Jillian Christmas

Poets+ is the future of Vancouver’s poetry scene

By: Alex Masse, Peak Associate Released on January 14, Poets+ is the creative brainchild of the Arts Council of New Westminster, Fifth Chord Studios, and Tawahum Bige, the project’s curator. It’s a one hour showcase of emerging poets of colour that takes on “themes of identity, oppression, and reconciliation.” True to form, the event held a land acknowledgement in its video description, honouring the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the QayQayt (qiqéyt) Nation, as well as all Coast Salish Nations.  “I wanted to highlight BIPOC artists in the scene that not only are brilliant poets, but do…

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