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EMWF Showcase: Hot Nights. Cool Poets.
August 28, 2020, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
The poets reading as part of this online event presented by the Eden Mills Writers Festival in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets are: Cicely Belle Blain, Burning Sugar, Sadiqa de Meijer, The Outer Wards, Mathew Henderson, Roguelike, Julie Joosten, Nought, Canisia Lubrin, The Dyzgraphxst, Randy Lundy, Field Notes for the Self, A.F. Moritz, As Far As You Know, Tyler Pennock, Bones, Rasiqra Revulva, Cephalopography 2.0, Kevin Spenst, Hearts Amok, John Steffler, And Yet, Lily Wang, Saturn Peach.
Heartbreak, hope, memory, body, trauma, motherhood, mayhem, love, self, queerness, oppression, resilience, addiction and…cephalopods. Grab your favourite beverage, pull up a chair and listen to a selection of the most dynamic Canadian voices in poetry to be published this year. These poems will break your heart, lift you up, turn you sideways and challenge you to think outside your own experience. Enjoy the ride.