Finding Love Their Own Way: Tenille K. Campbell & Molly Cross-Blanchard

Tenille K. Campbell, Molly Cross-Blanchard and Charlie Petch

Finding Love Their Own Way: Tenille K. Campbell & Molly Cross-Blanchard

Tenille K. Campbell, Molly Cross-Blanchard and Charlie Petch

9:00pm

Saturday, October 30, 2021

Delve into the poetic worlds of Tenille K. Campbell and Molly Cross-Blanchard with an exploration of their new poetry collections. Campbell’s nedi nezu (Good Medicine), her second published collection, chronicles failed romances, decolonized desire, and growth with her trademark dry humour. Cross-Blanchard’s Exhibitionist exudes life, with awkward moments, brutal honesty and powerful imagery. Both these books challenge the standard lens of gender, identity, desire and the body, providing the two Indigenous poets with the space to create an intimate portrayal of self-expression and empowerment.

Interviewer: Charlie Petch

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Delve into the poetic worlds of Tenille K. Campbell and Molly Cross-Blanchard with an exploration of their new poetry collections. Campbell’s nedi nezu (Good Medicine), her second published collection, chronicles failed romances, decolonized desire, and growth with her trademark dry humour. Cross-Blanchard’s Exhibitionist exudes life, with awkward moments, brutal honesty and powerful imagery. Both these books challenge the standard lens of gender, identity, desire and the body, providing the two Indigenous poets with the space to create an intimate portrayal of self-expression and empowerment.

Interviewer: Charlie Petch

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Featured Authors

Tenille K. Campbell
Tenille K. Campbell is a Dene/Métis author and photographer from English River First Nation in Treaty Ten, northern Saskatchewan. Her acclaimed poetry collection, #IndianLovesPoems (Signature Editions), was shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award. Campbell is the force behind sweetmoon photography, which specializes in capturing NDN joy in its many forms. She is also the co-creator and blogger at tea&bannock, an online collective for Indigenous women photographers and artists to share their stories. Campbell completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and is working on a doctoral degree in Indigenous Literature at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Molly Cross-Blanchard
Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert, SK) and living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC). She holds an English BA from the University of Winnipeg and a Creative Writing MFA from the University of British Columbia and is the publisher of Room magazine.

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Charlie Petch
Charlie Petch is a disabled/queer/transmasculine person who resides in Toronto/Tkaronto. Petch’s full-length spoken-word vaudeville play Mel Malarkey has toured all over Canada. They have several handsome chapbooks and Late Night Knife Fights was published with LyricalMyrical Press. A musician, lighting designer, spoken word artist, award-winning playwright and host, Petch was the 2017 Poet of Honour for Spoken Word Canada, winner of the Golden Beret lifetime achievement in spoken word with The League of Canadian Poets and founder of Hot Damn it’s a Queer Slam.

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9:00pm

Saturday, October 30

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