Lunch Poems presents Hari Alluri & Dale Tracy (at Harbour Centre)

June's Lunch Poems reading features poets Hari Alluri and Cecily Nicholson. Please join us for this in person event at SFU Harbour Centre.

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is a migrant poet of Filipinx and South Indian descent who lives, loves and writes on unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples and Kwantlen, Katzie and Kwikwetlem lands of Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking peoples. He is author of The Flayed City (Kaya) and chapbooks The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel) and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page). Recipient of the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry, siya has received grants, fellowships, and residencies from the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Capilano Review, Deer Lake, the National Film Board of Canada, and others. Co-founding editor of Locked Horn Press and co-editor of We Were Not Alone (CBAW), his work appears widely through these venues and elsewhere: Apogee, Dream Marrow (Burnaby Art Gallery), Marías at Sampaguitas, Poetry, Poetry in Canada, PRISM International, and—via Split This Rock—Best of the Net 2022. @harialluri | https://linktr.ee/harialluri

Dale Tracy is the author of Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022), her first full-length poetry collection. She also wrote the chapbooks Lines That Open (Surrey Art Gallery, 2023), The Mystery of Ornament (above/ground press, 2020), and Celebration Machine (Proper Tales Press, 2018), and the academic monograph With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017). She is a faculty member in the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.