recent & selected work
Photo by Imalka Nilmalgoda.
Performances
VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival (November 30, 2024). Ottawa, ON.
At SupaDupaFresh, curated by Mahogany L. Browne, Jive Poetic, Jon Sands, Rico Frederick & Adam Falkner (September 11, 2024). Brooklyn, NY, USA.
At the Victorious Voices Festival, a performance & a workshop (April 2024). Victoria, BC.
For One Night Only, an evening of poetry with Sabrina Benaim, Noah Arhm Choi, Sarah Kay & Jon Sands (September 22, 2023). Brooklyn, NY, USA.
“The Poetics of Climate Change”, a workshop, as part of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival’s Inside the Writer’s World: Writing Climate Change (May 6, 2023). Millennium Library, Winnipeg, MB.
At Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye Live in Vancouver, presented by Project VOICE (April 21, 2023). Canadian Memorial United Church, Vancouver, BC.
At The Live Mixtape, featuring Cadence Weapon, presented by Trinnipeg & Synonym Sound (April 15, 2023). ReMai Modern, Saskatoon, SK.
Publications
“After ‘listing (v), 2013’” in Room Magazine 47.4 (2024). In print and online.
“Ars Poetica”, written for the Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts (June 13, 2024).
“The Work”, for hannah_g’s PLANET LOVE, at Galerie Buhler Gallery (September 8 to November 19, 2023).
“On the Imminent Destruction of Portage Place Mall”, in Canadian Literature 248 (2022). Print. (This poem was also longlisted for the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize).
“Aubade (& a happy New Year)”, for CBC Manitoba (2022). Online.
“Translation of a Photo of Myself” for Jaimie Isaac’s Auntie Lens, in Born in Power at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2021).
“Spring, or Spiral in 3 Parts”, for Patterns Collective’s Sanctuaries at Gallery 1C03 (2021). Online.
“Ekphrasis for Lift Tumblr” and two others in Border Crossings 155 (2020). Print.
3 Poems after John K. Samson, in Prairie Fire Magazine 40:1 (2019). Print.
The Habitual Be, in Akashic Book’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne), edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani (2017). Print.