
Cathy Xinman: But by Choice
Xinman’s poem, “But by Choice”, has been inspired by the United States government’s decision to launch a tariff fight with Canada.

Xinman’s poem, “But by Choice”, has been inspired by the United States government’s decision to launch a tariff fight with Canada.

Xinman is a B.C. poet who writes in English and Chinese. Her English-language collection is entitled Where You Love Yourself.

Teresa Wing Sum Tse wrote this poem at the first meeting that she attended in the Creative Writing Club at Columbia College.

Xinman, a B.C. poet who writes verses in English and Chinese, composed this ode in advance of Lunar New Year.

In her poem “No Second Vancouver”, Xinman offers her observations on the largest city in Western Canada.

许多诗人在童年或青少年时期就爱上了诗歌这种艺术形式。然而,Grace Kwan(使用 they/them 的代名词)直到在西门菲莎大学 (Simon Fraser University) 研究所就读时,才开始认真创作诗歌。

許多詩人在童年或青少年時期就愛上了詩歌這種藝術形式。然而,Grace Kwan(使用 they/them 的代名詞)直到在西門菲莎大學 (Simon Fraser University) 研究所就讀時,才開始認真創作詩歌。

Many poets fall in love with their artform in childhood or as teens. Kwan, on the other hand, started writing poetry in grad school at SFU.

« Nous sommes partis de Science World sur le brise-lames de False Creek avec l’intention de lire des poèmes aux inconnus, » Spenst dit à Pancouver autour d’un café dans un Starbucks du coin.

Spenst, a language instructor and resident of the West End of Vancouver, has written four collections and 15 chapbooks.










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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
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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