Reading by Erín Moure
- Alessandra Capperdoni
- Erín Moure
Western Front and The Capilano Review are pleased to present an evening with writer-in-residence Erín Moure.
The event will begin with a conversation with scholar Alessandra Capperdoni, and will be followed by a reading by Erín Moure from her latest book of poems Theophylline: A Poetic Migration (Anansi, 2023), a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. In it, Moure crosses a border as translator, to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké. Moure asks: What is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of … something else?
Registration includes the option for a one-year subscription to The Capilano Review at a discounted rate.
About the Artists
Erín Moure is a poet, essayist, and translator of poetry based in Montréal, Canada who works across Galician, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. A recipient of two Governor General’s Literary Awards—poetry and translation—as well as the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize, she holds two honorary doctorates and has been International Translator in Residence at Queen’s College (Oxford) and Woodberry Creative Fellow (Harvard).
Alessandra Capperdoni teaches in the Department of Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University. Her interests lie at the intersection of poetics, avant-garde writing, psychoanalysis, and writing informed by the practice of translation, especially in the areas of feminism and transculturalism. Her current work focuses on post-1960s Canadian poetics in the context of the social imaginaries shaped by the convergence of nationalism and globalization, as well as women’s avant-garde writing and feminist phenomenology in Canada.
Accessibility
The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. ASL interpretation is available upon request. Please contact us at info@westernfront.ca or +1 (604) 876 9343 to arrange. Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here.
Acknowledgements
Presented in partnership with The Capilano Review as part of their annual Writers-in-Residence program.
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.