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.