Speaking in Tongues: hybrid utterance launch

Speaking in Tongues: hybrid utterance chapbook launch

Witness two Asian diasporic poets excavate a glossolalia of innovative poetics and diasporic selfhoods. Join Winston Lê and company to celebrate the launch of his translingual poetry chapbook, hybrid utterance. He is accompanied by featured poet, Jane Shi (echolalia, echolalia Brick Books, 2024). Hosted by Claire Matthews.

Winston Lê is a Vietnamese-Chinese poet, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker who resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Kwantlen, Matsqui, Katzie, and Semiahmoo. His writing has been featured in ROOted Rhythms, Composed: anthology of poetry 2024, Poetry Pause, periodicities, Sparkling Tongue Press, Ekphrasis Magazine, pagefiftyone, and filling Station. His debut chapbook, translanguaging, was shortlisted for the 2018 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. translanguaging became the source text of Elaina Nguyen’s scholarly thesis on diasporic futurities entitled, On Vietnamese Canadian Futurities: generational and temporal invocations of refugeeness. Lê is the incoming poet-in-residence at Greywood Arts, an artist residency located in Cork, Ireland.

Jane Shi is a poet, writer, and organizer living on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. She is the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022) and the winner of The Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) is her debut poetry collection. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated. 

Claire Matthews is a bi, neurodivergent writer and editor. She lives on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Arc Poetry, Coast Mountain Culture, and EVENT, among others. In her spare time, she makes jam and revises her novel. 

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