Tag: poetry
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Lattes with Ladies: Huong Vo!
For this edition of Lattes with Ladies, I interview the multi-disciplinary Huong Vo about poetry in the pandemic and really choosing what stories you want to read and write. Huong Vo is poet (both spoken word and on the page), career coach, and yoga practitioner. Her recent poem for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage…
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Beyond Asian Heritage Month: A Reading List
Since 2002, the month of May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Being the largest, most populous continent in the world, there are so many works from so many authors to read! The thousands of years of history within each country and between many of them has produced a complex and rich background that it…
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Pride Reading List
Pride month is over but that doesn’t mean that celebrations have to stop! Celebrate a second Pride month (or all year around if you like) with these LGBT2Q+ books. In this case, these are books that either are written by LGBT2Q+ authors and/or feature LGBT2Q+ characters, as recommended by members of the LGBT2Q+ community in…
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The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
What does twenty-two years old look like? “In love, impressed, humbled, scared.” That is exactly how Marina Keegan felt as she was graduating from Yale in 2012 and how it feels to read her book The Opposite of Loneliness. I selected Keegan’s book after I read the original essay. I heard about her talent, her job…