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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: EMMA Talks at SFU
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books will be selling books offsite at the tenth EMMA Talks with writer and facilitator Vivek Shraya and artist and organizer Anoushka Ratnarajah! This EMMA event is also the Vancouver book launch for Vivek’s new book\, I’m Afraid of Men. \nEvent details here: https://www.sfu.ca/sfuwoodwards/events/events1/2018-fall/EMMATalks-VivekShraya-AnoushkaRatnarajah.html
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-emma-talks-at-sfu/
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch - "Port of Being" by Shazia Hafiz Ramji
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books on October 3rd for the launch of Shazia Hafiz Ramji’s debut trade poetry collection\, “Port of Being\,” \n\n\nwinner of the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Out via Invisible Publishing.\n\n\n \n\n\nHosted by Kevin Spenst and including readings by Shazia Hafiz Ramji\, Junie Desil\, David Ly\, and Jen Currin\, this will be a night of poetry you won’t want to miss!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-launch-port-of-being-by-shazia-hafiz-ramji/
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SUMMARY:Double Reading: Bill Stenson and Linda Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at a double reading celebrating Bill Stenson’s Ordinary Strangers: A Novel (Winner of the Great BC Novel Contest) & Crow Jazz\, the debut collection of short fiction by poet Linda Rogers. \nThursday\, October 4 | 7 pm\nBook will be for sale on-site. \nAbout Ordinary Strangers:\nThis astonishing novel begins at a fair on a hot August day in 1971 in Hope\, BC. Sage and Della Howard are driving to Fernie to start a job and begin a new life. They stop for a break\, and find a crying toddler in the nearby woods and continue their journey with her. A tragic-comedy thriller that takes you to the other side of happenstance and fear. \n“Bill Stenson’s stories fly easily as kites in a blue sky in the best wind. However high they soar — often high indeed — they are as down-to-earth as honey and jam. A fine and fascinating collection.”\n— Leon Rooke \n“Like Twain and Kinsella\, Bill Stenson’s work has a glint in its eye. Make room on your shelf for his stories\, and make his characters feel welcome\, for they are people you know.”\n— Bill Gaston \nAbout Crow Jazz:\nA dazzling first collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s most accomplished poets. The 22 tales in Crow Jazz reveal clever crow energy; bird’s-eye views of the new human community. Shape-changing characters\, child survivors of adult narcissism and social alienation\, eat crow and reinvent themselves to fit aspirational narratives through mirth\, rebirth and compassion. \n“Fuelled by a poet’s sensorium and word mischief\, Crow Jazz is a jostling ride that\, story after story\, is funny\, angry\, wise\, and wild. It’s a perfect title.”–Bill Gaston\, author of Juliet Was a Surprise \n“In the early stories of Crow Jazz\, a fierce laughing girl-child falls for birds and words\, discovers sex\, plays tricks\, sees through hypocrisy\, takes revenge\, loves the natural world. That sensibility appears often in Linda Rogers’ varied characters\, in stories often presenting a strong mix of pain and comedy\, such as “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Shock Therapy.” On every page\, Rogers’ imagery shines like a crow’s glossy wing.”–Cynthia Flood\, author of What Can You Do.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/double-reading-bill-stenson-and-linda-rogers/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Food Was Her Country by Marusya Bociurkiw
DESCRIPTION:How can a god-fearing Catholic\, immigrant mother and her godless\, bohemian daughter possibly find common ground? Come find out when Marusya Bociurkiw’s “Food Was Her Country” launches at Massy Books! \nFood Was Her Country is the story of a mother\, her queer daughter and their tempestuous culinary relationship. From accounts of 1970s’ macrobiotic potlucks to a dangerous mother-daughter road trip in search of lunch\, this book is funny\, dark and tender in turn. \nMarusya Bociurkiw’s “Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl” was a food writing phenomenon: the world’s first LGBTQ food memoir. With this long-awaited follow-up\, “Food Was Her Country” draws upon a queer archive of art and activism\, stories from her popular food blog\, Recipes for Trouble\, as well as social histories of food\, evoking new beginnings and fresh ways of tasting the world. \n“An un-put-down-able memoir! Daughter Marusya and mother Vera carry food while traversing ‘spaces large as continents’ between them—to find love\, grief and love again.”\n—Cynthia Flood\, author of What Can You Do \n“Emblematic of a specific Canadian generation: a child of immigrants finds feminism and lesbian life pulling her far from her family’s expectations and demands. Yet\, in this moving memoir\, Marusya Bociurkiw reveals how both mother and daughter fought for a relationship on new terms\, where both could retain their autonomy without controlling the other’s life. The author’s discoveries are illuminating for the reader\, and articulate possibilities of understanding with individuation\, rarely imagined or realized.”\n—Sarah Schulman\, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse. \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-food-was-her-country-by-marusya-bociurkiw/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260606T181305
