On May Day, May 1, I will be part of a public event at which the building at 411 Dunsmuir St. in Vancouver will be given a plaque by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation acknowledging the site as one of the Vancouver “Places that Matter.”
The free event occurs at 3:30 pm at Café Marie in the building.
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On Monday, May 4 2026, I’ll be one of seven readers performing in Vancouver along with the folk/roots/singer-songwriter trio Fraser Union, at RE:UNION: Labour Song and Literature. The event will take place at Mel Lehan Hall, St. James Community Square, 3214 West 10th Ave., at 7:30 pm. Admission is by $20 suggested donation.
(more…)On Friday May 8 at 7:30 pm, I’ll be reading in Victoria as part of the Planet Earth Poetry series at Russell Books, #100 – 747 Fort St. I’ll be reading from my Spring 2025 collection Out of the Ordinary.
Reading with me will be Ronna Bloom and Joanna Lilley. Toronto poet Ronna Bloom initiated connections between poetry and medical education and practice, including starting the Sinai Health poet-in-residence program in Toronto. Whitehorse poet Joanna Lilley’s 2020 collection, Endings, from Turnstone Press, focuses on extinct animals.
Admission to the event, which includes an open mic session, is free.
In November 2026, Finishing Line Press (Georgetown KY) will publish a chapbook I edited of poems by my late friend, California author Dennis Saleh (1942-2020).
Last winter, I assembled a volume of Dennis’ selected poems and submitted it to the Press. They then asked me to put a chapbook together and re-submit. I was very pleased when a gathering of 20 poems, called The Days Asking After Themselves, was accepted, and is now on the Press’ publication schedule.
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I’ll be part of a group reading at Word Vancouver along with nine other BC authors chosen to have their poetry on BC Transit and TransLink. The reading at the Poetry Tent on Robson Square is on Saturday, Sep. 20, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm.
Word Vancouver is a one-day literary festival, formerly known as Word On The Street. This is the 29th year of the Poetry In Transit program. The selection committee chose the first stanza of my poem “A City Most at Home in the Rain” from my newest collection, Out of the Ordinary.
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I am pleased to announce that Alfred Gustav Press will publish a chapbook of my poems about the summer 2024 wildfire evacuations in the Slocan Valley. The chapbook, called Evacuation Route, will appear in July 2026.
I’ll be reading from Out of the Ordinary, with fellow Harbour Publishing poet Nick Thran of Fredericton NB, on Thursday, May 8 at 7 pm, at Iron Dog Books, 2671 East Hastings St., Vancouver BC.
(more…)Join me at the Nelson Public Library, 602 Stanley St., Saturday, July 19, at 7 pm. I’ll be doing the hometown launch for my new poetry collection Out of the Ordinary.
And, two days before, Thursday, July 17 at 7 pm, I’ll be launching the new book of poems at the Nakusp Public Library, 92 – 6th Ave. NW. Both events are free by donation.
Harbour Publishing has released the cover for my forthcoming collection of poems, Out of the Ordinary. This is the collection accepted in November of 2022. Publication date will be March 4, 2025.
I was very pleased that the Vancouver Sun’s BC book reviewer, Tom Sandborn, a tireless supporter of Canadian literature, published a very positive review of my 2024 titles in the newspaper’s Dec. 21 issue. The review felt like a very nice way to end the year.
Here’s what he said:
“B.C.-based poet, novelist and essayist Tom Wayman is an underappreciated national treasure. If there were any doubt about the important contribution Wayman has made to our national literature, his 2024 doubleheader, a collection of poetry and a memoir of life in the Slocan Valley, settles the issue. This guy is the real deal, and more Canadians should be reading his books. …”
I will be presenting The Road to Appledore on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 at 2 pm as part of the annual Cherie Smith Jewish Book Festival at Vancouver’s Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Ave. I’ll be in a session also featuring Detroit attorney Eli Greenbaum’s new Hell, No, We Didn’t Go! Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance, from the University Press of Kansas.
The next day at 6 pm, I’m moderating a festival session spotlighting new novels from two writers I know.
(more…)On Wednesday, November 20, Ross Klatte and I will be reprising our Slocan reading at The Langham Cultural Centre, located at 447 A Ave (Highway 31 at 5th St) in Kaslo, BC. The reading begins at 7 pm, and is free, although donations to support The Langham are welcome.
