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Cathy Xinman: Christmas Eve

Xinman’s newest poem, “Christmas Eve”, is a meditation on stillness, listening, and the quiet birth of peace.

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Cathy Xinman: Sunday Is Real

In “Sunday Is Real”, the Canadian poet distills the hush of a single day into an intimate meditation on love and presence.

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Cathy Xinman: I Try to Become a Morning

Xinman’s poem, “I Try to Become a Morning”, explores the exquisite tension between a desire for purity and the burden of earthly existence.

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Cathy Xinman: The Sun Is Never Blind

Xinman’s poem reflects on time, aging, and human mortality, while celebrating the power of love, shared human experience, and the sun.

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The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.

We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.

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