Check out our upcoming schedule to see who will be dropping by. The Creatives listed are scheduled to appear. but of course, the list and dates are subject to change.
February 22nd – David Martin
David Martin is a Calgary, Alberta Canada-based Educator, Author, and Poet. He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from the University of Calgary and his Master of Arts Degree in English from the University of Alberta. He was awarded the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize for his poetry collection “Tar Swan”, was awarded the Silver Award for Poetry from the Alberta Magazine Awards in 2023, was shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize, shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Competition in 2024, and shortlisted for FreeFall Magazine’s poetry contest in 2024.
His latest poetry collection, “nightstead” was released February 15th.
This will be his first appearance on the program.
March 8th – Maria Giesbrecht
Maria Giesbrecht is a Canadian poet whose work explores her Mexican and Mennonite roots. Her writing has appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, Narrative, Grain, ONLY POEMS, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, the Lesley Strutt Poetry Prize, a finalist for the 2025 Narrative Poetry Prize, a Best of Net nominee, and the founder of Gather, an international writing community that connects poets worldwide
This will be Maria’s first appearance on The Program.
March 15th – Kathryn MacDonald
Kathryn MacDonald’s poetry has been published in Room, FreeFall, and other Canadian literary journals and anthologies, as well as internationally in the U.K., U.S., and other countries. Her new poetry collection, The Blue Gate is forthcoming Spring/2026 with Frontenac House. Wayside, a chapbook, is forthcoming Winter 2026 with Big Pond Rumours Press.
Liminal Spaces is a chapbook anthology of ekphrastic poetry by Kathryn and three fellow-poets (2025). She is the author of Far Side of the Shadow Moon: Enchantments (poetry chapbook, 2024), A Breeze You Whisper: Poems (2011) and Calla & Édourd (novel, 2009).
This will be Kathryn’s first appearance on the podcast.