Jim Johnstone and Cactus Press have just released my latest chapbook. It's called "Customs" and it has it's providence in the story of Louis Sam, a Sto:lo boy who was lynched in Sumas in 1884.
The following is an excerpt of the lecture I'll be giving next week at the 2009 Literatures of the West Coast Graduate Conference at the University of the Victoria. The working title is "Reservations: Identity and Poetic Form" and it mostly tells the story of how I came to think of poetic form as being both customs agent and traveller, local and global.
Some audio from a reading at the Railway Club in Vancouver, BC in Fall 2008. The reading was hosted by Memewar Magazine and Zach Wells made the recording.
This is the first graduate conference for the Literatures of the West Coast graduate program at the University of Victoria. I've been asked to be a plenary speaker. My talk will be called "Reservations: Form and Identity" and will focus on how I've used form to both globalize and localize my poems.
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