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SUMMARY:Poetry's Return to the Returning Body
DESCRIPTION:Open to all. \n\n\n\nLimited to 12 participants. \n\n\n\nWe plan to hold this workshop in person at the QWF office\, with up to two virtual slots available for people who are unable to come to our office. If public health conditions necessitate it\, this workshop may transition to a purely online model. \n\n\n\nWhat is the body returning to? If we are to call our meetings back in-person with each other following the ongoing upending resonances of pandemic years a return to something? To something we love\, but something also unfamiliar\, forgotten\, and that we feel distanced in our bodies from? How to orient ourselves in poetry? In our bodily orientations to place\, the city\, intimacy of everyday objects\, and with each other? In this in-person workshop\, we will explore the poetic spaces that collect our stories\, our memories\, and also the orientation of our bodies. What is queerness in this context? What can be written and shared about the feeling of queer returns? Public returns? Returns to the surroundings communities that have defined our feeling at home while being stuck at home\, longing for alternatives? We will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises\, followed by a period of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets\, artists\, and activists. The latter half of the session will be guided on editing and revision. We will end with an art project to commemorate our writing in this workshop experience.  \n\n\n\nIsabella Wang is the author of the chapbook\, On Forgetting a Language\, and her full-length debut\, Pebble Swing\, currently shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Among other recognitions\, she has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest\, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest\, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and three anthologies. She is completing a double-major in English and World Literature at SFU. She is also a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House and an Editorat Room magazine. \n\n\n\nSocial media: @isabellawangbc for both twitter and instagram\, https://www.facebook.com/bella.wang.16100 for Facebook
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LOCATION:QWF Office\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Room 3\, Westmount\, QC\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Down the Road and a World Away Poets' Tour: Montreal
DESCRIPTION:DOWN THE ROAD AND A WORLD AWAY: Readings from Writers Near and Far\nFeaturing EM DIAL\, FAREH MALIK\, DEEPA RAJAGOPALAN\, and ISABELLA WANG \nSaturday\, October 29\, 2022\nAdair Auditorium\, Atwater Library & Computer Centre\n4023 Tupper Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\nDoors open: 6:30 p.m. | Show: 7 p.m.\nIn English\nFREE! \nThe Atwater Poetry Project is thrilled to host the Montreal stop of this one-of-a-kind poetry tour of rising writing talent from across Canada\, including the 2020\, 2021\, and 2022 recipients of the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. The four poets will read from recent work before engaging in discussion on their emerging practices and writing in extraordinary times with APP Curator Faith Paré. \nDOWN THE ROAD AND A WORLD AWAY is organized in partnership with PEN Canada\, who will host the tour’s Toronto stop; the Literary Umbrella of Quebec; literary curator Linda Morra; and the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, who is organizing a writing workshop with guest poet Isabella Wang on the afternoon of October 29th. Additional support is provided by Simon Fraser University and Harbour Publishing. \nCopies of Fareh Malik’s STREAMS THAT LEAD SOMEWHERE (Mawenzi House\, 2022) and Isabella Wang’s PEBBLE SWING (Nightwood Editions\, 2021) will be available for sale thanks to this event’s bookselling partner\, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly. \nLOCATION\, ACCESSIBILITY\, AND HEALTH & SAFETY INFORMATION: \nThe entrance to the library is located at 4023 TUPPER STREET on the south side of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. Please note that the main entrance to the library (via Atwater Avenue) will NOT be accessible. \nThe Atwater Library is proudly wheelchair accessible. Access to an elevator that leads up to the Adair Auditorium (2nd floor) is available via the Tupper Street entrance. Watch the library’s guided tour to elevator use here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QsHGwziiA. A washroom with access for wheelchairs and mobility devices is also available on the 2nd floor. If you have any questions or concerns about accessing the building\, please contact the APP Curator by email (poetry@atwaterlibrary.ca)\, or the Atwater Library team by phone during working hours (514-935-7344\, Monday to Friday\, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.). \nPlease keep our community safe. Personnel on site will highly encourage the wearing of masks in the Adair Auditorium. Medical masks and KN95s will be available to attendees upon entry. Please note that the readers and the moderators may remove their masks when performing or addressing the audience.
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LOCATION:Atwater Library Auditorium\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, 2nd floor\, Westmount\, QC
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