Gibsons Library: Poetry Reading: Arleen Paré

Join us for a poetry reading with Arleen Paré, featuring poems from her recent collection Encrypted, an intimate and moving exploration of family, mental health, and intergenerational connection through her relationship with her grandson.

Arleen Paré is a Victoria writer with ten collections of poetry, one chapbook and one co-edited anthology. She’s been short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay BC Award, and has won the Victoria Butler Book Prize, a CBC Bookie Prize, the bpNichol Chapbook Award, the American Golden Crown Award for Lesbian Poetry, twice, and a Governor Generals’ Award for Poetry. She lives with her wife, Chris Fox, in Victoria on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people.

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