RCLAS presents Poetic Justice In Celebration of National Poetry Month Featuring Isabella Wang & Catherine Lewis with Alan Hill

Royal City Literary Arts Society presents “Poetic Justice”
In Celebration of National Poetry Month
Sunday, April 14 from 2-4pm

Featuring poets Isabella Wang and Catherine Lewis with host Alan Hill.

Plus, additional readings from “A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster”, the poetry postcard anthology project, curated and edited by Alan Hill, published in 2021 by the City of New Westminster.

Open Mic.

Located at the New West Artists exhibit at the
📍#IHeartNewWest Community Art Space Columbia Square Plaza, Downtown New West.

📌UNIT 103, 78 Tenth Street, New Westminster.

Catherine Lewis (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer and poet. Her debut poetry chapbook Zipless (845 Press) is a finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards, including Bi Writer of the Year. Her writing has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and published in The Fiddlehead, PRISM international, The Humber Literary Review, Pulp Literature, and Plenitude Magazine. A graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, she lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

Isabella Wang is the author of the chapbook, On Forgetting a Language, and her full-length debut, Pebble Swing, shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Among other recognitions, she has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. She is in her Masters of Sociology at SFU. An editor on the Room collective, she is also a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House, poetry mentor with the UBC Learning Exchange, web coordinator with poetry in canada, and directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program, 4827 Revise Revision St.

Alan Hill was born in the UK and immigrated to Canada in 2005. He is the former Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster, BC (2017-2020), former president of the Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS), and was the editor and curator of A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster, published in partnership with New Westminster Arts Services. His writing has been published internationally and his poetry has appeared in Event, CV2, Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, subTerrain, Poetry is Dead, among others. He works in the field of community development and immigrant settlement and lives in New Westminster, BC. His book In the Blood was published by Caitlin Press in 2022.