Online Book Launch: Hsin

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

DATE: Wednesday, June 22 at 6:30-8:00 PM (Atlantic Time)

PRE-REGISTER HERE AND THE ZOOM LINK WILL BE SENT TO YOU AFTER REGISTRATION: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdO-gpj0qHdPz6bQt34KRPColX9efuKRn

With special guests Jan Martin, Brian Braganza, and shalan joudry.

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. You can purchase Nanci’s book here: https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/hsin-by-nanci-lee/

BRIAN BRAGANZA is a writer and singer-songwriter and lives in a straw-bale house he built on an old farm property in the Mi’kmaq district of Kespukwitk, in south-western, Nova Scotia, Canada. Brian has written a manuscript of poetry, Ancestral Heirlooms, which explores liminality and the spaces in-between. He also writes creative non-fiction essays and articles, and has been published in Anchor, Salt Scapes Magazine, and most recently in Existare Literary Journal, among others. He plays music and hosts an Intergenerational Open Mic in Bridgewater. Brian’s follies include restoring a 150-year old barn, growing an arboretum, working on a variety of stone-wall and stone circle projects, and canoeing in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area.

shalan joudry is a narrative artist, ecologist, and mother, as well as a poet, playwright, podcaster, oral storyteller, actor, and cultural interpreter. She lives with her family in their community of L’sɨtkuk (Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia). Her first book of poetry, Generations Re-merging, was published in 2014. Purchase shalan’s book here: http://www.gaspereau.com/bookInfo.php?AID=0&AISBN=9781554472130

JAN MARTIN is a Two-Spirit Mikmaw poet and rapper located in Siknikt, Mikmaki. They represent Goodchance Underdog All-Night Bakery & Poetry Cafe and the Jar of __ rap crew. Their work explores themes of Absurdity, Indigenous existence in a systemically racist world and fictional characters as allegory.

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