July 10th , 2024 Pandora's Collective Presents TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON Featured Poets:
Onjana Yawnghwe
Alex Leslie
Ned Baeck
and open mic
Hosted by: Daniela Elza, & Natasha Boskic Time: 6:00 - 7:50 pm Location: Britannia Library, 1661 Napier St, Vancouver
Onjana Yawnghwe is a Shan-Canadian writer and illustrator who lives in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Kwikwetlem First Nation. She is the author of two poetry books, Fragments, Desire (Oolichan Books, 2017), and The Small Way (Dagger Editions 2018), both of which were nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She works as a registered nurse. Her current projects include a graphic memoir about her family and Myanmar, and a book of cloud divination.
Alex Leslie has published two collections of short stories -- People Who Disappear, shortlisted for a Lambda Prize for debut LGBTQ fiction and We All Need to Eat, shortlisted for the BC Book Prize -- as well as two collections of prose poetry, The things I heard about you, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch prize for experimental poetry and Vancouver for Beginners, shortlisted for the City of Vancouver book prize and winner of the Western Canada Jewish book prize for poetry.
Cage of Light is Ned Baeck's second full-length collection of poems with Guernica Editions. (His first collection, Wait, was released in 2018.) He is also the author of a chapbook with LyricalMyrical press. Baeck studied Liberal Arts at Concordia University and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has lived for most of the last twenty years in Vancouver.