Name: Dear Friends &: Jordan Abel, Phanuel Antwi, Tiziana La Melia
Start: 2024-10-03T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-03T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Western Front

Dear Friends &: Jordan Abel, Phanuel Antwi, Tiziana La Melia

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre. We support a multidisciplinary program that provides opportunities to artists working across music, media art, visual art, performance, and literature to create and present work.

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Join us for an evening of poetry by Jordan Abel, Phanuel Antwi, and Tiziana La Melia.

Western Front and The Capilano Review are pleased to present the next event in our monthly reading series Dear Friends &amp;. Please join us for an evening of poetry by Phanuel Antwi, Tiziana La Melia, and writer-in-residence Jordan Abel.The evening will be hosted by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Kiel Torres.

<h3>About the Artists</h3>Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of the award-winning poetry collections The Place of Scraps (2013), Un/inhabited (2014), Injun (2017), and NISHGA (2022), and the novel Empty Spaces (2023). Abel completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University in 2019, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing.Phanuel Antwi is an artist, curator, and organizer concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy and struggle. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC. In 2022 he was named Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is the author of On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace (2024).Tiziana La Melia is a painter, poet, and collaborator based on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh territories (Vancouver, Canada). In her writing and art practice, La Melia gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, fantasy, iterative shapes, and symbols that move through layers of diasporic time. She is the author of lettuce lettuce please go bad (2024), The Eyelash and the Monochrome (2018), and Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect (2015/2018).

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<h3>Acknowledgements</h3>Produced in partnership with The Capilano Review with support from the BC Arts Council.If you enjoy this free programming, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to The Capilano Review to support the organization's year-round publishing and public programs. Become a Friend of TCR by visiting <a href="https://thecapilanoreview.com/donate/#:~:text=Donations%20by%20mail%20are%20welcome,payable%20to%20The%20Capilano%20Review." title="https://thecapilanoreview.com/donate/#:~:text=Donations%20by%20mail%20are%20welcome,payable%20to%20The%20Capilano%20Review." target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.thecapilanoreview.com/donate</a>

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