Halifax Book Launch: Hsin

Please join us in celebrating the launch of Hsin by Nanci Lee!

DATE: Thursday, June 23 at 6:30-8:30 PM (Atlantic Time)

LOCATION: The Derby
2037 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS B3K 3B1

With special guests Annick MacAskill, Sam Sternberg, Nolan Natasha, and Ben Gallagher.

ABOUT HSIN: https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/hsin-by-nanci-lee/

NANCI LEE is a Syrian-Chinese poet and educator based in Mi’kmaki (Nova Scotia). When not writing or playing outdoors, Nanci works for Tatamagouche Centre, a justice-oriented retreat and learning centre focused on learning, gathering, transforming divisiveness through encounter. Nanci’s work has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, Matrix Magazine, The Antigonish Review, The Literary Review of Canada, The Fiddlehead, Rattle Magazine, and This Magazine. Hsin is her first book.

ANNICK MACASKILL is the author of No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the JM Abraham Award, and Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020). Her third full-length collection, Shadow Blight, will be published by Gaspereau Press this spring. She lives and writes in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.

SAM STERNBERG was born under a waxing gibbous moon. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Malahat Review, Room, Prairie Fire, The Mackinac, and Plenitude (“Labour,” from October 2020), as well as in the anthology The City Series #5 – Halifax (Frog Hollow Press). Her first chapbook, Kinship and Light: the Wyeth Poems, was published by Greenboathouse Press in 2018. She lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia).

NOLAN NATASHA is a queer and trans writer. He has been a finalist for the CBC poetry prize, the Ralph Gustafson Poetry prize, the Geist postcard contest, and the Thomas Morton fiction prize. Nolan’s debut poetry collection, I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? was released in the fall of 2019 with Invisible publishing.

BEN GALLAGHER is a poet and essayist currently living between Toronto, ON, and Lunenburg, NS. He is in the middle of a PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, researching non-linear pedagogy and poetic practices in community poetry workshops. He recently became a father and spends large portions of his day happily stacking blocks and picking up cereal from under the high chair. Recent work can be found in untethered, Sewer Lid, The Puritan, (parenthetical), and Arc, among other places.

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