POET CAMP Registration

September 27, 2026

5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Eastern Time

$50 Full / $25 Reduced  *2 Scholarship seats are available. Email Sarah at Poet Camp dot com for information.

*Live on Google Meet. This workshop will be recorded.

What does it mean that a culture has a concept of garbage, waste, refuse? Does it need to be this way? What better teacher might we imagine for poetry than a downtrodden, reviled, forgettable entity like trash? How culpable are regimes of disposability in our current endlessly escalating ecological spasm? Drawing on the plastic insights and scrappy poetics of Max Liboiron, Tommy Pico, and Jordan Abel, this workshop will use a group analytical exercise to break down and reorganize lines of a specific text into a communal poem–not erasure but subversive upcycling. Participants should bring in a piece of garbage that has a story behind it, leading to a conversation about the ethics and aesthetics of waste, and ultimately a writing exercise emerging from the formal techniques we’ve examined and explored together. Together, we will seek to find some salve in salvage.

David Huebert’s work has won The Walrus Poetry Prize, the CBC Short Story Prize, and the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Award. David is the author of two poetry collections, We Are No Longer The Smart Kids in Class and Humanimus, a finalist for the JM Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award. In 2024, he published his debut novel, Oil People, which was shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. David teaches in the MFA program at the University of King’s College in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, where he lives with his partner and children.