Sisters In Feminism

Event Description

Ліга Поетів Канади запрошує на вечір поезіі авторів емігрантів та політичних біженців

В програмі дванадцять сучасних поетес канадської сцени, серед котрих двоє українців - Уляна Глинчак, яка читатиме свої твори в англійській мові, і також в перекладі Лідії Волянської, а також новоприбула авторки з України Мар'яна Муха, яка читатиме твори в оригіналі, після чого Уляна Глинчак читатиме іх переклад на англійську мову.

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THE READING / CПИСОК УЧАСНИКІВ

1. FARAH AYAAD is a Palestinian-Canadian poet and spiritual activist blending poetry, self-help, and spirituality. She is the author of Coming Home, You Are The Sun, Love On Earth, Mañana, Doves & Olives, and Almost Home. Influenced by Rumi, Khalil Gibran, and Osho, her work empowers readersto become their bravest self.

2. PADMAJA BATTANI, originally from India, lives in Connecticut/Ottawa. She received an MA inEnglish Literature. Her prose and poetry appeared in Sierra Poetry Festival, Trouvaille Review, NewPages, The Temz Review, Coffee People Magazine, Poetry Pause (League of Canadian Poets), CanLitMagazine and others. Her latest passion is hiking. She is currently working on a Poetry Collection.

3. kULIANA HLYNCHAK is a Toronto-based journalist, producer, and author. She writes and translates poetry and short stories in Ukrainian and English. Uliana works at the Ukrainian TV Network KONTAKT. She is on the Board of Directors at the Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation and volunteers for the Toronto Ukrainian Festival. Uliana came to Canada from Ukraine in 1991.

4. PAMELA MORDECAI is a Jamaican-Canadian poet who lives in Toronto and writes for adults and children. Her nine books for grown-ups include A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2022) and the Book of Joseph (Mawenzi House,2022), the third in her New Testament series in Patwa. See https://mordecai.citl.mun.ca/

5. a) MARYANA MUKHA: From the start of the full-scale invasion until March 2024, Maryana lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, before relocating to Vancouver. Her first poem, written on June 27, 2022, responded to a deadly Russian attack. She has since performed at events supporting Ukraine and is starting a new life in Canada, balancing poetry with new beginnings.

5. b) Uliana Hlynchak (reading as a translator for Maryana)

6. ANINDITA MUKHERJEE is a poet and translator. Her literary oeuvre includes How Silkworms BreakTheir Eggs: Selected Poems of Mridul Dasgupta, and a chapbook titled Nothing and Variations,besides publications in other literary magazines. She is a PhD student in English and Film Studies atthe University of Alberta.

7. GIANNA PATRIARCA: multiple award-winning author of 13 books: poetry, children’s literature,short fiction, essays. Her work is extensively anthologized, adapted for Canada Stage, CBC Radio,numerous documentaries, and on the course lists of universities in Italy, Canada and the USA.

8. FAUZIA RAFIQUE Fauzia Rafique is a novelist and arts activist who has published three novels:‘ Keerru ‘, ‘ Skeena ‘, and ‘ The Adventures of SahebaN: Biography of a Relentless Warrior ’. ‘Insects’,the English translation of Keerru is forthcoming from Hachette India. She is a co-founder and the coordinator of Surrey Muse Arts Society.

9. a) Baran Sajadi

BARAN SAJADI is a poet and activist from Afghanistan born in Mashhad, Iran. She experiencedchild labour and was expelled from Ferdowsi University due to the explicit content of her poetry.Baran has been living in Canada ever since. She has published three poetry collections: Stoning,Period, and Blood Bath.

9. b) Bänoo Zan (reading as a translator for Baran)

BÄNOO ZAN is a poet, translator, and poetry curator, with over 300 published pieces and three books.She is the founder of Shab-e She’r, Canada’s most diverse and brave poetry series. Bänoo is the co-editor of the international poetry anthology: Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution, Guernica Editions.

10. DR. NILOFAR SHIDMEHR is a poet, fiction writer, and poetic-inquiry scholar. She is the author of seven books of poetry in English and Persian, the chief editor and curator of two Iranian Editions of Bombay Review, and the book Rainbows on Rugged Terrains: Poetics of Queer Iranians in Exil.11. Jumoke VerissimoJUMOKE VERISSIMO is an acclaimed poet and novelist. Her work includes two award-winning poetry collections, i am memory and The Birth of Illusion, and the critically acclaimed novel, A SmallSilence, winner of the Aidoo Synder Book Prize. Her latest poetry collection is forthcoming from Coach House in Fall 2025.

12. ANNA YIN was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-17) and has authored six poetry collections and four books of translations. Anna won poetry awards in both Chinese and English. She teaches Poetry Alive and her 11th book will be published by Frontenac Press in 2025. Her website is annapoetry.com

Come join us on Zoom for “Sisters in Feminism: Poetry by Immigrant and Refugee Women,” the third annual National Poetry Month (NPM) event organized by the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets! We’ve pushed this year’s NPM theme of “family” beyond nuclear and state borders, choosing to recognize the global sisterhood that unites feminists in our struggle for liberation. Twelve such Sisters in Feminism, refugees or immigrants to Canada from around the world, will read for five minutes each. Most readers will perform in English. Performances in Ukrainian and Persian will be followed by complete English translations, read by the translators themselves.Buy tickets on eventbrite today! A limited number are available at each price point: $10, $15, and $20. Please pay what you can. The money goes to the poets!