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Rita Wong

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Background

Biography

Associate Professor, Faculty of Culture and Communities, Emily Carr University of Art and Design / Professeure adjointe, Faculté de la culture et des communautés, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Rita Wong is a celebrated Canadian poet and scholar who brings to the workshop not only her considerable skills in poetics, but also deeply valuable experience as the current Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded research/creation project entitled "Downstream: A Poetics of Water." Wong's presentation will significantly enhance the workshop's attention to water's cultural and poetic aspects, which is a key focus of the workshop, while also remaining ever-attentive to the local materiality of the water she describes.

Rita Wong est une universitaire et poète canadienne renommée qui contribuera à l’atelier non seulement ses talents poétiques considérables, mais aussi son expérience probante à titre de chercheuse principale du projet de recherche-création financé par le CRSH et intitulé « Downstream: A Poetics of Water. » La présentation de Wong mettra en valeur de manière significative les aspects culturel et poétique de l’eau, les mettant au premier plan vu leur importance pour cet atelier, tout en portant une attention constante à la matérialité locale de l’eau qu’elle décrit.

Please see / Voir Untapping Watershed Mind (co-authored with Christian)

Veuillez voir le résumé: Untapping Watershed Mind (v.f.) (coauteur: Christian).

Publications

Books of poetry / Livres de Poésie :

  • sybil unrest (co-authored with Larissa Lai), Line Books, 2008.
  • forage, Nightwood Editions, 2007.
  • monkeypuzzle, Press Gang, 1998.

Inclusion of poetry in the following anthologies / Poésie incluse dans les anthologies suivantes :

  • Prismatic Publics, Coach House, 2009.
  • A Verse Map of Vancouver, Anvil, 2009.
  • Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts, Pearson, 2008.
  • Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures, Oxford UP, 2008.
  • Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry, Mercury, 2005.;
  • The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War, Three Quarters, 2003.