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Poetry: Narratives of Family and Place
Sunday August 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:50pm MDT
Fairview
One element of a powerful story, be it a poem or a narrative, is its specificity, its grounding in time and place.

How is who we are built on where we are from? What tales travel through time to be integrated into the fabric of our writing? Whether it be tender or painful memories, bits of song, words in our cradle language, a cherished recipe ... how do these traditions and filaments of memory come through in our writing? Are we imprinted with the places our parents walked, places we may have visited in our lifetimes if not in their retelling? How can this legacy provide the backdrop against which our stories recapture lost time, faraway places, in essence come alive for ourselves and our audience?
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avatar for Josephine LoRe

Josephine LoRe

a pearl in this diamond worldJosephine LoRe has shared her poetry live on stage, in podcasts and radio programs, and in international zoom rooms. Her words have been put to music, danced, and integrated into visual art. She has two collections, Unity and the Calgary Herald Bestseller... Read More →
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Jennifer Slebioda

Emerging photo-poet, Jennifer Slebioda, published for the first time in POLAR BOREALIS #19 – Aug-Sep 2021 in the #19, September 2021 issue, resides in Calgary, Alberta, with her two teenagers and two cats. With decades as an amateur photographer, private poet, journal writer... Read More →
avatar for Anne Sorbie

Anne Sorbie

Anne Sorbie is a writer and Humanista! A liberal humanist who thinks all people have a right to be who they are. She has published four books, the latest of which is the (M)othering anthology (co-edited with Heidi Grogan). Her work has appeared on line at CBC Books, and in a range... Read More →
Sunday August 18, 2024 12:00pm - 12:50pm MDT
Fairview
  Author Event, Poetry

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