Richard-Yves Sitoski
Richard-Yves Sitoski (he/him) is a performance poet and the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. His work has appeared in Prairie Fire, Train, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. He is the 2021 John Newlove Award winner. His most recent book is No Sleep ‘til Eden (Ginger Press, 2020), an augmented reality collection of poems on the environment, and he is the author of the chapbook How to Be Human (Bywords.ca, 2022). He is co-editor, with Penn Kemp, of Poems in Response to Peril: An Anthology in Support of Ukraine (Pendas Productions/Laughing Raven Press, 2021).