Tabako on the Windowsill & In Your Nature: A Brick Books Poetry Launch

You’re invited to a double launch of In Your Nature and Tabako on the Windowsill, new poetry books by Estlin McPhee and Hari Alluri. Celebrate with the authors and featured guests Raoul Fernandes and Marc Perez.

Presented by Enabling Arts and Brick Books.

Masks are required for this event, and there will be a limited number of masks available at the door.

About In Your Nature:
Poems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.

About Tabako on the Windowsill:
What losses and intimacies bring you to this threshold? Tabako on the Windowsill – which Selina Boan calls “poetry at its most exquisite… precise, moving, and full of wonder” – contends tenderly with such questions, initiating through them the work of transformation. Guided by a burning attention – to braids of displacement, loss, and joy, to multiple beginnings – Alluri creates moments where we can expand through the personhood of perception into wider, overlapping worlds of perspective and possibility.

Doors 6:30 | Readings start promptly at 7.
Book sales and a signing to follow.

Hari Alluri:
Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is an award-winning migrant poet, performer, editor, and facilitator who connects to the world, gratefully, on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and unceded land of the T’uubaa-asatx Nation. Author ofHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is an award-winning migrant poet, performer, editor, and facilitator who connects to the world, gratefully, on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, and unceded land of the T’uubaa-asatx Nation. Author of (Kaya Press) and chapbook (Next Page Press), his new collection is (Brick Books).

With work available widely in anthologies, journals and online—including,, (SMALL CAPS / TCR),, and anthology (Haymarket Books)—his recent collaborations include Burnaby Art Gallery, The Capilano Review’s Emerging Writers’ Mentorship Program, Centre A, Community Building Art Works, The Digital Sala, Filipino Canadian Book Festival, Indian Summer Festival, Liars of Orpheus, Vancouver Poetry House, and more. @harialluri |

Raoul Fernandes:
Raoul Fernandes lives with his wife and two sons on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations otherwise known as Vancouver, BC. His first collection of poems, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-Litzer Award for Poetry in 2016. He is the Poetry Editor for EVENT Magazine and has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He teaches poetry at SFU and works in public libraries.

Estlin McPhee:
Estlin McPhee is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Estlin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is the author of the poetry chapbook Shapeshifters (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018). Their writing has appeared in journals across North America; for many years, they co-organized REVERB, a queer reading series in Vancouver. In Your Nature is Estlin’s debut poetry collection.

Marc Perez:
Marc Perez is the author of Dayo (Brick Books, 2024) and the chapbook Domus (Anstruther Press, 2025). Born and raised in Manila, he lives with his family in Sunset.

Acessibility Info:
-Main Enabling Arts entrance doorway: 35" in width, 81" in height. This door is not wheelchair accessible, however, the main entrance to our building is wheelchair accessible and we have a side door that a person could enter through in a wheelchair.

-The side door into Enabling Arts is a double-door with a width of 70" when both sides are open.

-We have one washroom which participants are welcome to use. The door size for the bathroom is 31" in width and 80" in height. The hallway to the bathroom is 36" at its narrowest point.

-There is also a public washroom in the building which is wheelchair accessible, and can be accessed through the side door of Enabling Arts.

Host or Publisher Enabling Arts