Join poets Sheryda Warrener and Jen Currin as they read their own work and the work of some of their favorite poets, using this work to discuss poetry as a living practice of reading, noticing, and writing.

Location: Poetry Tent, UBC Robson Square

Type: Poetry, In Conversation

Sponsored by League of Canadian Poets

Readers: Jen Currin, Trinity Street (House of Anansi Press) | Sheryda Warrener, Test Piece (Coach House Books)

About The Readers

Jen Currin’s most recent book is the poetry collection Trinity Street (House of Anansi, 2023). They have published five other books, including Hider/Seeker: Stories, which won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book; School (Coach House, 2014), which was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award; and The Inquisition Yours (Coach House, 2010), which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and was a finalist for a LAMBDA, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award. A white settler of mixed, mostly western European ancestry, Currin was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, and other tribes. They currently live on unceded Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwikwetlem, and Kwantlen Nation territories in New Westminster, BC and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. www.jencurrin.com

Sheryda Warrener is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Test Piece (Coach House, 2022). Her work can be found in Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Hazlitt, and The Believer, among other literary journals, and has been selected for the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry, and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry. She is a lecturer in poetry and interdisciplinary forms in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.