December Celebrations: QueerAsian Reading this Wednesday and more!
Join us on Dec 6 for a celebration of writing from our QueerAsian circle, and on Dec 14 for an evening of storytelling with WIR Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho.
Blog #2 | Guest Post by Karen Parrish
“In […] haiku I felt my grief was opening into something else and that something was love due to grief, because of grief. Perhaps I’d felt this love all along, with my husband, with our children, our families and friends, but it didn’t feel like just love-love, as beautiful and profound as that is. It felt like a love that was as big as it was because there had been loss, that only through loss could this love be completely seen.”
Upcoming Events at Kogawa House this November
Discover beauty and transformation in grief poetry, explore identity and home through poetry, music, and photography, and celebrate a memoir launch with us this November.
From the Lost and Found Department with Joy Kogawa
Launch of a career-spanning volume that brings together new and selected works by an iconic voice in Canadian literature
Haiku on the Journey to Healing | New WIR and Fall Events
A poet and grief group facilitator with the Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society, Karen Parrish will edit to publishable size more than 1,500 grief haikus while in residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House from October 1 to November 30, 2023, and will present two public programs during the residency.
QueerAsian 6 and Other Events at Kogawa House
Exciting week ahead: register for QueerAsian 6 & a book publishing workshop this Wednesday!