Welcome
Welcome to the Fraser Valley Poets Society
Fraser Valley Poets Society (FVPS)* is a poetry society based in Abbotsford, B.C. It is a welcoming place for poets living anywhere in the Fraser Valley.
We meet regularly for open mic and featured reader poetry nights (Blue Moon Readings).
Time and location of poetry nights:
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Clearbrook Library (Community Room to the right of the main entrance)
32320 George Ferguson Way
Abbotsford, B.C.
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Refreshments will be served and also welcome.
Bring a poem or two to share or just come and listen.
You are welcome to read your own poetry or some of your favourite authors. Also, you can read in your first language and we will all celebrate the rhythms and rhymes of spoken verse.
Our events are free. You don’t have to be a FVPS member to read your work at an open mic. Just arrive, tell the person who is compiling the list of readers that you’d like to join in, and you’re on the program
Or come just to listen. Please feel free to bring a friend or neighbour.
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The Fraser Valley Poets Society is inviting submissions to their
BC POETRY COMPETITION
in the categories of ROMANCE and HUMOUR.
(Other categories will also be accepted.)
All accepted entries will be compiled in an anthology entitled:
2020 Visions
Journeys of the Heart
Winning submissions will be featured in the anthology.
Contest details and rules here
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The 2019 Fraser Valley Poet Society reading nights are scheduled! Please mark your calendars.
February 11, 2019
Come for a special Valentines evening of LOVE poetry – come share your favorite LOVE poems or just come out to feel the LOVE in the air!
March 18, 2019
This day after St. Patrick’s Day – please bring along your LUCKY poems, your IRISH poems and your GREEN poems and help us make this an evening to remember!
April 1, 2019 (National Poetry Month)
This is APRIL FOOLS DAY, so please come share your favorite silly or foolish poems!
April 29, 2019
May 27, 2019
June 24, 2019
July 29, 2019
August 26, 2019
September 9, 2019 (International Literacy Day)
October 7, 2019 (Library Month)
November 4, 2019
November 25, 2019
Details about individual events will be posted closer to the event date. As well, you can check our Facebook Page for more information and view photos and reports.
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*FVPS was established as Poets Potpourri Society in 1981. The name was changed to Fraser Valley Poets Society in 2014. Read more about the founding, history and purpose of FVPS on the About Us page.
To view occasional photos and reports of reading nights, go to the FVPS Blog page.
Max R. Aranguiz-Peterson said
I enjoyed the meeting last night. As a newcomer I try to follow the rules and regulations that are in place. I was very perturbed and frustrated to see that old members broke all the rules, by reading a bunch of their poems at once, limiting the time for others. I would recommend that the moderator follows the rules strictly, as it doesn’t give a good image as the way it is.
Violet Nesdoly said
Thank you so much Max for attending our poetry evenings, your insights and comments are appreciated. We do work towards making our readings enjoyable and fair to everyone and no preference or bias was intended, however on the occasion of October 15, we neglected to keep official “by the clock” time, which does result in time – keeping guesswork. We do intend to keep more accurate time in the future. We appreciate you and others who carefully honoured the three minute rule with your own time keeping and we will make renewed efforts towards fairness and fun for all. (Posted by Violet on behalf of the the FVPS executive.)
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