Thursdays Writing Collective

Vancouver poet Fiona Tinwei Lam visited the Thursdays Collective today, November 5, 2009. Fiona began with offering a prompt: a line from her poem, “I Don’t Understand Love,” from Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, 2002). The line is, “I see them on the bus in the seat in front of me,” and the classroom riffed on […]

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On May 7, 2009, Dr John Asfour visited the Thursdays writing class at the Carnegie Centre. Dr. Asfour is a Lebanese-Canadian poet, writer, and teacher and is the first writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa house. He is the author of four books of poetry in English and two in Arabic. He resides in Montreal, Quebec, […]

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