A Poetic Environment with Cecily Nicholson

Cecily Nicholson is the author of Triage, and From the Poplars, which won the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize. Her most recent book, Wayside Sang, won a Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She volunteers with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity. Her performances, talks and residencies have been hosted by educational spaces such as New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Centre for Indigenous Research Creation at Queen's University, Woodland Pattern Book Centre, Milwaukee, and the Surrey School District. Cecily is currently the (virtual) Writer-in-Residence for the University of Windsor.  She spoke to us from her home in British Columbia. https://talonbooks.com/authors/cecily-nicholson