Wakefield Brewster, Calgary Poet Laureate, 2022 – 2024

Wakefield Brewster stepped onto his first stage as a Poet and Spoken Word Artist, January 1999.

He is now known as one of Canada’s most powerful Professional Performance Poets to date.

In addition to filling the role of a Professional Performer:

• Professional Educating Artist

• Professional Poetic Interpreter™;

• Professional Artistic Curation and Artistic Counselling

• Calgary’s First Poetry Slam Champion & 3-Time Champion

• Community Connector & Builder

• Wellness and Recovery Advocate

The City of Calgary has monikered him as a Social Poet, The Poet of The People.

He became the sixth Poet Laureate of Calgary in 2022, the first Black Poet Laureate of Calgary.

During National Poetry Month in April 2024, after a quarter-century of Professional Performance Poetry, Wakefield released his first written Poetry collection titled WakeWord (Frontenac House). It is available in print, PDF, and audiobook.

Wakefield will be speaking at the screening of Oswaldo de Carmago: Between the Cold and the Music. For more about Wakefield and his Lyrical Life, please visit here.