Dear Friends &: Leanne Dunic, Cristina Holman, Dallas Hunt

Western Front and The Capilano Review are pleased to invite you to the second event in our new monthly reading series, Dear Friends &. Please join us for an evening of poetry by Leanne Dunic, Cristina Holman, and Dallas Hunt.

The evening will be hosted by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Kiel Torres.

Cristina Holman lives and writes on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwxw̱ú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ. She was a participant in the 2017/18 Artspeak Studio for Emerging Writers and the 2022 Banff Centre Spring Writer’s Retreat. Her debut chapbook, published with Artspeak Gallery in 2018, is titled Stop Wincing/We’re Fine and her second chapbook, Repeater, was published in 2021 by Zed Press. Her work can be found in Bad Nudes and Poetry is Dead. She is writing a full-length collection called Glaze.

Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty Eight territory in northern Alberta. He has had creative work published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, and Arc Poetry. His first children’s book, Awâsis and the World-famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and was nominated for several awards. Hunt is an assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at the University of British Columbia.

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.