Poetry Ember
Doors at 6:45PM / Start at 7:00PM
Meet at the entrance at the corner of Burdett and Blanshard
Beneath the cloak of night the EMBER sessions await. Here, local honored poets guide your journey. Each session is led by a different Poet, sharing their secrets and leading you through poetic exercises. *"LIT" and "ember" are scheduled every two weeks on alternating Tuesdays. This Poetry Ember we have Xiao Yue Shan guiding us through one of her writing exercises. Learn more about her below. Come and write your poetry at "ember" and share your poetry at "LIT".
Doors : 6:45PM
Workshop Start Time : 7:00PM
Non-Members: $10
HOO Members: Free (Become a Member)
Xiao Yue Shan
Xiao Yue Shan is a poet, writer, editor, and translator. Born in Dongying, China and living on Vancouver Island. The collection, then telling be the antidote, won the Tupelo Press Berkshire Prize and was published in 2023. The chapbook, How Often I Have Chosen Love, won the Frontier Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published in 2019. She has received the New Millennium Award for Poetry and the Juxtaprose Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, the Artlyst Art to Poetry Award, and the Ambit Poetry Competition. Poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Poetry Northwest, and more. Prose works have appeared in Granta, 3:AM Magazine, Electric Literature, Cleveland Review of Books, The Shanghai Literary Review, and more. Poem-films have shown in festivals in London, Vienna, New York City, and Athens. Her work has been supported by the Canadian Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and Arts Council Tokyo. She runs the Beijing-based, bilingual literary journal Spittoon Literary Magazine, and edits the Asymptote Journal blog. Her website is shellyshan.com