The Body Poetic: Therese Estacion & Charlie Petch

Therese Estacion, Charlie Petch and Catherine Graham 

The Body Poetic: Therese Estacion & Charlie Petch

Therese Estacion, Charlie Petch and Catherine Graham 

9:00pm

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Join Toronto writers Therese Estacion and Charlie Petch for an evening of poetry and conversation. Their debut collections are an intimate portrayal and exploration of disability, gender and identity. Estacion’s Phantompains is a visceral, surreal collection dealing with loss and grief, inspired by Filipino horror and folktales, Petch’s Why I Was Late fuses text and performance to a decades long trans/masculine coming-of-age story, finding heroes in unexpected places. With beautiful prose and humour, these poets hold nothing back.

Interviewer: Catherine Graham

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Join Toronto writers Therese Estacion and Charlie Petch for an evening of poetry and conversation. Their debut collections are an intimate portrayal and exploration of disability, gender and identity. Estacion’s Phantompains is a visceral, surreal collection dealing with loss and grief, inspired by Filipino horror and folktales, Petch’s Why I Was Late fuses text and performance to a decades long trans/masculine coming-of-age story, finding heroes in unexpected places. With beautiful prose and humour, these poets hold nothing back.

Interviewer: Catherine Graham

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An error was made regarding Charlie’s pronouns in the introduction of this event. Charlie Petch uses he/they pronouns.

Conversation
Reading

Featured Authors

Therese Estacion
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She spent her childhood between Cebu and Gihulngan, two islands found in the archipelago named by its colonizers as the Philippines, before she moved to Canada with her family when she was ten. She is a teacher and is currently studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability. Therese lives in Toronto. Her poems have been published in CV2 and PANK Magazine and shortlisted for the Marina Nemat Award. Phantompains is her debut book.

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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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Catherine Graham 
Catherine Graham’s collection, Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Her sixth collection of poems, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award. Her debut novel Quarry won The Miramichi Reader Award for Best Fiction, an IPPY Gold Medal for Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award. The Most Cunning Heart is included in The Miramichi Reader’s Best Fiction Book of the Year list. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award and co-hosts The Hummingbird Podcast. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems appears 2023. Visit her online at www.catherinegraham.com and @catgrahampoet.

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9:00pm

Wednesday, October 27

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