Victorious Voices Poetry Workshop @ Haus of Owl (Doors @ 4:15-4:30PM) 4:30 - 5:30PM
Meet at the entrance at the corner of Burdett and Blanshard

Join Winnipeg Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi for Writing Window, a 1-hour poetry workshop as part of Victorious Voices Festival!
"A thing I love in poems is when they use observations or details about our everyday life to cast a light or a question. In this workshop, we will read and discuss poems by Black writers, Indigenous writers and writers of color who are writing today, alongside us, and considering our everyday. We will then write our own windows, using details from our lives, loves and obsessions to write into the world."

CHIMWEMWE UNDI:

Chimwemwe Undi is a poet, writer and editor based on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Brick, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature, Canthius, Prairie Fire, Room Magazine, CBC Manitoba, BBC World and others, and at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Verses Festival of Words and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

She holds an MA in linguistics from York University, and practices law in her home province of Manitoba.

In 2020, Chim was named one of CBC Manitoba’s Future 40. In 2022, she received the John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards. Her debut full-length collection, Scientific Marvel, will be published by House of Anansi Press in 2024.

She is Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024.