Events | Book*hug Press - Part 8

Toronto Public Library’s new poetry series re:verses, and curator Phoebe Wang present Hana Shafi

Toronto Public Library, Palmerston Branch 560 Palmerston Ave., Toronto, ON

Toronto Public Library's new poetry series re:verses and curator Phoebe Wang present Poetry and Acts of Care, an evening of poetry with Hana Shafi, author of It Begins with the Body, and Soraya Peerbaye. Phoebe Wang curates an evening to explore how poetry can embody acts of care for ourselves and for today's urgent issues. […]

Free

Pivot Reading Series presents Johanna Skibsrud and Moez Surani

Tranzac Club, Tiki Room 292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada

Pivot Reading Series presents Pivot Episode III, Johanna Skibsrud (The Nothing That Is) and Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real). Also reading: Hugh Thomas and Jasmine Gui. Doors at 7:15pm. Readings begin at 8pm.

Free

NYU English Department presents Johanna Skibsrud and Pam Dick

NYU English Department Event Space New York City, NY

NYU English Department presents a reading with Johanna Skibsrud, author of The Nothing That Is, and Pam Dick. Presented by the Organism for Poetic Research. Hosted by Rachael Wilson

Free

Whistler Writers Festival presents Lee Maracle

Maury Young Arts Centre 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, Canada

Whistler Writers Festival presents The Literary Cabaret, with Lee Maracle (Hope Matters and My  Conversations with Canadians), plus a host of other authors. The authors will read while musicians enhance their reading performances. Ticketed event.  

BookFest Windsor presents Gwen Benaway

School of Creative Arts (SoCA) The Armouries 37 University Avenue East, Windsor, ON

BookFest Windsor presentsBFW19 Panel #3: Poetry: with Gwen Benaway, author of Holy Wild. Also with Melanie Janisse Barlow and Jim Johnstone. Tickets for BookFest Windsor are on sale at Eventbrite or in person at Biblioasis Bookstore 1520 Wyandotte Street W., Windsor, or at the door before each event. All prices are listed on the BookFest […]

Whistler Writers Festival presents Shannon Webb-Campbell

Fairmont Château Whistler 4599 Chateau Blvd., Whistler, BC

Whistler Writers Festival presents New Voices Rising, with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of I am a Body of Land, and more. Ticketed event.

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter

The NEST (formerly Studio 1398) 3rd Floor, Festival House, 1398 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Hope Matters, with Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter. “Hope frees, hope relieves; hope moves us… In the end, Hope Matters.” So begins a powerful collection of poetry from literary matriarch, Lee Maracle, and her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, depicting the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonialism to […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Lee Maracle

The NEST (formerly Studio 1398) 3rd Floor, Festival House, 1398 Cartwright Street, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Lee Maracle: A Life’s Work. “A walking history book,” one of the most prolific Indigenous authors in Canada, recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and an Officer of the Order of Canada, mentor, teacher and Stó:lo— mythmaker/storyteller: Lee Maracle’s work in art and activism places her amongst the most influential—and […]

Vancouver Writers Fest presents Derek Mascarenhas

Performance Works 1218 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Vancouver Writers Fest presents The Fiction of Belonging, with Derek Mascarenhas, author of Coconut Dreams. Canada’s new generation of authors write powerfully to the challenge of balancing cultures and communities. Derek Mascarenhas’ nationally lauded Coconut Dreams traces Indian Canadian Aiden and Ally Pinto’s youth, growing up in a predominantly white Canadian suburb. First-generation cultural expectations […]

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