Rita Wong
Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, part of the BC Book Prizes in Poetry, Forage is a vividly described, fierce commentary on our international political landscape and the injustices it breeds, this collection of poems holds sharply modern and timely opinions. It also features marginalia, Chinese characters and photos to give depth to the poetry’s political context. Bridging cultures and contexts, Forage “manages to be instructive without being pedantic, thought-provoking while still calling forth humor and beauty.”
Wong received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award in 1997, and her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Ribsauce: a CD/Anthology of Words by Women, The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War, Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry, Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English, and also a book of poems called, monkeypuzzle. She is an Assistant Professor in Critical + Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada, and is also a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami.
Thursday September 24, 2009, 1:00-2:00pm
Lillooet Room (301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
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