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The Single Onion celebrates Black History Month with a special event curated by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, and featuring poets Samantha Jones, Tolu Oloruntoba, and Iheoma J. Uzomba.WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 20, 7 pm
WHERE: Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW
Streaming: You can also stream the event live on The Single Onion YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@SingleOnionPoetry
About the Poets:
Samantha Jones is a poet, editor, and earth scientist who has called Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary, Alberta) home since 2006. Sam describes herself as a mixed-race woman or as both Black Canadian and white settler with roots in Nova Scotia, Québec, and Ontario. She is a journal and magazine enthusiast with words in CV2, Room, GeoHumanities, the Capilano Review, the Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. Sam has two experimental chapbooks that explore living with OCD—Site Orientation (The Blasted Tree) and wallpaper (Model Press). Her full-length poetry collection, Attic Rain, was published by NeWest Press in September 2024.
Tolu Oloruntoba has been an itinerant project manager, general practice physician, and editor. He is the author of The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), Each One a Furnace, and Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2022, 2025). His work has won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for English Language Poetry.
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is an assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada. An award-winning fiction writer, poet and children’s novelist, Umezurike is the author of literary works such as there’s more (2023), Double Wahala, Double Trouble (2021), Wish Maker (2021), and a co-editor of Wreaths for a Wayfarer (2020).
Iheoma J. Uzomba is a spoken word artist and poet with publications in Rattle Magazine, Palette Poetry, The Shore Poetry, The Rising Phoenix Review, Chestnut Review, and Isele Magazine, among others. In 2022, she was the winner of the Lagos-London poetry contest and is a Poetry Translation Center (UK) UNDERTOW Fellow.
The Single Onion takes place the third Thursday of the month, nine times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at www.singleonion.com
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, the League of Canadian Poets, the Calgary Arts Development, and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Shelf Life Books, 1302 4 St SW #100,Calgary, Alberta, Canada
