Past Events
Dead Poets Reading Series
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3:00 pm
Jane Munro read (and talked about) Basho
Featuring readings from:
Charles Bukowski (1920 – 1994) Michael Mirolla
John Thompson (1938 – 1976) Isabella Wang
Basho (1644–1694) Jane Munro
June Jordan (1936– 2002) Junie Désil
Saturday, April 27
DUBLIN, IRELAND
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND
THE ECHO: READINGS FROM CANADA, TURTLE ISLAND, AND EIREANN
Featuring winners and finalists of the Griffin Poetry Prize
Christian Bök • Anne Simpson • Billy Ray Belcourt • Liz Howard • Jordan Abel • Jane Munro (Winner 2015 Blue Sonoma) • Donato Mancini • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin • Hosted by Ian Williams
Monday, April 22, 2019
Vancouver BC
Hood 29
FBCW Earth Day Event
Feature Reader
6 to 9 pm
Jane at Brick Books
All Lit Up - “Inner Ear: Listening for Poems.”
Griffin Award-winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness.
Review of Glass Float by Kim Fahner in periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics (rob mclennan)
“Coping with COVID-19” by Jane Munro
Includes a poem from Glass Float, “Decentralize Mind."
Musical Score
Two songs for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano - by Leslie Uyeda. One of the two songs is “Valley of the Moon” from Blue Sonoma.
Iyengar Yoga Canada - Journal
A yogic poet? A poetic yogi? Presenting Jane Munro…
In 2014, she found herself in Pune, India at the Iyengar Institute having her Headstand ‘renovated’ by Geeta Iyengar. This inspired the poem below, which Jane also recites in the attached video, very appropriately, while in Headstand.
Open Book Ontario
An article by Jane
An interview with Jane
Jane Munro presented by David Starkey
On Jane Munro’s “Old Man Vacanas”