“Fiona Lam plans to seek out mothers in parks and pregnant passengers on the SkyTrain . . . . In Edmonton, Jannie Edwards and Wendy McGrath will read at the city’s Waste Management Plant.” Yes, it’s Random Acts of Poetry Week in Canda, and 27 poets from around the country will be “popping into parks, hair salons, cafés, supermarkets, libraries and wherever else tickles their fancy to delight randomly chosen strangers with bursts of poetry.” According to a Globe & Mail story by Alexandra Gill, “The lucky few who encounter these strolling minstrels of verse will receive a free book of poetry,” courtesy of Abebooks.com, the Victoria-based on-line bookstore co-sponsoring the event with the Victoria READ Society. The British Columbia poet “who spearheaded the event,” Wendy Morton, says the acts “will be like an island of beauty in the middle of their day.” Or, as Vancouver poet Billeh Nickerson put it, “Reading poetry to strangers is a very intimate act. It’s kind of like a poetic lap dance.”