Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice Royal City Literary Arts Society Feature Poets Daphne Marlatt & Roy Miki SUNDAY February 19, 2017 Time: 11:30am to 1:30pm Open Mic Sign Up More details at our website www.poeticjusticenewest.org Daphne Marlatt is a critically acclaimed poet (Steveston, Liquidities) and novelist (Ana Historic, Taken). Her most recent title, Reading Sveva features a series of poems in response to the life and work of the Italian-Canadian painter, Sveva Caetani. Roy Miki grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in the late 1960s. He is the author of many books, including Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), as well as five books of poems. His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. More recent publications are Mannequin Rising (New Star 2011), a series of poems and photo collages that probe the internal effects of commodity culture; In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (NeWest 2011), an essay collection; and Dolphin SOS (Tradewind Books 2014), a children’s book co-written with his wife Slavia, and illustrated by Julie Flett. Dolphin SOS received a 2014 BC Book Prize for best illustrated children’s book. We acknowledge the support of the - Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. - Writers' Union of Canada