About this Event
Come and celebrate the launch of Tiana Reid’s highly anticipated debut poetry collection, Nightnursing!
On Wednesday, October 7, join Tiana Reid in conversation with Farhia Tato at Another Story Bookshop.
About the book:
Resisting the conventional narratives of care and cure, Tiana Reid’s Nightnursing is a frenetic diary about sobriety and what recovery really means in a world where the innate need for “better” is both trauma and treatment. The poems in this nuanced collection delve into the terrible beauty of unbaked work, critical practice, and state-sanctioned care.
Nightnursing simultaneously runs toward and away from reality, grappling with the gravity of memory, of remembering, of a “mind constantly rewriting what happened.” The poems of this collection are experimental and playful in their depth as they drift through the haze of time, pressing fists to the boundaries of language and the self.
About the authors:
Tiana Reid’s writing has been published in Aperture, Bookforum, Dissent, Frieze, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Poets.org, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is also Assistant Professor of English at York University in Toronto, where she teaches Black literatures. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She also co-edits the magazine Pinko.
Farhia Tato is a Somali-Oromo writer, place-based curator and community organizer whose work engages with hybridity. Drawn to the unexpected ways people connect and improvise, she writes poems about surveillance, entanglement, environment and desire. Farhia is the founder and artistic director of Tender Possibilities, a participatory poetry exploration and creative placemaking initiative. Currently, she is co-developing Poetic Assembly, an interdisciplinary project that engages literature, sound and community programming as tools for cultural regeneration and relationality. At its core is a mobile library designed to circulate essential poetry and critical texts.
Event venue & nearby stays
Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Canada
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