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Our Diversity: An Evening of Readings
DESCRIPTION:Join massy Books and Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd. as we celebrate new works by Sanjay Talreja (Downward This Dog)\, C Fong Hsiung (New Land Same Sky)\, Kagiso Lesego Molope (Such a Lonely\, Lovely Road)\, and Julia Lin (Shadows of the Crimson Sun) with an evening of readings. \nCome hear from three exciting new releases from the publishing house that Canadian literature says is “changing our understanding of the Canadian literary landscape through its innovative publications.” \nAbout Downward This Dog:\nThese sardonic\, wry\, and sometimes playful stories\, set in Toronto and the Indian subcontinent\, describe the lives of people caught in diverse situations characterized by their recent unsettled\, alien status. A disgruntled yoga teacher; an ardent epistolarian; a school custodian who has lost a winning lottery ticket; a young woman whose dentist may be touching her inappropriately; a disillusioned retiree obsessed by food; a chef dreaming of a chain of restaurants; a man who has turned away from religious fundamentalism–these and others find sustenance and exploitation\, love and disillusion\, and sheer luck as they attempt to locate meaning and weave historical order within their larger universe. \n“Downward this Dog is a beautifully written\, insightful testament to the bravery of ordinary life\, exploring themes of religion\, family\, love\, marriage\, money\, success and failure.”\n—Lisa de Nikolits\, author of No Fury Like That \nAbout New Land Same Sky:\nThe Sino-Indian war has ended. The Chinese community in Calcutta (Kolkata)\, feeling threatened and facing discrimination\, begins to look for ways to emigrate. By the seventies they are flocking to Canada legally or otherwise. Wen-Lung\, a young man in his twenties\, goes away on a tourist visa to Toronto where he marries Megan\, a white Canadian woman\, in order to obtain his legal papers. He leaves behind his pregnant wife\, Maylei and a two-year old son. When Maylei arrives in Toronto a few years later\, the union is far from ideal because Wen-Lung is still attached to Megan. To complicate matters further\, Maylei meets her former lover Keith\, an Anglo-Indian. When Maylei returns to India to see her aging parents\, she finds herself caught in the midst of a race riot. \nA touching story of modern exile and immigration\, of the pain of leaving and the joy of freedom\, set in Tangra\, the leather district of Calcutta\, and in Toronto’s neighbourhoods. \nAbout Such a Lonely\, Lovely Road:\nComing out in South Africa … At what cost? \nAll his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect child to his doting absent parents\, who show him off every chance they get. Both his parents and his small community look forward to him coming back after medical school and joining his father’s practice. They also plan to give him the perfect township wedding. But Kabelo’s one wish has always been to get as far away from the township as he possibly can and never come back. A few weeks before he leaves for university\, however\, he forms a close bond with Sediba\, one of his childhood friends\, confirming his long-held suspicion that he is gay. Their relationship is thrown into turmoil by social pressures and conflicting desires\, and it starts to look as if they can’t be together. But against all odds the two young men make their way back to each other\, risking scorn from the community that raised them. \nIn her characteristic\, beautifully modulated voice\, with razor-sharp clarity\, Kagiso Lesego Molope tackles an urgent issue in her country of birth. \n“Such a Lonely\, Lovely Road is at once fascinating and unforgettable. Set in the new South Africa slowly recovering from decades of apartheid\, it tells the complex story of Kabelo and Sediba\, two men finding love and navigating the difficult terrain of race\, homophobia in the black community and family ties. Molope writes a riveting tale of finding self and finding love in this gripping story of men in love in post-independence South Africa.” \n—Jude Dibia\, author of Blackbird. \nAbout Shadows of the Crimson Sun: \nAfter the Russian invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria (Manchukuo) in 1945\, fourteen-year-old Akihisa Takayama escapes with his family to their ancestral Taiwan. Here they find themselves under the brutal Chinese dictatorship of the Kuomintang. In the 1960s\, now a physician calling himself Charles Yang\, he escapes with his young family to the United States\, from where they finally go on to Canada to become among the first Taiwanese Canadians in Vancouver. Charles Yang’s experiences illuminate the “White Terror” of Taiwan\, and the geopolitical dispute between Communist China and Taiwan over the meaning of “One China.” This is a rare\, humane\, and personal account of the little known histories of Manchukuo and Taiwanese immigration to North America. \n“. . . seamlessly interweaves history and memory in this fascinating narrative . . . compelling.”\n–CD Alison Bailey\, Dept of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/mawenzi-house-event/
