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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Join us for the next event in our Literartistry series: a reading by </span><b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ann
Shin -- Thursday 7 November, 4:30pm, STJ 3027</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Our thanks to Brick Books for their support! </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The opening act will be Lindsay Kroes, who has recently published<i> Gather by the Avon</i>, an anthology of local history
short stories. </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">About the feature author:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ann Shin is a writer, filmmaker and new media producer based in Toronto. She has two books of poetry published, the
latest book being </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Family China</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
published by Brick Books in May 2013. Her writing has also been published in anthologies and magazines in Canada and the US, including </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Literary
Review of Canada</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On
a Bed of Rice</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Anchor Books, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Geography
of Encounters</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Rowman and Little Press, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alphabet
City: FOOD</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, MIT Press. </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">About </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Family China</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"This short, dazzling collection of poems contains a universe—nothing short of North American life in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first century. Somehow it is all here, joyously offered up, birth, death, and everything in between" – Karen Connelly, author of </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Lizard Cage</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Burmese
Lessons</i><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<b>For more information about the Reading Series, please visit </b><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">canlitkicksass.blogspot.<wbr>ca</a>
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<div><i style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.<br>
</i><i style="font-size: 12.666666984558105px;">Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i></div>
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