recent & selected work
Photo by Anthony Mark Photography
Recent & Upcoming Appearances
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.
“Writing Window”, a workshop, as part of CV2 Magazine’s 2023 BIPOC Writing Intensive (July 15 and 22, 2023). Winnipeg, MB.
For the Riding Mountain Artists’ Residency, hosted by the Manitoba Arts Council and Parks Canada (June 5 to 18, 2023). Riding Mountain National Park, MB.
“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 in collaboration with Trinnipeg & Synonym Sound (April 15, 2023). ReMai Modern, Saskatoon, SK.
Selected Writing
“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. 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 the Akashic Book’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne). Print.
Recent Press
“Love in the time of climate crisis”, interview by Jessie Krahn for The Manitoban
“Weighing her words”, interview by AV Kitching for The Winnipeg Free Press