CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alessandra Naccarato
Rennie Hall, Emily Carr University, 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BCGrowing Room presents Transmuting Trauma, with panelists Alessandra Naccarato, author of Re-Origin of Species, Maneo Mohale, Addie Tsai, Corinne Manning. Moderator: Mercedes Eng. There is no linear nature to healing. Our journeys carry us back to our homelands, into the depths of personal legend, and even beyond, into the farthest imagined expanses of our own […]
CANCELLED: Growing Room Festival presents Alex Leslie
Native Education College 237 E 5th Ave, Vancouver, BCGrowing Room presents The Limit Does Not Exist: Boundless Forms, with panelists Alex Leslie, author of Vancouver for Beginners, Aisha Sasha John, Aimee Louw, and Carleigh Baker. Moderator: Phay Moores. Memoir in verse, autofiction, kinetic sculpture, lyric essays, performance poetry, music installations. Hybrid forms twist and shape traditional forms of storytelling in startling and revelatory […]
POSTPONED: The Axton Reading Series presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
University of Louisville 2301 S 3rd St., Louisville, KYThe Axton Reading Series presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill.
CANCELLED: An evening with Shani Mootoo, Moez Surani and Jay MillAr in Montreal
La Petite Drawn and Quartlery 176 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QuebecAn evening with Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Moez Surani (Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real), and Book*hug Co-Publisher Jay MillAr (I Could Have Pretended to Be Better Than You: New and Selected Poems, Anvil Press).
POSTPONED: The Axton Reading Series presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller
University of Louisville 2301 S 3rd St., Louisville, KYThe Axton Reading Series presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill.
POSTPONED: Writers Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo
York Amphitheatre (EV 1.605) Concordia University 1515 Ste-Catherine West, Montreal, QCWriters Read at Concordia University presents Shani Mootoo, author of Polar Vortex, and Helen Humphries: A Reading and Discussion in Conversation with Sina Queyras.
CANCELLED: Junction Reads presents Jess Taylor
House of Anansi Press 128 Stirling Road (Lower Level), Toronto, ONJunction Reads presents Jess Taylor, author of Just Pervs. Also reading: Nur Abdi, JR McConvey and Hannah Brown. PWYC, with a $5 suggestion.
POSTPONED: The Koffler’s Books & Ideas Series presents Shani Mootoo
720 Bathurst Street TorontoThe Koffler's Books & Ideas Series presents the launch of Shani Mootoo's new novel Polar Vortex, In Conversation with Catherine Bush. The launch of Giller Prize-nominated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo’s highly-anticipated new novel, Polar Vortex, about a couple – Priya and Alexandra – who have moved to a picturesque countryside town, only to […]
POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Reading with Kristen Renee Miller
Film Scene 404 E. College St., Iowa City, IAMission Creek Festival presents LIT WALK: Two Dollar Radio + Sarabande, with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. Free and open to the public.
POSTPONED: Mission Creek Festival presents a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller
Riverside Theatre 213 N Gilbert Street, Iowa City, IAMission Creek Festival presents “Behind This Roar, A Door”: A (Mis)translation Workshop for (Non)translators, a Workshop with Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill. What makes a poem in translation? Are human translators still needed in the age of auto-translate technology? Experiment with sound and translation—and craft a sonic poem of your own—in […]
