In the Middle of the Large

About the Artists

Ana Brulé is a recent graduate of Bachelors in Honours in English Literature at Concordia University. Their writing largely consists of short experiments, either in ergodic hypertext or in poems. Previously, their poems have been published in the collections Void Magazine and Scorned.

Louis Cabri’s most recent poetry book is Hungry Slingshots (New Star Books). Ongoing work includes an essay collection on the stamina of contemporary poetry. He teaches literature, theory, and creative writing at the University of Windsor.

Danielle LaFrance is the author of JUST LIKE I LIKE IT (Talonbooks 2019), Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks 2016), and species branding (Capilano University Editions 2010). Chapbooks include Tentacle Rasa (Asterion Press 2020) and Pink Slip (Standard Ink & Copy Press 2013). Her forthcoming poetry project #postdildo thinks and writes through the limitlessness and limitations of sexuality, communication, and desire. Focusing on the dildo as sexual object and social relation, she asks “How shall You fuck without causing harm?” Her poetry and critical writing have appeared in The Capilano Review, LESTE, Tripwire, Organism for Poetic Research, among other journals and magazines.

Kathryn Lapin is a student and writer living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She will be graduating from Concordia University’s Honours in English and Creative Writing program in 2023. She is hoping to publish her first chapbook by the end of the year, and she could not be more excited to gather with Fred and all of you. She hopes that you’ll say hi on Twitter @kathryn_444.

liza makarova is an interdisciplinary artist, experimental playwright, and poet currently based on earth. liza writes about love and grief, lesbians and communism, and how to empower people to feel hopeful about the future. they have read for the flywheel reading series by literary magazine Filling Station, presented introductions for Writers Read, and are in the process of developing a script with Playwright’s Workshop Montreal.

Fred Wah lives in Vancouver and the West Kootenays. He was Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2011-2013 and made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013. His award-winning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction include Sentenced to Light, his collaborations with visual artists, is a door, a series of poems about hybridity, and Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991 published in 2015. Recent writing involves the Columbia River and resulted in “beholden: a poem as long as the river,” a collaboration with Rita Wong. “High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem” is available online here and an adaptation of his bio-fiction Diamond Grill is being released as a radio play for Kootenay Co-Op Radio in 2021. Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations was published by Talonbooks in the fall of 2020.