Calgary Spoken Word Society

This is Going to Sing~ Everyone Invited ~ Limited Space ~ Book now.

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Tickets are on the Move! Party w/ Poets!

Come Harken & then Dance to the Groove!

Tune in on Friday! I'll be speaking with the great Alessandra Naccarato about Speculative Poetry & The ONEIRONAUT ∅1!
Fifteen minutes of Fabulosus!

Thanks to Alex Good of the The Toronto Star for reviewing The ONEIRONAUT ∅1! Great to be alongside David Martin too.

An oneironaut is a dream traveler, an explorer of inner space, which in Sheri-D Wilson’s futuristic poem is like being a unicorn ever since the totalitarian overlords of the DoD (Department of Dreams) took over.

The sleep police are the next step in the evolution of the surveillance state, keeping the population in line mainly through use of a pill that prevents anyone from dreaming. But when a scientist named Rain stops taking her meds she becomes “awake for the first time,” enters a cosmic egg, and makes contact with a mythic underground movement.

“The Oneironaut” is the first part of a trilogy in verse and it rolls along with the fragmented, manic energy of a light show-cum-spoken word performance, full of exotic textual arrangements and capitalized sound effects. And it’s all put to great use, carrying a political message reminiscent of S. D. Chrostowska’s “The Eyelid,” as the unconscious stands as the final frontier of freedom in a dystopic future that can’t dream of any escape.