About

Hello, my name is Cathy Esther Thorne. I write personalized poems on a typewriter at events.

And yes, it’s just as much fun as it sounds!

I started writing poems for friends at small gatherings in Toronto. Word soon spread, and event planners began asking me to bring my typewriter to events too big for just one poet.

So I asked the most thoughtful and talented writers I knew to join me. As invitations started coming in from across the country, I found kindred poets in Vancouver and Ottawa to write with us.

We are now a band of over a dozen creatives with wonderfully diverse backgrounds: published authors, a comic artist, a filmmaker, collage and visual artists, a dancer, actors, and an art journaller. We're students and teachers who bring our typewriter poetry to small tables tucked into cozy corners, to lively conferences, or to the heart of grand banquet halls.

Our typewriters are retro and vintage, and make the loveliest click-clack sound.

Our poems are short, sweet, and sometimes cheeky.

We’re everyday people who delight in wordplay and would love to write a poem for you.