Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author Spotlight – Kevin Spenst

Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press, 2015), Ignite (Anvil Press 2016), and Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press 2020) along with over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye (the Alfred Gustav Press, 2013), Ward Notes (the serif of nottingham, 2016), Flip Flop Faces and Unexpurgated Lives (JackPine Press 2016), and Upend (Frog Hollow Press, 2018). He teaches poetry at Vancouver Community College and is an occasional co-host at Wax Poetic on Co-op Radio. He lives on unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver.

His poem “The Geology of a Moment” can be read on our website at  http://canlit.ca/article/the-geology-of-a-moment/.

Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.