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Victoria University
What's Happening / Crosscurrents Part 3

Crosscurrents Part 3: Lunch Readings

Apr. 25, 2022 12:00p.m.

We're pleased to invite you to a special lunchtime event of readings and conversation with acclaimed writer and Shaftesbury Creative Writer-in-Residence Canisia Lubrin and the students of her Special Topics in Creative Citizenship course, "Crosscurrents Part 3: Lunch Readings", on Monday, April 25, 12:00pm EDT. 

In these sessions, we engage intersecting knowledges and literary practices that exist within and beyond the texts we study and beyond the university classroom. We will chance ourselves toward the curiosities that make us more fully aware of each other, and in a loop of creative citizenship, we will wonder together at the work that literature affects, prolongs and makes possible.

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About the speaker

Canisia Lubrin is a writer, editor, critic and teacher. Her books include the awards-nominated debut Voodoo Hypothesis (Wolsak & Wynn, ‘17), Code Noir (Knopf, ’23). Her sophomore poetry collection, The Dyzgraphxst (M&S, ‘20), was listed for nine book prizes, including winner of the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Griffin Poetry Prize, Derek Walcott Prize, and finalist for the Governor General’s Award and Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Lubrin is the inaugural Shaftesbury Writer in Residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart, Lubrin studied at York University and the University of Guelph, where she is the incoming MFA in Creative Writing Coordinator and an Assistant Professor in the School of English & Theatre Studies. In 2021 Lubrin was awarded a Windham-Campbell prize in Poetry from Yale University.