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

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Western Front | Vancouver, BC

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An evening of poetry by Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Wah.
About this Event

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.



About the Artists

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.



Accessibility

The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. While plans for a full building upgrade to facilitate access for wheelchair and scooter users are still underway, events in the Grand Luxe Hall are made available virtually via high-quality livestream here. Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.



Acknowledgements

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

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