An author reading featuring Rayanne Haines, Jaclyn Desforges and Evelyna Ekoko-Kay.
A live reading with author Rayanne Haines, who discusses her new book What Kind of Daughter? She is joined by guest authors Jaclyn Desforges and Evelyna Ekoko-Kay.
What Kind of Daughter? is a hybrid collection of poetry and essay about Haines life growing up in rural Alberta and the loss of her mother to cancer In, What Kind of Daughter? Haines reflects on the choices women are asked to make and challenges readers to reflect on the way we value, devalue, or simply exist within the spaces of gender and grief.
Rayanne Haines is an award-winning hybrid author and Pushcart-nominated poet, as well as a producer of films, stage shows and panels. Rayanne has penned three poetry collections: The Stories in My Skin (2013), Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning (2017) and Tell The Birds Your Body Is Not A Gun (2021) which won the 2022 Stephan G. Stephansson, Alberta Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry and the National ReLit Award for Poetry. A previous writer in residence for Edmonton Public Libraries, she hosts the literary podcast Crow Reads, is the president for the League of Canadian Poets and is an Assistant Professor at MacEwan University. Rayanne has performed across Canada and has been published in the Globe and Mail, Minola Review, Fiddlehead, Grain, Prairie Fire and others.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults (18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Literary |
TAGS: | Reading | Literature | In Branch | Books | Author Visit | Author Events |
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