{"id":10281,"date":"2023-06-07T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/?page_id=10281"},"modified":"2023-11-24T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:13:36","slug":"jane-shi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/programs-events\/archives\/caardi-2023\/jane-shi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Shi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jane Shi: Forms That Free Us, Keep Us Alive: A Craft Jam Session <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday, June 24, 2023, 1 \u2013 3 PM PDT <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Centre A (Zoom)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Register<\/span> HERE<\/b><\/a><\/em><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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When writing against inheritances of civility, what forms and techniques do we find and what forms find us? In this craft jam session, Jane Shi will discuss poems from contemporary poets that reimagine relation through kinship, care networks, dangerous solidarities, grief, and confronting everyday violence. She will share lessons from her creative process and lead an activity where participants play with voice, form, shape, and audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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wander, wander<\/b><\/p>\n

After\u00a0EggPlantEgg\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Behind this silver world<\/span><\/p>\n

How does a blimp bloom?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How does a father\u2019s three older sisters find the tough to smile?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If we\u2019re all a blimp for love\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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(Dare someone to love me)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve decided to be a kind of fishing hook<\/span><\/p>\n

My one end holds the sharp of another\u2019s beginning\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Missing you in the silence, I\u2019m candle-filled stupor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Missing you, banging on the glass door panes of cartilage and admissions<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-only museums\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The lie is I\u2019m glad you know who scooped up a quarter and dime of my life\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you could follow me to the courthouse to an Antarctica cracked with skyscrapers<\/span><\/p>\n

Carry each wrinkle like dignity is a butterfly\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

O dream of coming true in the morning\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0O you, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 aren\u2019t admission\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You will remember me saying I am gonna get married to me someday<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll live to a hundred and eighty and I\u2019ll be happy-happy<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was hungry, I visited\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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you through the world. The future will slap\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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kick, wander around the field, looking<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for you, looking for you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

looking for you\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Liner Note\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Within EggPlantEgg\u2019s lyricism and 80s guitar are soliloquies of stumbling in the dark at 3am for a glass of water.<\/span><\/p>\n

That glimmer, an unlikely reflection that keeps a spirit\u2014holding\/letting go the storying of bad trouble.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How we might wait for each other on the other side of silver, the convexness of crisp meridian.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Saturn Return autistic burnout of our eyebrows, gentries stuffing pockets with heartlessness. Like hooves. Like guitar strings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your ghost month altar lined with a red tote bag. Flashing the tiled earth with <\/span>solidarity <\/span><\/i>with <\/span>forever.<\/span><\/i> Open blue pill bottle candle holder. Rock from your maybe-date. Coffee Candy. Everyone\u2019s Favourite.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or, say yes to open shelves. Or baby\u2019s eyelash. Or palliative uncaring. Chorus. Chorus. Chorus. That trembling glass.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jane Shi<\/b> is the author of the chapbook <\/span>Leaving Chang\u2019e on Read <\/span><\/i>(Rahila\u2019s Ghost Press, 2022). Her poem \u201cbefore you were born\u201d won <\/span>The Capilano Review<\/span><\/i>\u2019s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. Her other writing appears in Disability Visibility Blog, <\/span>The Offing<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry<\/span><\/i> (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Photo of Jane Shi, courtesy of the speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Accessibility: The gallery is wheelchair and walker accessible. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us at (604) 683-8326 or info@centrea.org. As the workshop will take place in the format of a Zoom Webinar, audio transcripts will be available upon request.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Centre A is situated on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. We honour, respect, and give thanks to our hosts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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