Join four dynamic queer poets for short readings and a discussion about the craft of writing poetry.

Moderator: Guest LGBTQIA2S+ Curator Jen Currin

Readers: kitchen mckeown, i need not be good (Rahila’s Ghost Press) | David Ly, Dream of Me as Water (Palimpsest Press) | Jane Shi, echolalia echolalia (Brick Books) | Kayla Czaga, Midway (House of Anansi Press)

Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Alex Leslie, and Hasan Namir will give short readings of their work and discuss their experiences as writers who work across genres, including creative non-fiction, new media, poetry, children’s literature, the short story, and the novel.

Moderator: LGBTQIA2S+ Curator Jen Currin

Readers: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Wrist (Kegedonce Press) | Hasan Namir, Banana Dream (Holiday House, Neal Porter Books) | Alex Leslie, Vancouver for Beginners (Book*hug Press)