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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">We're thrilled to have poet Raoul Fernandes as our featured reader for November in this year's Languages of Home series.
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Please join us at 4:30pm on Friday 24 November in SJ1 3027.<br>
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Jenny Dong will be the opening act. <br>
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Raoul Fernandes's first collection of poems, <i>Transmitter and Receiver</i> (Nightwood Editions, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016 and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Canadian Authors
Association Award for Poetry. He has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the Best Canadian Poetry 2015. He lives and writes in Vancouver, with his wife and two sons.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The readings are free and all are welcome, so please spread the word! Hope to see you there.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">Please visit us at </span><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:#1155CC">http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><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>
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