WESTERN FRONT – Dear Friends &: Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Fred Wah

A vermillion monotype print with gestural white and red loopy markings.

Western Front and The Capilano Review are pleased to present the next event in our monthly reading series Dear Friends &. Join us for an evening of poetry by Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Wah. The evening will be hosted by Deanna Fong.

About the Artists

Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent in Toronto. He works at CookeMcDermid and serves on the board of directors for the Toronto International Festival of Authors. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, received the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose.

Dorothy Trujillo Lusk sits in a cozy, book-filled room. The wall behind her is lined with shelves that are packed with a variety of books, papers, and objects. She has short blonde hair and wears glasses and a pink zip-up vest over a grey shirt with thin black stripes.

Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is a writer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ peoples (Vancouver, Canada). She is associated with the collectives Vultures, Red Queen, the Kootenay School of Writing, and About a Bicycle. Her books include Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000), Volume Delays (Sprang Texts, 1995), Redactive (Talonbooks, 1990 / pulped, 1995), and Oral Tragedy (Tsunami Editions, 1988).

Smiling, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk stands in front of a tree and holds a ladybug-spotted pinwheel in her left hand. She wears an olive jacket open over a grey dress.

Fred Wah is a poet based in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake, Canada. His most recent projects include Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 (Talonbooks, 2020), beholden: a poem as long as the river (Talonbooks, 2018) made in collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, and the online project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem.

Accessibility

The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. While plans for a full building upgrade to facilitate access for wheelchair and scooter users are still underway, events in the Grand Luxe Hall are made available virtually via high-quality livestream (see link above). Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.

Acknowledgements

Produced in partnership with The Capilano Review with support from the BC Arts Council.

Jonathan Alfaro, Satsuma Orange, from the series Daylight Lover (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.

Jonathan Alfaro, Satsuma Orange, from the series Daylight Lover (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.
Portrait of Dorothy Lusk. Photo by Oli Shakur.

Portrait of Dorothy Lusk. Photo by Oli Shakur.
Portrait of Dorothy Trujillo Lusk. Courtesy of the artist.

Portrait of Dorothy Trujillo Lusk. Courtesy of the artist.
Portrait of Fred Wah. Photo by Ewan Nicholson.

Portrait of Fred Wah. Photo by Ewan Nicholson.

Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.