Our monthly openmic kicks off with Claire Gordon as the feature poet for June! Claire is a recent graduate from Vancouver Island University with a major in English. She is a settler of Celtic, French, and Polish ancestry; born and raised in Snuneymuxw territory and now living in the Village of Cumberland in K’ómoks territory. Her writing meditates on human interaction with and on the land through narrative and documentary poetics. She is interested in form, imagery, and culture-creation through art. Claire’s academic and creative work has appeared in Queen City Writers, Canadian Yogi, and Sea & Cedar Magazine, among others.