House of Parlance Blog

Here at House of Parlance we get a heck of a lot of poetry submitted for our consideration via email. We received at lot of emails from one particular person and I thought I would share a few excerpts of their work with you all.
This first piece instills that sense of urgency of the oncoming […]

 
Our wonderful poet Shane Koyczan just performed last weekend at Portland’s biggest literary weekend, Wordstock. One of the weekend’s reviews called Shane “likely the best white, Canadian slam poet you’ll ever see”. As part of the event Shane was invited to perform for Livewire a program on Oregon Public Radio. He joined such interesting guests […]

From the VECC program -“You only have to hear Shane Koyczan read once to be hooked - humane, furious, sexy, political, tragic and so funny that you’ll laugh through your tears. With musical accompaniment from the Short Story Long, Shane moves from subdued, deep, sad love poetry to power chord hip-hop meta-meter.”

The Vancouver East Cultural […]

“You only have to hear Shane Koyczan read once to be hooked – humane, furious, sexy, political, tragic and so funny you’ll be laughing through your tears.”

Shane Koyczan on television? Are you out of your mind? Since when do people make television shows showcasing poets while they’re still alive? This must be […]

Ok then. This is an APB to all my peeps in Toronto & Environs to be getting yourselves out to High Park’s CanStage this coming Monday night at 7pm for some beautiful summer open-air poetics. It’s the finale of the Scream Literary Festival and, as you may have already surmised, Shane will be […]