Double Book Launch and Triple Poetry Reading | Christine Wu, Jessy MacEachern and Geneviève Robichaud

Wednesday, April 30, 7pm

Join us on the final day of National Poetry Month for a Double Book Launch and Triple Poetry Reading, hosted by Geneviève Robichaud (Sackville, NB). The evening will include readings by the host and the authors of two new Canadian poetry collections: Familial Hungers by Christine Wu and Cut Side Down by Jessi MacEachern.

Christine Wu is a Chinese-Canadian poet who was born and raised on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh (Vancouver, BC). She was the winner of the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award and was shortlisted for the RBC Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. She now lives and writes in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, NS) in Mi’kma’ki.

Jessi MacEachern, born in Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island, currently lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where she teaches English literature. As a poet, professor, and scholar of contemporary feminist poetics, her critical and creative writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada and around the world.

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