Richard-Yves Sitoski

Richard-Yves Sitoski is a songwriter and performance poet, and was the 2019-2023 Poet Laureate of Owen Sound, on the territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. His poems have appeared in Arc, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Train, CAROUSEL, and elsewhere. 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). His one-person fringe show, Butterfly Tongue, has played to sold-out houses. He is a 2021 Best of the Net nominee, the recipient of the 2021 John Newlove Award, and the second place winner of the 2022 Don Gutteridge Award. His most recent works are the chapbook How to Be Human and the full-length of collection Wait, What?.