Lunch Poems at SFU | Calvin Wharton and Wanda John-Kehewin

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Calvin Wharton is the Chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, and a former editor of Event magazine. He co-edited the poetry anthology, East of Main, with Tom Wayman, and has published a chapbook of poems, Visualized Chemistry; the non-fiction Rowing, with Silken Laumann; and a collection of short stories, Three Songs by Hank Williams. His most recent book is a collection of poetry, The Song Collides (Anvil Press).

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Teck Gallery in SFU’s Harbour Centre Campus 515 West Hasting Street, Vancouver, BC

Wanda John-Kehewin is a mixed-blood Cree writer originally from Kehewin, Alberta. Raised on a reservation with only pencils and paper as her creative outlet, she attributes that hard, simple life with opening her imagination to using words to paint pictures of social justice, realism, and love. John-Kehewin uses writing as a therapeutic medium for understanding and responding to the near decimation of Native culture, language, and tradition. Her poems have been published in Quills, Salish Seas, UBC’s Aboriginal Anthology, and SFU's The Writers' Studio anthology emerge. She has performed at numerous readings, including for the Writers' Union of Canada. Her first book of poetry is In The Dog House (Talon), published in December 2012.