Poetry New West Dulai & LeBox

Hosted by: Candice James Annette LeBox is an award-winning poet, novelist and children’s writer. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals such as Event, Poetry Canada, Prairie Fire, Matrix and the Southern Review. Two of her children’s books have won the BC Book Prize. She holds a certificate from The Writer’s Studio at SFU and an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. She divides her time between her home in Maple Ridge and her remote cabin in the Cariboo grasslands. Phinder Dulai’s critically acclaimed poetry collection dream / arteries (Talonbooks) was published in 2014. He is the author of two previous books of poetry: Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995) and Basmati Brown (Nightwood Editions, 2000). In 2016, Dulai was awarded the Word Masala Award by the Word Masala Non-Profit Foundation in London, England; and dream / arteries has formally been included as a recommended text for BC High School curriculum. Dulai lives in Surrey, BC, Canada and comes from a Punjabi background. Dulai has been touring dream / arteries since 2014, and has toured in both Canada and the USA, giving readings at universities, festivals and reading series. He currently works as a consulting editor for Talon Books and Curator of the Floor 9 Arts Salon for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in Vancouver, BC. Dulai was a co-convener on Sound Thinking Symposium 2015 entitled Voicing the City In/verse: Reading Surrey and the Super- Suburb; and has collaborated on a sound installation called The Grove – A Spatial Narrative with artists Carmen Papalia and Andrew Lee for the Surrey Art Gallery. His most recent work has been published in TripWire Journal, Asian American Writers Workshop Journal The Margins, Canada and Beyond, Dusie and Canadian Literature and Cue Books Anthology. Dulai is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary contemporary arts group The South of Fraser Inter Arts Collective (SOFIA/c). He will travel to England in 2017 to receive the award.