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SUMMARY:This is For the Women Who Don't Give a F*ck - Janne Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Author Janne Robinson will be in-store October 16th for an evening of book signing\, storytelling\, Q + A\, and more. \nTickets and more information can be found here: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/this-is-for-the-women-who-dont-give-a-fuck-reading-book-signing-tickets-51150657995
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/this-is-for-the-women-who-dont-give-a-fck-janne-robinson/
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SUMMARY:Poets Corner
DESCRIPTION:Poets Corner Presents: \nPenn Kemp and Sharon Thesen \nWednesday October 17\, 7:00 – 9:00 pm \nThis month we have two talented poets. Prolific writer and performance artist Penn Kemp will be reading from her just-released Fox Haunts. Joining her is Sharon Thesen\, a Governor-General’s Award and Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award finalist. Our regular Open Mic segment is back\, too. A reminder that our start time is now 7:00pm.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-reading-tba-8/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181020T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181020T213000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - The Little Book of Cannabis Infused Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books offsite for the infused launch of Amanda Siebert’s “The Little Book of Cannabis: How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life.” \n  \nKey details \n\nWhen: Saturday\, October 20\, 2018\, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. **The weekend after legislation**\nWhere: Suite Genius event space (#300 225 West 8 th Avenue\, Vancouver)\nWho: 60-70 guests\, a mix of new consumers\, industry professionals\, and media\n\nWhat: Canada’s first-ever legally infused book launch\n\n\nBook signing + reading\nAppearances from experts in the book\nCatering and beer & wine\, exclusive door prizes\nPre-rolls\, rolling trays\, covered outdoor areas for consumption **There will be cannabis at the launch**\nAll ticket proceeds donated to @CannabisAmnesty\n\n\n\nCost: $5 per person
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-the-little-book-of-cannabis-infused-launch-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181022T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Gord Hill\, "The ANTIFA Comic Book"
DESCRIPTION:Join author and comics artist Gord Hill October 22nd at Massy Books to celebrate the release of “The ANTIFA Comic Book.” \nThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville\, Virginia\, in the summer of 2017 linger\, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. In this stirring graphic non-fiction book by the author of The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book\, Gord Hill looks at the history of fascism over the last 100 years\, and the concurrent antifa movements that have worked fastidiously to topple it. \nFascism is a relatively new political ideology\, yet in its short history some of the greatest atrocities against humanity have been carried out in its name. Its poisonous roots have taken hold in every region of the world\, from its beginnings in post-World War I Italy\, through Nazi Germany\, Franco’s Spain\, and the KKK in America. And today\, emboldened by the American president\, fascism is alive and well again. At the same time\, antifa activists have proven\, throughout history and again today\, that the spirit of resistance is alive and well\, and necessary. \nIn The Antifa Comic Book\, Gord Hill documents these powerful moments of conflict and confrontation with a perceptive eye and a powerful sense of resolve.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-gord-hill-the-antifa-comic-book/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181023T190000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: CBC Massey Lectures 2018 with Tanya Talaga
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling copies of All My Relations and Seven Fallen Feathers for the Tanya Talaga Massey lecture at the York Theatre. Tickets and more information can be found at https://thecultch.com/events/cbc-massey-lecture-search-better-world/
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-cbc-massey-lectures-2018-with-tanya-talaga/
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SUMMARY:Genocide\, Child Welfare\, and the Way Ahead
