Kevin Spenst Kevin Spenst
Kevin Spenst’s poetry has appeared in Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, Rhubarb Magazine, Capilano Review, dANDelion, filling Station, Poetry is Dead, Moonshot Magazine, The Maynard, illiterature, The Enpipe Line, V6A and Ditch Poetry. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and his manuscript, Ignite, was a finalist for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize. In 2011, he won the Lush Triumphant Award for Poetry for a suite of poems from Ignite. He has published three chapbooks since 2012. In 2014 he is going to do a 50-venue reading tour across Canada in support of small presses.
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