Poetry Scavenger Hunt at Koerner Library with Kevin Spenst, UBC Library Writer-in-Residence

“How we exist in the world / depends on how we describe it,” Billy-Ray Belcourt writes in “Autofiction,” the first poem in his collection  The Idea of an Entire Life

For this poetry scavenger hunt, participants are invited to move through rows upon rows of poetry from authors here and around the world. Either solo or in pairs, each will follow a sheet of directions to find words and phrases through a series of oblique-like strategies. The central premise of this activity is that fun and profundity can exist side by side. The weird, the wondrous, the funny and the poignant will pop up from…