In this event, Indigenous writers Selina Boan and Molly Cross-Blanchard will read from their recent collections and meet in conversation for a rich discussion about poetry, process, and cross-genre creativity. 

Location: Rink Room

Sponsored by Pace Accounting and The Metro Vancouver Regional Cultural Grant

Type: Panel, Reading · Guest Indigenous Curator Michelle Cyca Programming

Moderator: Molly Cross-Blanchard, Exhibitionist (Coach House Books)

Reader: Selina Boan, Undoing Hours (Harbour Publishing)

Molly Cross-Blanchard

MOLLY CROSS-BLANCHARD is a white and Métis poet, writer, and editor born on Treaty 3 (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 (Prince Albert, SK), and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, cka Vancouver. She currently teaches Indigenous Studies and Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her book of poetry is Exhibitionist (Coach House Books 2021).

Selina Boan

Selina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer and educator living on the traditional, unceded territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples.

Her debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours won the 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. Her work has been published widely, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She is a poetry editor for CV2.