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With spoken word artist & author Lisa Shen
A landmark moment for a poet is to see their poems in a published format. Spoken word artist and author Lisa Shen performs pieces from her recently published book of poetry, A Story Ending in Redwoods, and outlines the process of creating a chapbook—a small, published collection of poems.
Using A Story Ending in Redwoods as an example, Shen talks about the process of choosing, sequencing, and arranging poems into a chapbook to provide a mesmerizing and satisfying experience for the reader.
Presented in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets
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Lisa Shen is a writer and spoken word artist and the 2023-2025 Youth Poet Laureate of the City of Mississauga. She won the 2024 Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize and was shortlisted for the 2023 League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award. Lisa has toured across North America and her work has appeared on CBC Radio, TEDx, and Write About Now. Her first chapbook, A Story Ending in Redwoods, was recently published with Anstruther Press.
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Tansley Woods Branch Library opened on 14 September 1996, at the time the first new branch in 28 years, to serve a growing northeast community.
