poetry
Finals season: a warning
November 26, 2021By: Maya Beninteso, SFU Student The cold, like hornets, incessantly stinging at the back of your throat, nibbling at, not only your toes, but your will to live, almost as if it knows, finals season’s prepared to attack stealthily on its tiptoes. It hopes its prey is weakened by seasonal flus, the winter blues, and our collective blown fuse just enough to erode the sleepless nights in your IKEA lamp’s lonely light — the light that is much brighter than you; it, I am certain, must not reread a single page a hundred times through. Your bed…
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Isabella Wang: poetry is like being at home
July 19, 2021By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Isabella Wang, a third-year SFU student, has made impressive strides in the literary community as the author of two poetry collections: a chapbook titled On Forgetting a Language, published in 2019, and Pebble Swing, her…
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David Ly discusses inspirations, metaphors, and more in “Mythical Man”
February 7, 2021By: Michelle Young, News Editor In April 2020, Vancouver-based writer and SFU alumnus David Ly published his debut poetry collection, Mythical Man. During an email interview with The Peak, Ly shared his creative process. Reminiscing on his experience at SFU,…
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SFU alumni Dr. Jordan Abel on reimagining academia and literature
January 23, 2021Written by: Emma Jean, Staff Writer Dr. Jordan Abel, a Nisga’a poet, writer, and professor, doesn’t often get the chance to talk about his dissertation process. As an SFU doctoral graduate himself, he was the first speaker of SFU’s Supervision…
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Looking forward to fall with SFU’s newest Writer-in-Residence, Juliane Okot Bitek
September 14, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor As the fall semester kicks off in remote fashion, so does Juliane Okot Bitek’s role as SFU’s 2020–21 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence. Okot Bitek is an award-winning and prolific writer, poet, and…
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Creative Writing minor to launch at SFU this fall
June 9, 2020Written by: Paige Riding, News Writer On the evening of May 25, around 50 attendees joined together over Zoom to celebrate the upcoming launch of SFU’s new creative writing minor. The program, available starting this fall, will eventually replace the…
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SFU Special Collections hosts Eve Joseph for a charming afternoon of poetry
November 9, 2019By: Lubaba Mahmud, Staff Writer My mother always says that the mark of a truly great person lies in their humility. When I attended a reading by award-winning writer Eve Joseph a couple weeks ago, my mother’s words echoed in…
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LiterASIAN offers an in-depth glimpse into the Asian-Canadian writing community
October 26, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Peak Associate Now in its seventh year, LiterASIAN is an annual Asian-Canadian writers’ festival. Organized by the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), this year’s festival occurred on September 27 and 28 in Vancouver’s Chinatown with the theme…
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Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer is inspired by love, identity, and the Internet
May 26, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor I often find poetry to be a difficult medium of literature to digest. I think, as for many of us, this largely comes from an understanding that poetry is not really meant to be understood…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 12–17
May 17, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor qaʔ yəxw - water honours us: womxn and waterways at the Bill Reid Gallery This summer, the featured exhibition at the Bill Reid gallery is curated by four members of the Indigenous women’s art collective…
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