*POSTPONED* Poets House Presents: North of Invention with Rita Wong

This event has been POSTPONED, with new date to be announced

Poet, environmental activist, and social justice advocate Rita Wong reads selected work from her forthcoming collection Current, Climate (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, delayed due to Covid-19) and beholden (Talonbooks, 2018), co-written with former Canadian Poet Laureate, Fred Wah. She reads from the Coast Salish Watch House on unceded Coast Salish Territory (Burnaby, BC, Canada).

Rita Wong lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver. Dedicated to questions of water justice, decolonization, and ecology, she is the author of monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998), forage (Nightwood Editions, 2007), sybil unrest (Line Books, 2008, with Larissa Lai), undercurrent (Nightwood Editions, 2015), and perpetual (Nightwood Editions, 2015, with Cindy Mochizuki), as well as the co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016, with Dorothy Christian).

Co-Presented by the Consulate General of Canada in New York.

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings that are posted on IGTV, YouTube, and our Archive on Fridays at noon.