Smithers Public Library

Join award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw for a poetry reading and workshop. In her latest book of poetry, Lot, Sarah considers the ways in which words and languages form and embolden coloniality and create unequal imaginings of—and power in—place.

This workshop is free and open to all, both in person and via Zoom. If you prefer to attend remotely, email Melissa at msawatsky@smitherslibrary.ca for the link.

ABOUT SARAH DE LEEUW

Author or editor of more than ten books, Sarah de Leeuw is a poet, essayist and geographer who works in a faculty of medicine at UNBC on issues of health humanities and the determinants of marginalized peoples’ health. Sarah grew up and has spent most of her life in Northern British Columbia, including Haida Gwaii and Terrace. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, and is a Canada Research Chair in Humanities and Health Inequities. de Leeuw’s writing has been honoured with a Western Magazine Gold Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, two CBC Literary Awards in creative non-fiction, and a short-listing for a Governor General’s award in non-fiction.

This event is generously sponsored by the Bulkley Valley Community Arts Council.