Join Antler River Poetry on Wednesday, February 26 for a spectacular evening of poetry, with readings by Em Dial and Michelle Doege!
The event will take place at Landon Branch Library (167 Wortley Road, London ON). Readings are from 7:00-8:30pm. We encourage you to wear a mask to protect vulnerable members of our community.
Em Dial is a queer, Black, Taiwanese, Japanese, and White, chronically ill poet, grower, and educator born and raised in the Bay Area of California, currently living in Toronto. They are the author of In the Key of Decay (Palimpsest Press, 2024), and their work can be found in the Literary Review of Canada, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere.
Michelle Doege’s debut book of poems, Root of Light (Shanti Arts, 2023), explores border crossings and migrations, the weavings of ancestors and trees, and the boldness of living one’s true life. Her story “End of a Rainbow” appears in Wherever I Find Myself: Stories of Canadian Immigrant Women (Caitlin Press, 2017) and “Siva’s Fire” was shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize (2021 & 2022). She holds an MFA in poetry/mixed genre writing from Augsburg College (Minneapolis). Michelle has fond memories of serving as committee member and workshop facilitator for Poetry London, now Antler River Poetry. In her new community—on Syilx territory in what is now Vernon, BC?she is a featured poet in Why We Write: Poets of Vernon (2021) and co-founder of the Valley Voices Reading Series. For more info: www.michelledoegepoet.com
They are grateful for our generous event sponsors including Palimpsest Press, London Arts Council, City of London, Ontario Arts Council, Government of Ontario, Canada Council for the Arts, League of Canadian Poets, digibee.net, and London Public Library.
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