Sheri-D Wilson Explores Poetrology




Daybreak Alberta from CBC Radio Calgary show

Summary: In April 2018, the city of Calgary named Sheri-D Wilson as its fourth poet laureate. Wilson has had an amazing career as one of the country's leading and most innovative writers, she's been the force behind the International Spoken Word festival, as well as an educator of young people. Her first big project as Calgary's poet Laureate is something Sheri-D Wilson calls Poetrology. At the end June, she's hosting an event for adults and July 23-27, she's organized a workshop for youth so they can work out their spoken voice for poetry. To explain more about poetrology, Sheri-D Wilson, and her ever present dog, Violet, joined Russell Bowers in the Daybreak studio.