Author: Sina
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On Writing Rooms
I wrote about writing Rooms over at Kathryn Mockler’s Send My Love To Anyone. Read the post here!
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Event: Calgary Launch of Rooms
Shelf Life is hosting a Virtual Launch. I’m looking forward to talking to Kyle Flemmer, a former Concordia student. Register! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvc-CpqzsrG9OavwUn9dg7a2Rqkvm1XDgB
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On Plath’s Lady Lazarus & I am No Lady, Lazarus
You’ll find my essay on working with Plath’s Ariel, here in particular the poem “Lady Lazarus” which among other things, I ran through a randomizer to create my version. Full essay over on LitHub and excerpted from “Sina Queyras on Sylvia Plath, ‘Lady Lazarus’” from The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems […]
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Coming May 31st
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on […]
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Introducing Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
It’s my pleasure to announce the publication of this lovingly compiled and edited Nicole Brossard Reader from Coach House Books. I worked closely with Genevieve and Erin, but Alana Wilcox is the true Brossard champion and deserves so much applause and praise for the work she has done to bring vital feminist experimental voices–such as […]
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And Now Coordinator
I’m excited to serve as Coordinator of Concordia’s Creative Writing Program for the 2020-21 academic year. My writing and teaching have long reflected my interest in innovative texts and dynamic, embodied, and sustainable writing practices. My recent book, My Ariel, interrogates gendered power dynamics in literary circles and their impact on creative women’s lives, and my current SSHRC funded research creation […]
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Day 4, Meditations in an Emergency
www.instagram.com/p/B9y5kBVgKuw/ Day 4 It was a lot of effort to get this light in our house, and to have my desk in this position to receive it. I’m grateful for every moment of it. Pups are having breakfast in bed. Homeschooling will being at 9. I was reading a piece in the New York Times […]
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In Conversation with Myra Bloom
MB: I wanted to get you to talk about the book a little bit in the context of lyric conceptualism. In “Lyric Conceptualism, A Manifesto in Progress,” you wrote, “The Lyric Conceptualist is not necessarily a feminine body but it has the stink of the impure, a certain irreverence for the master and therefore it […]
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In Conversation
Tonight Sue Goyette, Larissa Lai and Sue Sinclair will read followed by a conversation.
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Ongoing Mentorship
I will be on sabbatical as of January 2022 & unable to take on any new students until January 2023. I’ll attach an email subscription very soon–I would like to have a sense of how many people will come. This list will also be used to update you on the next sessions and also send […]
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