Poetry Reading with Katerina Canyon at the Lamplighters in Olympia, WA

Join Orca Books at the Lamplighters for a live reading and discussion with Katerina Canyon!

Katerina Canyon?is an Award-Winning Poet, Best Selling Author, civil rights?activist, and essayist.?She is a writer who has overcome some serious obstacles?and trauma. Her book?Surviving Home?which was released on November 9, 2021,?is a collection of poems that serve as a memoir of the trauma she experienced?and overcame.

Concisely arresting and challenging the beliefs of family and the fantasies of?tradition, the poems in?Surviving Home?show that home is a place that you?endure rather than a place where you are nurtured. With unyielding cadence and?unparalleled sadness and warmth, Katerina Canyon contemplates the prejudice?and limitations buried in a person’s African American heritage: parents that?seem to care for you with one hand and slap you with the other, the secret?desires to be released from the daily burdens of life, as well as the surprising?ways a child chooses to amuse herself. Finding resilience in the unexpected, this?collection tears down the delicate facades of family.

“A harrowing collection by a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet… The poet’s language?can also be visceral and gripping …?An often cathartic and poignant set of poems?about endurance and the cycle of abuse.”?–?Kirkus?Reviews

Event date:?

Friday, April 29, 2022 –?5:00pm?to?6:00pm

Event address:?

211 4th Ave E

Olympia,?WA?98501

To learn more, go to?https://www.orcabooks.com/event/live-event-katerina-canyon-lamplighters