AGM- Featuring Barbara Pelman

Wordstorm members are encouraged to attend our 2024 Annual General Meeting. Members can nominate themselves or other members for positions on the board by emailing: wordstormsociety@gmail.com by June 3rd, or they can nominate from the floor during the AGM. All members can cast their votes.

Registration is free to members and non-members, but you will need to register to receive the Zoom link to attend. 

The AGM will be followed by our feature presenter, Barbara Pelman, highlighting her latest collection of poetry, A Brief and Endless Sea.

Barbara Pelman has taught at colleges, universities, and high schools for 30 years until her retirement. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, podcasts, anthologies (including the recent “Holograms”), on synagogue walls, and on buses throughout BC. She is the author of 4 books of poetry, her latest “A Brief and Endless Sea” from Caitlin Press in 2023, and a chapbook, “Aubade Amalfi” from Rubicon Press. Her glosa, “Nevertheless”, won the Malahat Poetry Prize in 2018. She lives in Victoria and travels often to visit her 107-year-old mother and her family in Vancouver.