Dear Friends &: Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Fred Wah

Western Front and The Capilano Review are pleased to present the next event in our monthly reading series Dear Friends &. Join us for an evening of poetry by Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Wah. The evening will be hosted by Deanna Fong.

Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent in Toronto. He works at CookeMcDermid and serves on the board of directors for the Toronto International Festival of Authors. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, received the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose.

Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is a writer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ peoples (Vancouver, Canada). ​She is associated with the collectives Vultures, Red Queen, the Kootenay School of Writing, and About a Bicycle. Her books include ​Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000), Volume Delays (Sprang Texts, 1995), Redactive (Talonbooks, 1990 / pulped,1995), and Oral Tragedy (Tsunami Editions, 1988).

Fred Wah is a poet based in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake, Canada. Working across poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, his texts explore themes of hybridity, memory, and lineage, and often involves collaboration with visual artists. His most recent projects include Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 (Talonbooks, 2020), beholden: a poem as long as the river (Talonbooks, 2018) made in collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, and the online project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem.

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Produced in partnership with The Capilano Review with support from the BC Arts Council.

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