Dear Friends &: A reading with Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Wah

The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present the final event in our monthly reading series, Dear Friends &. The event took place at 7 pm on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at Western Front, featuring poetry by Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Wah. The evening was hosted by Deanna Fong.

Special thanks to Western Front and the BC Arts Council for their generous support of this program.

Readers’ Biographies

Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent in Toronto. He works at CookeMcDermid and serves on the board of directors for the Toronto International Festival of Authors. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, received the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose.

Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is a writer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ peoples (Vancouver, Canada). ​She is associated with the collectives Vultures, Red Queen, the Kootenay School of Writing, and About a Bicycle. Her books include ​Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000), Volume Delays (Sprang Texts, 1995), Redactive (Talonbooks, 1990 / pulped,1995), and Oral Tragedy (Tsunami Editions, 1988).

Fred Wah is a poet based in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake, Canada. Working across poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, his texts explore themes of hybridity, memory, and lineage, and often involves collaboration with visual artists.His most recent projects include Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 (Talonbooks, 2020), beholden: a poem as long as the river (Talonbooks, 2018) made in collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, and the online project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem.