Richard-Yves Sitoski
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Richard-Yves Sitoski is a poet, songwriter and performer. He was the 2019–2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, Ontario, on the lands of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (treaty territory 45 ½). He is co-editor, with Penn Kemp, of Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine, profits from which went to displaced Ukrainian cultural workers, and is the author of the chapbook How to Be Human and the full-length collection Wait, What?. His one-person musical theatre piece, Butterfly Tongue, has played to sold-out houses. He is the Artistic Director of the Words Aloud Poetry Series and serves as Marketing and Publication Coordinator at Kegedonce Press. He lives in Owen Sound with his wife, Mary, and a thoroughly impossible cat, and uses guitars to make sounds unheard since the Cretaceous. www.rsitoski.com
Ronsdale books by Richard-Yves Sitoski