To hear Kathy Fisher perform her poetry is to open yourself to deeper incantations of the human heart and soul. The melodic rhythm of her words, bordering on music, frames journeys of joy and loss, of love and death, of the spirit and the sensual. Since her early beginnings in Montreal, she has wandered the world in a quest for rich experience and a deeper understanding of this human life. Let her share her journey with you.

Kathy Fisher is an Edmonton-based, Montreal-born multidisciplinary artist, performance poet and documentarian. A host in the local literary and spoken word scene, Fisher regularly produces and hosts evenings of words and music whose poetry has been published in traditional and on-line literary journals. A keen collaborator, she regularly performs spoken word and song with a roster of musicians. In 2023, she wrote, directed and produced her Spanish-flu themed show, Vox Virago, as part of The Travellers, a six-person ensemble. Recent poetry commissions and performances include two tribute poems honouring colleagues at McGill Law School, where she had her first poems published 40 years ago. Her video-poem wabi-sabi, co-produced in collaboration with filmmaker Louise Abbott, screened in LA in November 2024 at The Film and Poetry Symposium where she performed a lively poetry reading. 

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