平特五不中

When:聽Thursday, January 23, 7pm-9pm

Where:聽Anticaf茅 Vieux-Port, 406 Notre-Dame St. East, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1C8

How can wellness be imagined for and by survivors of ongoing, intersectional trauma? Addressing trauma as experienced by individual, chronically ill bodies and on an ecological scale, these poems turn to secular ritual and magic as ethical structures that may permit healing to coexist and engage politically with complex harms.

Rebecca Salazar (she/they) is the author of聽the knife that justifies the wound聽(Rahila鈥檚 Ghost) 补苍诲听Guzzle聽(Anstruther Press), a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead and Plenitude magazines, and a PhD candidate living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi鈥檏maq peoples.

You think that because you understand 鈥渙ne鈥� that you must therefore understand 鈥渢wo鈥� because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 鈥渁nd.鈥濃�擲ufi parable

For far too long we have othered nature; the distinction between humans and the land has only bolstered illusions of authority and hierarchy. If, as Phyllis Webb suggested, poetry cannot change the world, it can change individual consciousness鈥攕tarting with the poet鈥檚鈥攊n efforts to understand the 鈥渁nd鈥� between 鈥渙ne鈥� and 鈥渙ne.鈥� This reading explores ecological grief, the responsibility of connection, and gratitude.

christian favreau is a poet and activist living in Montr茅al (Tiohti谩:ke). His work has appeared in The 平特五不中 Daily Literary Supplement and Vallum. His forthcoming book of poetry with JackPine Press will be available in late 2020.

In 鈥淭alking to Grief,鈥� poet Denise Levertov depicts grief as a stray dog desiring the companionship of the speaker鈥攕uggesting that taking ownership of grief transforms both the emotion and those experiencing it. In dialogue with Levertov, Jaeggle鈥檚聽Night of the Crash, a sequence of poems on the death of the narrator鈥檚 son, proposes that wellness is only antithetical to grief when grief is denied its history.

M.W. Jaeggle鈥檚 poetry has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Dalhousie Review, Vallum, The Veg, and elsewhere. He is author of two chapbooks,聽Janus on the Pacific聽补苍诲听The Night of the Crash. While pursuing an MA at 平特五不中, Mike served as Poetry Editor at Scrivener Creative Review and was awarded the Mona Adilman Prize in poetry. Currently Poetry Editor at Montreal Writes, he lives in Vancouver.