be a literary soirée for the books, full of conversation and discovery. Come to Poetry Bash on Zoom.
- September 25, 7 p.m. – Spotlight on Translation/Pleins feux sur la traduction littéraire
  Tune in for a conversation with Joshua Whitehead, Arianne Des Rochers and Sophie Lavoie to hear more about the art of translation today, why it matters so much, and how it can open doors.
- September 26, 7 p.m. – Celebrating Bill and Nancy Bauer, with Brian Bartlett
  Mark your calendar for this literary celebration! Join us for the launch of Bright with Invisible History: A William Bauer Reader, edited by Brian Bartlett, with readings of Bill Bauer’s poetry by David Adams Richards, Jennifer Houle, Ian Letourneau, Lynn Davies, Michael Pacey, Andrew Bartlett, Mark Kristmanson, John Bauer, Grace Bauer, and Louise Birdsell-Bauer. The presentation of Word Feast’s annual Community Impact Award will follow. Celebrate with us on Zoom.
- September 27, 2.p.m. – Odd Sundays at Word Feast
  Join us for the announcement of the Annual Word Feast Postcard Story contest, the Word Feast Fredericton Playhouse Contest, and the Video Slam Contest winners, along with readings from the winning writers. This will be followed by an Open Mic set. Registration is required to read but not to attend; register at info@Wordfeast.ca. To be part of this event, join us on Zoom

We also heard my 2016 interview with Natalie Sappier and Nate Miller about the work they were doing to write beautiful music, and we got to sample Floating and Oceans.
This week is International Week of Happiness at Work, so find the way to celebrate while doing your job, especially if you’re still working at home. It also happened to be World Gratitude Day on Monday.
Photo Fredericton meets this Tuesday night at 7pm online. All are welcome, at all levels of photography. Virtual meetings, friendly atmosphere, share the joy of photography and learn from presentations For full schedule 2020/2021 : www.photofredericton.ca, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays starting Sept 8 at 7:00.
Tertulia: Tom Beckley on Wendell Berry on Wednesday, September 23?7:00 – 8:00pm. Tom Beckley is a sociologist and professor in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick. His research focuses on rural communities, sense of place, community forestry, public engagement in forestry policies, and energy and climate change. He grows his own food and manages a woodlot in Keswick Ridge. Wendell Berry is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. He is the author of The Unsettling of America, numerous novels, essays, short stories, and poetry. Register for the Zoom link at fredericton.tertulia@gmail.com.
SOLD OUT Adam Baldwin (solo) LIVE & IN PERSON on Wednesday, September 23?8:00 – 10:00pm at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. http://adambaldwin.ca/
See the Facebook event for more details.
Enbicon Player registration is open! Register to play at the TableTop Events website.

News updates:

If New Brunswickers want to get tested for COVID-19, you can now fill out an online self-referral form.
The murder trial of Matthew Vincent Raymond continues at the Fredericton Convention Centre.
A 15-year-old boy is dead after a dirtbike crash on Friday evening near Nashwaak Bridge.
The Codiac RCMP is looking for the public’s help to find a missing teenager from Riverview.
New Brunswick will be spared the brunt of Hurricane Teddy as the storm makes its way through Atlantic Canada.
The Canadian Federation of Students is calling out university fees across the country that charge for services and facilities students can’t use.
A new maritime study shows youth between 16 and 24 have been vaping less frequently since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
And U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead after a long battle with pancreatic cancer