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce this evening with jaye simpson and Tamara Starblanket in collaboration with Heart of the City Festival.\n\n\n \n\n\nGenocide\, Child Welfare\, and the Way Ahead: an evening of discussion with jaye simpson and Tamara Starblanket.\n\n\n\nJoin us October 24th\, when writer\, advocate\, and activist jaye simpson will discuss their experience as survivor of the child welfare system and their solutions to this destructive system. Tamara Starblanket\, author of Suffer the Little Children\, Genocide\, Indigenous Nations\, and the Canadian State (https://www.claritypress.com/Starblanket.html)\, will conclude with a discussion of the forcible removal of Indigenous Peoples’ children as a crime of genocide. She will demonstrate that the residential school and the child welfare system are criminal and suggest ways to move forward through self-determination. \njaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Two Spirit\, former youth in care who uses their perspective to speak to the complexities of intersectional identities in the foster care system. \nTamara Starblanket is Spider Woman\, a Nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She holds an LLM from the University of Saskatchewan\, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia\, is the Co-Chair of the North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus\, and presently coordinates and teaches in the criminology program at Native Education College in Vancouver\, BC. \n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe event is all-ages.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/suffer-the-little-children-by-tamara-starblanket-a-reading-in-collaboration-with-the-heart-of-the-city-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181025T190000
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SUMMARY:Hope Matters: An Evening with Lee Maracle and Columpa Bobb.
DESCRIPTION:Writer and elder Lee Maracle and Columpa Bobb read from their upcoming work\, Hope Matters. Lee Maracle is a member of the Stó:lō nation and one of the first Indigenous female authors to be published in Canada. With a career of over four decades\, she has written award-winning books in a multitude of genres\, including the recent My Conversations with Canadians. Jessie Award-winner and two time Dora Award-nominee Columpa Bobb has been an arts practitioner for twenty-four years as an actor\, playwright\, photographer\, poet and teacher. Hope Matters\, also co-written by Tania Carter\, “is a collection of poetry focused on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.” Written with her two daughters over years\, Maracle says\, “in the end our voice blended into a song of hope and reconciliation.” Presented in partnership with Massy Books.  \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/lee-maracle-at-massy-books/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181026T173000
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SUMMARY:Community Event: Surrey Muse
DESCRIPTION:Surrey Muse: Arts and literary event featuring poet Jónína Kirton\, author Fauzia Rafique and performer Larry Nicholson. Featuring a book signing by author Craig Wilson Ruttle. Open microphone to follow and begins with Katheren Szabo. Hosted by Sonja Grgar. \nFree Admission.\nDate and time: Friday\, October 26/2018\, 5:30-8:30 pm\nLocation: Room 405\, City Centre Branch of Surrey Public Library\, 10350 University Dr\, Surrey\, BC V3T 4C3\nEvent website: www.surreymuse.wordpress.com
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/community-event-surrey-muse/
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SUMMARY:Tree Shaman - Lydia Kwa in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books is proud to present “tree shaman\,” an exhibition of photo-based works and accompanying chapbook by Vancouver writer and clinical psychologist Lydia Kwa. \nJoin us for an opening party on October 26th at 7PM\, and stop by any time through November 22 to catch her work in the Massy Gallery. \n“I walked east along the avenue and saw the cut\nstumps of the birch tree. I surmised the tree must\nhave developed some kind of disease\, and\nthe Parks Board people had to come cut it down. \nI was seized with an urge to photograph the dead\,\ndismembered tree. Three days later\, on 24th August\n2015\, I went to buy an old Polaroid camera\, and\nloaded it with film made by the Impossible Project. \nTwo rolls—eight shots in the morning; and eight\nlater that same afternoon. \nThree years later\, this project has come to fruition.” \nProceeds from the sale of this chapbook will be\ndonated to Pacific Wild Alliance\n(pacificwildalliance.org). \nAbout Lydia Kwa: \nLydia lives and works in Vancouver as a clinical psychologist and a writer. She went to University of Toronto to do a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology\, then spent 7 years at Queen’s University in Kingston getting her MA and PhD. While at Queen’s\, she started to take her writing more seriously and would drop into a writers’ group that met on the top floor of the Grad Club on Monday nights. In 1989\, the poems she submitted to two campus periodicals won prizes. It was also the year her poems were first published in a Canadian literary magazine: CV2 out of Winnipeg\, Manitoba. \nToday\, Lydia works out of her own office as a full-time psychologist at the edge of Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. She has several published books\, including: This Place Called Absence\, The Walking Boy\, Pulse\, and her latest work— sinuous\, a long poem that spans about fourteen years\, and covers various experiences of living in Canada\, including her reflections on the nature of trauma\, the resilience of the human spirit\, and the healing that comes from practices such as meditation and ki aikido.