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What an incredible lineup of readers we had tonight, thank you to Blessing O. Nwodo, Salima Tourkmani-MacDonald, melanie brannagan frederiksen, and Cassandra Myers for sharing all of your captivating poetry!melanie brannagan frederiksen (she/her) lives and writes in Winnipeg, on Treaty One territory. She is the author of the chapbook poseidon's cove, athena's cave (Model Press 2021). Her poems have been published in various venues, including +doc: a journal of longer poems, Contemporary Verse 2, and Prairie Fire.Salima Tourkmani-MacDonald was born and raised in Riverview, New Brunswick. She received her BA in English and Creative Writing from St. Thomas University in Fredericton and is now in her final year of the Master’s in Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto. She is currently writing a collection of poetry under the instruction of Ian Williams and Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang. Much of her work is inspired by lived experience, and hinges on themes of race, family, and identity.Cassandra Myers (My’z) (they/she/he) is an award winning poet, performer, dancer, illustrator, and counselor from Tkaronto, Ontario. As a queer, non-binary, South-Asian-Italian, crip, mad, survivor of sexual violence, Cassandra's work is cinematic and juicy with it's critical anti-oppressive eye. Cassandra’s work has won national literary and spoken word titles including the National Magazine GOLD Award in Poetry and Champion of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Their work is the kind that tugs concepts into frays, tieing new solar systems in their wake. Find their poetry in ARC Poetry Magazine, Canthius, the Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere.Blessing O. Nwodo was born in Nigeria and resides in Toronto. She holds an MFA from the Canadian University of Guelph, and served as Editor of Held Magazine. A graduate of the University of Nigeria, she was awarded Best Female Writer in 2017. Her stories have won the 2016 Nigerian Travel Story, been shortlisted for the 2021 Toyin Fálọlá Prize, the 2021 African Writers Awards, and the 2019 Lost Balloon Pushcart Prize for Speculative Fiction. She has been published in This Magazine, ArtsEverywhere, Humber Literary Review, The Common, Brittle Paper, FBOMB, Kalahari Review, and others. When she's not relishing fashion, she can often be found pulverizing the patriarchy. She is working on a collection of speculative fiction, and a novel.Celebrate poetry month with us next week with readings from Blessing O. Nwodo, Cassandra Myers, Salima Tourkmani-MacDonald, and melanie brannagan frederiksen! Don’t miss out on this amazing line-up of readers as well as a brief sample of a workshop we’ll be hosting with Nicole Breit from Spark Your Story!