Yvette Doucette
Yvette Doucette lives in Charlottetown, PEI, in an orange house, surrounded by elegant elms, lovely birch, happy horse chestnuts, lots of fir trees, maple of two varieties—and a beautiful perennial garden in the front yard. She is mother to Uma (15) and Mathurin (13), and shares house with them and her partner Mark.
A poet and Islander, some of the themes that occupy her thoughts and writing are: curiosity, place, wonder, the earth and the body, loss, nature, what makes us tick, rhythm, sound, being a mother, love, the moon, the tides, and death. She is a founding member of WWW.
Yvette will be facilitator again this year to two after-school creative writing clubs with students—at Bluefield High School (thanks to Richard Baker), and with her new group for young women writers (Junior and Senior High) which is held at her home. She draws inspiration and joy from these volunteer activities and is simply amazed at how fast the break-time snacks disappear.
She is almost three months into a full-time gig at the PEI Association for Newcomers, where she is Information Officer and works with the most wonderful folks. She is currently working (slowly) on a book about the Island music scene, a screenplay, and polishing up her first poetry manuscript (with the fabulous help of Libby Oughton) draft titled, Body of Red, of Blue.
You can find some of Yvette’s poetry at: this town is small.
And hear her read occasionally at Red Earth Women Presents at the UPEI faculty lounge on the third Thursday of the month.
(–updated July 2011)
April 18, 2011 at 11:43 am
[...] company of her fellow Bluenoser Kate Inglis of sweet|salty and The Dread Crew, beautiful PEI poet Yvette Doucette, and, erm, moi. i’ll be reading from Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011, in whose [...]
May 26, 2011 at 12:52 pm
[...] and Life Writing”, also sponsored by the Writer’s guild and organized by the tireless Yvette Doucette . This was amazing for me as I’ve completed my first memoir and am promptly diving into my [...]
December 27, 2011 at 8:13 pm
[...] reading from Verbatim: A Novel. Joining me are Chris Benjamin, David Helwig, Hugh MacDonald , and Yvette Doucette. Chris, from Nova Scotia, will be here to do the PEI launch of his 2010 novel Drive-By Saviours; [...]