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/tree-shaman-lydia-kwa-in-the-massy-gallery-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181027T210000
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SUMMARY:Flavours of Hope Presents: Storied Cuisine: A Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs and Cultural Food
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to be hosting Flavours of Hope on October 27th for “Storied Cuisine: A Celebration of Women Entrepreneurs and Cultural Food.” \n\n\n \n\n\nThis non-profit social enterprise supports and empowers newcomer women to earn a living wage and build social connections in communities through cooking and sharing culinary traditions and stories.\n\n\n \n\n\nAt this event\, you’ll hear the stories of three inspiring Flavours of Hope refugee newcomer women chefs – from Venezuela\, Mexico and Palestine – and learn about their personal connection to each traditional dish they serve you. You’ll also experience a delicious array of desserts from local food blogger extraordinaire\, Fanny Lam of Oh Sweet Day!\n\n\n \n\n\nEach ticket includes one wine or beer\, appetizers\, desserts\, and a delicious bag of Oh Sweet Day goodies to take home. \n\n\nGet your tickets below!\n\n\n \n\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/storied-cuisine-a-celebration-of-women-entrepreneurs-and-cultural-food-tickets-50887242111
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/flavours-of-hope-fundraiser/
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SUMMARY:Launch: Fireworks by Jules Boykoff\, with Special Guest Hari Alluri
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books on Halloween night for the launch of Jules Boykoff’s new collection of poetry\, Fireworks\, from Tinfish Press. Boykoff will be joined by Hari Alluri and Junie Désil! \nOct 31st\, 7pm\, Free Entry. \nAbout Jules and Fireworks: \nJules Boykoff is a serious man. Jules Boykoff is a critic of global capitalism\, especially as manifest in the Olympic movement\, about which he has written three important books. Jules Boykoff is a serious champion of whatever is anti-hegemonic\, anti-hierarchical\, and anti-patriarchal. Jules Boykoff is a serious family man. Jules Boykoff is also full of what he calls “felonious spunk\,” in a poem called “Overdetermination Meets Polysemy in a Two-Fall-Ten-Minute-Time-Limit\, Pay-Per-View Cage Match at the Convention Center in Portland\, Oregon.” In other words\, Jules Boykoff is a wordslinger\, his third book of poems offering content strained through many forms (including collages and photographs)\, but always walking a tightrope between anger\, angst\, and puckish punsterism. Reminiscent to this reader of the mad tonal shifts of The Death of Stalin\, this book shows us a different mode of resistance\, one that with mordant wit seeks to destroy the humorless flat acreage of incipient (or actual) fascism. \nAbout Hari Alluri: \nHari Alluri\, who immigrated to Vancouver\, Coast Salish territories at age twelve\, is the author of Carving Ashes (CiCAC\, 2013) and The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel\, 2016). An award-winning poet\, educator\, and teaching artist\, his work appears widely in anthologies\, journals and online venues\, including Chautauqua\, Poemeleon and Split This Rock. He is a founding editor at Locked Horn Press\, where he has co-edited two anthologies\, Gendered & Written: Forums on Poetics andRead America(s): An Anthology. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and\, along with the Federico Moramarco Poetry International Teaching Prize\, he has received VONA/Voices and Las Dos Brujas fellowships and a National Film Board of Canada grant. Hari currently serves as editor of pacific Review in San Diego\, Kumeyaay land. \n\n\n\n\nAbout June Désil: \nJunie Désil is a Haitian/Canadian settler poet who has performed at various literary events and festivals. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine\, and was recently shortlisted for Prism International’s Pacific Poetry Prize\, and has work currently published in PRISM International’s Summer 2018 Issue. Junie currently works on the traditional territories of Coast Salish peoples and lives on Qayqayt First Nation (New Westminster)\, juggling writing and life.\n.\n.\n.\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries. \nThe event is all-ages\, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/jules-boykoff-launch/
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