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Tree Reading Series

@treeseries

Running since 1980, Tree is one of Canada's longest-running literary events, and an essential part of Ottawa's vibrant literary and poetry community.

 Ottawa, Canada
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Joined August 2011
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Yesterday was a beautiful night of readings at @VERSeOttawa! Thank you to all who came out or watched, and to all our readers: Ciku Gitonga, @HadzicVera, Vivian Vavassis, @mrrazovsky, & @jobitek! Deeply powerful and vibrant performances!
Vivian Vavassis reading at the podium.

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Stuart Ross joining us virtually through Zoom.

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Juliane Okot Bitek reading at the podium.

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Ciku Gitonga and Vera Hadzic pictured together after the event.

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Matthew James Weigel (@SpongePoet) is a Dene and Métis poet and artist born and raised in Edmonton. Currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Alberta, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences. He is the designer for Moon Jelly House press and his...6/9
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Meet February's featured readers! Fareh Malik (@FarehMalikPoet) is a BIPOC artist from Hamilton, Ontario, as well as a seasoned spoken word poet and established author. Fareh was named the 2022 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award winner. He was also the winner of Hamilton Art’s 1/9
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Join us this Tuesday, February 28th for the next Tree series event, featuring @FarehMalikPoet and @SpongePoet! Sign up below to attend the workshop, to read at the open mic, and/or to hear our featured readers! forms.gle/2QaTkP6yV3vkrMuR8
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Elizabeth Mudenyo (@LizisaBeth)is a Scarborough-raised poet, community organizer, artist and arts manager. She was a fellow of the Poetry Foundation’s 2018 Poetry Incubator, and participant of the 2020 Hurston/Wright Poetry Weekend with Danez Smith...
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Christian Aldana (@xtian_as)'s (she/they) poetry is a safe space for wicked and sinister femmes who hate imperialism. They are a queer, multiracial Filipinx community organizer based in Chicago. Though she has a soft spot for the Midwest...
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Our next Tree event is on Tuesday, January 31st! Meet the first featured readers of 2023!
Graphic with author photos of Christian Aldana and Elizabeth Mudenyo (described later in thread), and text reading: January 31st Workshop at 19:00 EST Reading at 20:00 Open Mic

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Tree's first event of 2023 will be Tuesday, January 31st! Join us for a workshop from Brandon Wint, an open mic, and readings from Christian Aldana (@xtian_as) and Elizabeth Mudenyo (@LizisaBeth). Register here: forms.gle/mRSUcuanSHy2iXrB8
Graphic with photos of Christian Aldana and Elizabeth Mudenyo and text reading: January 31st Workshop at 19:00 EST Reading at 20:00 Open mic

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Elee Kraljii Gardiner (@eleekg) is an author, editor, and creative mentor whose award-winning books of poetry include Trauma Head, which investigates the experience of vertebral artery dissection and stroke through textual interventions, and serpentine loop, which considers (4/8)
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Meet November's featured readers! Dilruba Ahmed (@DilrubaAhmed) is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound. Her debut book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf), won the Bakeless Prize. (1/8)
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Join us Tuesday, November 29th for the next Tree Reading Series event, with featured readings from Dilruba Ahmed and Elee Kraljii Gardiner! Register here: forms.gle/D68jpouaAaNveFBi8
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Alessandra Naccarato (@AlessandraNacc) is the author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene (Essays) and Re-Origin of Species (Poems). Born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto), she is the recipient of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the CBC Poetry Prize. (3/6)
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Meet October’s featured readers! A 2022 Spring Seventh Wave resident, Farah Ghafoor's (@farah_ghafoor) poems are published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Prism International, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, Hobart and elsewhere. (1/6)
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