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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We will close this season of the Reading Series with a double serving of reading with Larissa Lai and Rita Wong! Please join us on 17 March at 4:30 pm in STJ 2009. <br>
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Make that a triple serving: the icing on the cake will be opening act Rameesha Qasi.<br>
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The reading is free and all are welcome!<br>
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Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, <i>When Fox Is a Thousand</i> and <i>Salt Fish Girl</i>; two books of poetry, <i>sybil unrest</i> (with Rita Wong) and <i>Automaton Biographies</i>; a chapbook, <i>Eggs in the Basement</i>; and most recently, a critical
book, <i>Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s</i>. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, the Sunburst
Award, the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award, the bpNichol Chapbook Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and directs The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing there.<br>
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Rita Wong is the author of four books of poetry: <i>undercurrent</i> (forthcoming in 2015 with Nightwood), <i>sybil unrest</i> (co-written with Larissa Lai, Line Books 2008), <i>forage</i> (Nightwood 2007), and <i>monkeypuzzle</i> (Press Gang 1998). <i>forage</i> won
Canada Reads Poetry 2011. Wong received the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Award in 1997, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008. She is currently researching the poetics of water. Her work investigates the relationships between contemporary
poetics, social justice, ecology, and decolonization.<br>
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Please visit us at <a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</a><br>
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<i>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.<br>
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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