Yvette Doucette
Poet Yvette Doucette lives in Charlottetown, PEI, in an orange house, surrounded by elegant elms, bendable birch, happy horse chestnuts, and a beautiful perennial garden in the front yard. She is mother to Uma and Mathurin, and is married to Mark Carr-Rollitt.
The Island is as a character in many of her poems. The themes of nature, motherhood, love, loss, and death dominate her writing, which has been described as “lush, sensuous, and heart-driven.”
She has written and performed monologues at the Guild in Charlottetown as part of the show Solo Works, and on Victoria Row as part of a summer Jazz and Poetry on the street series organized by poet and educator, Richard Lemm. In 2006 and 2007 she was commissioned by CBC to write for, and compete in, the Island portion of the CBC Poetry Face Off. Her poetry has been published in Letting Go: An Anthology of Loss and Survival (Black Moss, 2005), and in Arts East Online (2011 Summer). She is working (slowly) on a book about the Island music scene, and polishing up her first poetry manuscript draft titled, “Y.”
For the past four years she has facilitated after-school creative writing groups for students at Bluefield High and also for some dynamic, young women writers (aged 12-16) at her home. She won the 2011 Island Literary Award for Young Writers Service. She draws inspiration and joy from these volunteer activities and is simply amazed at how fast the break-time snacks disappear.
Yvette is almost two years into a full-time gig at The PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada, where she is Information Officer and works with the most wonderful folks.
You can find some of Yvette’s poetry online here.
She is a founding member of WWW.
(–updated January 2013)
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; [...]
August 13, 2012 at 12:01 pm
[...] weekend coincided with a reading by four other writers: Christy Ann Conlin, Bonnie Stewart, Yvette Doucette and Kate Inglis. It was lovely to attend the reading as part of our [...]