by Kogawa House | Jan 8, 2019 | WIR - Kevin Spenst |
When I arrive at the Kogawa House and I press the code to let myself in, words leap out of my mouth to fill the empty house: “Tada ima!” The direct translation of this Japanese expression is: here now. A minimal way of saying: I’m home.
by Residencies | Jan 3, 2019 | WIR - Kevin Spenst |
I can’t believe my good fortune to be doing my first residency at the Joy Kogawa House. I will be living not only in Joy Kogawa’s childhood home, which has provided her and countless Canadians with so much inspiration, but I will also be living blocks away from where my mother lived in the late 1930s.
by Residencies | Dec 16, 2018 | Events, WIR - William Tham Wai Liang |
Join us for an evening that spotlights local emerging writers, including Natalie Lim, winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize. Natalie will read with a list of amazing new writers.
by Kogawa House | Nov 12, 2018 | WIR - Joseph Maviglia |
Guest Post by Joseph Maviglia (October 1 to November 20, 2018) Monday, October 1: Landed now in the Marpole neighbourhood of Vancouver with a touch of rain after a run-around delay changing planes at Pearson Airport in Toronto. Tuesday, October 2: Now to sit down at...
by Kogawa House | Sep 30, 2018 | WIR - William Tham Wai Liang |
Guest Post by William Wai Liang Tham Leanne Dunic’s collection of lyric-poetry drew on her heritage and defied conventions. It piqued my interest when I first heard her reading from it last year. Yet I waited until recently to read it, finally opening the book on the...
by Kogawa House | Sep 1, 2018 | WIR - Monia Mazigh |
Guest Post by Monia Mazigh This column was originally published at rabble.ca. This summer, I completed a writer’s residence in the Marpole community of Vancouver, B.C., at the Historic Joy Kogawa House. It is a privilege to be in a place that saw some of the...
