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SUMMARY:UNMET Book Launch Halifax
DESCRIPTION:The book launch for the poetry collection UNMET (Biblioasis) by stephanie roberts at the Halifax Central Library with Annick MacAskill.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/unmet-book-launch-halifax/
LOCATION:Halifax Central Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J1E9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch with Terese Mason Pierre
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 8th at 7pm in launching Terese Mason Pierre’s poetry collection\, Myth! Local poets Faith Paré and Misha Solomon will also be reading some of their work for us. Please register to let us know you’ll be attending.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-launch-with-terese-mason-pierre/
LOCATION:Halifax Central Library\, 5440 Spring Garden Road\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J1E9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch: Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 22\, 2025\, 7:00–9:30 pm ETmai/son (DM hosts for address)\n\n\n\nJoin Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek for the Montreal launch of their poetry collections\, Familial Hungers by Wu (Brick Books) and No One Knows Us There by Bebenek (Book*hug Press). \n\n\n\nFeaturing guest reader Liz Howard and musical guest Andrew Whiteman.  \n\n\n\nBYOBAdmission is free. All are welcome to attend. \n\n\n\nMessage Jessica Bebenek at @notyrmuse or Christine Wu at @homemadepoem on Instagram for the address. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout No One Knows Us There\n\n\n\nIn this stunning debut collection\, Bronwen Wallace Award finalist Jessica Bebenek presents two distinct and moving portraits of early womanhood. The first is that of the devoted\, caregiving granddaughter navigating hospital hallways and the painful realities of palliative care. The second is that of a woman a decade older\, compassionately looking back on her younger self. In this second half\, Bebenek rewrites poems from the first\, honouring unimaginable loss and turning it into genuine healing. \n\n\n\nJessica Bebenek is a queer interdisciplinary poet and educator from Tkaronto (Toronto) who now splits her time between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and an off-grid shack on unceded Anishinaabeg territory. She works as a risograph printer and bookmaker at Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics\, where she organized the international Occult Poetics Symposium. In 2021\, Bebenek was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust of Canada RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her writing has been nominated for the Journey Prize and Pushcart Prize\, and she is the author of eight poetry chapbooks\, including I Remember the Exorcism. No One Knows Us There is her first book of poetry. \n\n\n\nAbout Familial Hungers\n\n\n\nBittersweet\, numbingly spicy\, herbal and milky\, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Ginger scallion fish\, Sichuan peppercorns\, ginseng tea\, Chinese school and white chefs – the reader’s appetite is satiated with these poems’ complex palate. There are the bubbling expectations for immigrant daughters\, the chewy strands of colonial critique\, and dissolving crystals of language loss. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging\, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow. \n\n\n\nChristine Wu is a Chinese-Canadian poet who was born and raised on the territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver\, BC). She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria\, a MLIS from Dalhousie University\, and a MA in English from the University of New Brunswick. In 2023\, she was the winner of the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award and in 2022\, she was shortlisted for the RBC Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She now lives and writes in Kjipuktuk (Halifax\, NS) in Mi’kma’ki.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-launch-christine-wu-and-jessica-bebenek/
LOCATION:Quebec
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