Rita Wong Today at 1:00

Today at 1:00 it's Rita Wong in room 5-168. The following is stolen from Prof. Budde's website:

Rita's first book, monkeypuzzle, was published by Press Gang in 1998 and received the Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop Emerging Writer Award. She lives in Miami and Vancouver and teaches Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr Institute. She has published prose works and poems in Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury 2006). Companions and Horizons: an Anthology of SFU Poetry (West Coast Line 2005), Ribsauce: a CD/Anthology of Words by Women (Véhicule 2001), The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War (Three Squares 2003), and Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry (Arsenal Pulp 1999). Her newest book is Forage from Nightwood Editions has been shortlisted for the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize along with Prince George's own Gillian Wigmore.

Poet Fred Wah Readings

Prominent Canadian poet Fred Wah is visiting town tomorrow (Tuesday March 11), giving presentations at UNBC and CNC. Wah, whose ancestry includes Chinese, Irish, Swedish, and Scottish, has dealt extensively with the themes of language and identity in a Canadian context.

He will be at UNBC in room 5-155 at 1:00 pm and CNC in room 1-309 at 7:00 pm.

Click here to read Wah's poem Father/Mother Halibun #4.

UNBC/Emily Carr at the Two Rivers Art Gallery

Photo - UNBC English professor Robert Budde reads a selection from his latest book of poetry, Finding Fort George, Saturday March 1 at the Two Rivers Art Gallery.

A UNBC/Emily Carr poetry and art event was held at the Two Rivers Art Gallery Saturday March 1, in hopes of promoting the new Fine Arts Program.
The event had UNBC/Emily Carr professor Sheila Hall give a presentation on various artistic projects she's been a part of across the globe, in addition to Budde's poetry reading and appetizers.
"The North has wanted this for so so long… Prince George and Northerners can stay in their own latitude and explore their artistic statements," UNBC English masters student and co-organizer of the event Jeremy Stewart said during the event's introduction.
For more information, read the next issue of Over the Edge Newspaper, out on campus March 13.