Knife Fork Book at Artscape Youngplace
Readings by Jim Johnston, Canisia Lubrin, Lee Maracle, Sachiko Murakami, Janet Rogers, Ingrid Ruthig and Moez Surani.
Resisting Canada, edited by Nyla Matuk, addresses among other things, Indigenous agency, cultural belonging, environmental anxieties, and racial privilege.
These poems ask us to judge and resist a statecraft that refuses to acknowledge past and present wrongs. The anthology includes poems by Jordan Abel, James Arthur, Marie Annharte Baker, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Wayde Compton, Beth Cuthand, Rosanna Deerchild, Marilyn Dumont, Marvin Francis, Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer, Jim Johnstone, El Jones, Christine Leclerc, Canisia Lubrin, Lee Maracle, Sachiko Murakami, Arleen Paré, Michael Prior, Janet Rogers, Armand Garnet Ruffo, Ingrid Ruthig, Gregory A. Scofield, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Karen Solie, Moez Surani, Derek Webster, and Rita Wong. Free admission.