nina jane drystek’s poetry, prose & performance explore the curiosities of language & sound. she is the co-founder & co-curator of Riverbed Reading Series with Ellen Chang-Richardson & sits on the editorial board of Arc Poetry Magazine. in the day-to-day, she is the manager of digital communications a  Spruce Creative. on this site you can explore her work & learn more about the ongoing & upcoming.

latest news:

• nina jane will be part of the Audience Amp marketing forum in Ottawa on April 9, 2025
• LMNTS, an anthology of concrete poetry, is launching in Toronto at the Arraymusic on April 19 at and will feature a performance of sound poetry by contributors and adjacent poets performed by nina jane, jw curry & Chris Johnson
• the anthology Speech Dries Here on the Tongue is included in the CBC Book spring poetry list

new work:

• you can find the poem “nest” in the anthology Speech Dries Here on the Tongue on the Tongue alongside poems by poets AJ Dolman, Conyer Clayton, Grace Lau, Brandon Wint, Dominique Parisien and Khashayar Mohammadi, eds. Hollay Ghadery, Rasiqra Revulva and Amanda Shankland which is out in Spring 2025
• nina jane’s concrete presentations of the visual poem “to look / to die” will be published in LMNTS, an anthology of concrete poetry, in Spring 2025
• the sound poem “listening to the universe: meteorite” was published in The Ex Puritan
• missing matrilineal was reviewed by Jaclyn Desforges in the Hamilton Review of Books
• two experimental visual poems are forthcoming with Hellebore in fall 2023
• the audio version of “a : of : in” (Gap Riot Press 2021) is now available on bandcamp
• read “vessel punish honey”, selected as an honourable mention for the Canthius’ 2022 Priscila Uppal Memorial Award for Poetry, judged by Liz Howard 
• watch a performance of the sound poem awash as part of the Cosmic Chemistry performance (you can also watch the out the full event, including a duet with Grant Wilkins at 2:20)