Join Massy Arts, Misha Solomon, Devon Rae, Mikka Jacobsen and Shelley Stoehr June 18th from 6-8pm for the Launch of PRISM International Issue 62.2!
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver. We are located in the former MING WO building.
Registration is free or by donation and required for entry.
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.
Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
About Misha Solomon: Misha Solomon is a homosexual poet in and of Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is the author of two chapbooks, FLORALS (above/ground press, 2020) and Full Sentences (Turret House Press, 2022), and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, The Antigonish Review, Augur, The Fiddlehead, Frozen Sea, Grain, The Malahat Review, PRISM international, Riddle Fence, and & Change.Instagram: @mishasolomon
About Devon Rae: Devon Rae is a queer writer from Montreal, QC who now lives in Vancouver, BC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arc Poetry Magazine, Canthius, SAD Magazine, Room, PRISM International, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook, Thirteen Conversations with My Body, is forthcoming in 2024 with Anstruther Press.
About Mikka Jacobsen: Mikka Jacobsen is the author of the essay collection Modern Fables, which won the 2023 Alberta Book Publishing Award for Non-Fiction, and the story collection Good Victory, forthcoming with Freehand Books. Her work has appeared in Joyland, The Fiddlehead, and The Missouri Review, among others. She lives in Calgary, Alberta, on Treaty 7 territory. Instagram: mikkajacobsen; FB: mikka.jacobsen
About Shelley Stoehr: Shelley Stoehr teaches writing at Southern Connecticut State University and is the winner of a 2023 de Groot Foundation Writer of Note grant. Shelley has received awards from The North American Review, New Millenium Sunshots, Writer's Digest, WOW: Women on Writing, and the ALA. Her poetry chapbook, Glitterotica, was published in 2023 by Dancing Girl Press. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorShelleyStoehr
