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Reading and Conversation with Vancouver's Poet Laureate Emerita Rachel Rose
Thu, 07 Feb
|Home of Andrea Wetzler Tremosa
Rachel is the author of four poetry books as well as numerous fiction and non-fiction works. She will present her creative process in writing and will also read from one of her books. Come join us for an evening of poetry and pot luck.
Time & Location
07 Feb 2019, 19:30
Home of Andrea Wetzler Tremosa, 39 Boulevard de Strasbourg, 31000 Toulouse, France
Guests
About the event
Pot Luck Dinner at the Home of Member Andrea Wetzler Tremosa. Please bring wine or something to share for the Pot Luck dinner.
More about the speaker:
Rachel Rose was the Poet Laureate Emerita of Vancouver from 2014 to 2017. She is the author of four poetry books, three short stories, several anthologies, as well as a memoir and an Opera. She has won poetry, fiction, and non-fiction awards, including the 1997 Bronwen Wallace Award for Fiction from The Writers’ Trust of Canada, a 2014 and 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a 2016 nomination for a Governor General’s Award. Recent work has appeared in publications such as The Globe & Mail, The American Poetry Review, Monte Cristo Magazine, The Vancouver Sun and The Press Democrat.
Formerly a fellow at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, she is on a writing sabbatical, and currently living in Toulouse with her wife and two of her three children.