Smithers Arts & Culture News

The Smithers Library Poetry Contest ends tonight. They issued a challenge some weeks back to write a poem using the words...WING..READ..SMASH..& TEST. The poem could be Haiku..open verse or rhymed. They have 3 categorys..Children..Adult..and Teens. Below are my feeble attempts...

While wandering the snowswept streets of Smithers this afternoon I clomped the stuck snow off my winter boots and entered the local bookstore. All the new titles lay like a literary feast before my eyes. After purchasing a snowman Christmas...

..and river-torn snouts! Nice set of gills on this "smiley" eh? Hell..I'd swim 300 miles up some wild river to mate with this siren myself! Bet that got someone's attention!

Slydog is about to dust off some old scripts and attempt to entertain Smithers this winter with some good, old fashioned Murder Mystery Theatre. I used to do dinner theatre of this kind back in the late 1980's and early...