Chances are you\u2019ve read Trish\u2019s poetry that \u201cmakes a perfect mess of so much human experience that’s been too tidily categorized\u201d (Michael V. Smith). Drawing on personal history and theory, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives, her lyric and language poetry has been your summer reading, we hope.
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\nMetonymy\u2019s edition of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1<\/i> (originally published in the US by Roof Books in 2014) includes a new cover design by artists Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li as well as some new poems. This, combined with Trish\u2019s always thoughtful stage presence, means you won\u2019t want to miss this event.
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\nTrish will be joined by local writers natalie hanna and Faizal Deen.
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\nFree admission. All are welcome.
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\nAbout the readers:
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\nBorn in Halifax, Trish Salah is the author of Wanting in Arabic<\/i> (TSAR 2002, 2013) and Lyric Sexology Vol. 1<\/i> (Roof 2014, Metonymy 2017) and co-editor of special issues of Canadian Review of American Studies<\/i> 35.2 (2005) and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.4<\/i> (2014). The 2013 edition of Wanting in Arabic<\/i> won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. At the University of Winnipeg she organized the conferences Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres. Currently an assistant professor of Gender Studies at Queen\u2019s University, she is a member of the editorial boards of TSQ<\/i>, Eoagh<\/i>et Topia<\/i>.
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\nFaizal Deen is a Guyanese poet & scholar. Adopted into Canada by an abusive White parent, his work focuses primarily on themes of representational violence & the politics of beauty. He lives in Ottawa with Sabrina, a cocker spaniel. He is the author of The Greatest Films<\/i>et A Land without Chocolate<\/i>.
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\nNatalie Hanna is a queer Ottawa lawyer of Middle Eastern heritage, whose writing focusses on feminist, political, and personal themes. She runs battleaxe (small) press, is the Administrative Director of the Sawdust Reading Series, and serves as newsletter editor and board member at Arc Poetry Magazine<\/i>. Her work has appeared with above\/ground press, in\/words, and phafours press, among others.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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