Readings & Events

Against Death US Launch

Reading with contributors Emma Smith-Stevens, CM Faulkner and special guests Porochista Khakpour (Sick) and Nick Flynn (I Will Destroy You).

Pivot Reading Series

Reading from Trauma Head with Commonplace Podcast Host Rachel Zucker as she launches Soundmachine, her tenth book, and Ruth Daniell launching The Brightest Thing.

Trauma Head Boston-Area Launch

Join us at Newtonville Books for a double reading with Joan Naviyuk Kane.

Franco-Anglo Reading

An evening of bilingual readings (French- and English-language) to celebrate the launch of Vancouver-based writer’s Elee Kraljii Gardiner’s poetry book Trauma Head and the anthology Against Death: 35 Essays on Living. Invited readers are Anita Anand, Françoise Major, and Chloé Savoie-Bernard. The event will be hosted by Melissa Bull.
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Vous êtes convié.e.s à une soirée de lectures bilingues (en français et en anglais) à l’occasion du lancement du recueil de poèmes Trauma Head de l’écrivaine vancouvéroise Elee Kraljii Gardiner, et du collectif Against Death: 35 Essays on Living, qu’elle a dirigé. Anita Anand, Françoise Major et Chloé Savoie-Bernard se joindront à elle au micro lors de cette soirée animée par Melissa Bull.

Against Death Launch with Nikki Reimer

Featuring readings by Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Nikki Reimer & guests.

Against Death Launch

Poets Rise Up

A reading of eco poetry by A. Rajdeep Dhaliwal, Rita Wong, Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano and MC Lozan Yamolky. Rita was released on Sep 4 from prison where she was incarcerated for peaceful protest of the pipeline. I’ll read a poem of hers in celebration.

Roundtable on Memory, Congress 2019

I will be reading my poem on memory from the multidisciplinary anthology, Memory (Peter Wall Institute, 2018), and taking part in a panel roundtable with other contributors. More info here.

Alt-Congress

Reading with Juliane Okot Bitek, jays simpson, Isabella Wang, Cole Mash. Sherryda Warrener, Kevin Chong, Clint Burnham, Anne Simpson, Joel Katelnikoff, Jordan Abel,  Heather Jessup, Thor Polukoshko, Mackenzie Ground, Mandy Len Catron.

Lunch Poems

Reading with Joseph Dandurand.

Reading with Matt Rader

Matt is launching Visual Inspection , a multi-genre text about disability and illness, and I’ll be reading from Trauma Head.

Downtown Eastside Writers Collective

I’ll be reading and leading some writing prompts!