i BANFF CENTRE SPOKEN WORD PROGRAM APRIL 17-29 2017 Banff Canada The 11th biennial Banff Centre Spoken Word residency gathered 20 artists from UK, US, Australia and Canada for 2 weeks in the Rocky Mountains to strengthen writing and performance. Treaty 7 Territory took us in and let us walk along her backbone. We listened. Explored. Literature, breath, memory and risk. I lost my voice from sheer joy. Faculty included myself Tanya Evanson (program director), Janet Rogers, Dr. Afua Cooper, Buddy Wakefield, Sheri-D Wilson (program founder) and Tanya Tagaq. All of it breathtaking. Next program in 2019. Give thanks. Photo above: Luke Wren Reid MAKING ROOM  |  MONTREAL LAUNCH Forty Years of ROOM Magazine MAY 17 2017 @L'Euguélionne Montreal Canada with readings by Tanya Evanson, Sina Queyras, Carmelita McGrath, Erín Moure.  SEMA SPACE  |  ESPACE SEMA Sufi Whirling Meditation Sessions AUGUST 27 2017 @Nyata Nyata Montreal Canada ZENSHIP  |  LILLIAN ALLEN  |  KAIE KELLOUGH Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival JUNE 14 2017 @La Vitrola, Montreal Canada   ZENSHIP minute TANYA EVANSON  |  ZENSHIP Mother Tongue Media (2016) poetics trance jazz CD BABY   BANDCAMP   ITUNES WSQ: AT SEA Women's Studies Quarterly Volume 45 Numbers 1–2: Spring/Summer 2017 (US) This issue explores the sea as a gendered and racialized site of tumult and violence. My first short story! RESIST MUCH / OBEY LITTLE Inaugural Poems to the Resistance Dispatches Editions (US 2017)