Literary Family & Kids
We'll be celebrating Canadian books all day. Join us online as Rebecca Thomas reads from her children’s book; Swift Fox All Along, followed by a Q&A.
Rebecca Thomas is an award-winning Mi’kmaw poet. She is Halifax’s former Poet Laureate (2016-2018) and has been published in multiple journals and magazines. She coordinated the Halifax Slam Poetry team from 2014 to 2017, leading them to three national competitions with the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Her first children’s book, I’m Finding My Talk, was a Globe & Mail Top 100 Pick of 2019, as well as a CBC Best Picture Book of 2019, and has been nominated for First Nations Communities READ 2020. Thomas’s first adult collection of poetry, I Place You Into the Fire, was a CBC Best Canadian Poetry pick of 2020.
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We'll be celebrating Canadian books all day. Join us online as Rebecca Thomas reads from her children’s book; Swift Fox All Along, followed by a Q&A.
Rebecca Thomas is an award-winning Mi’kmaw poet. She is Halifax’s former Poet Laureate (2016-2018) and has been published in multiple journals and magazines. She coordinated the Halifax Slam Poetry team from 2014 to 2017, leading them to three national competitions with the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Her first children’s book, I’m Finding My Talk, was a Globe & Mail Top 100 Pick of 2019, as well as a CBC Best Picture Book of 2019, and has been nominated for First Nations Communities READ 2020. Thomas’s first adult collection of poetry, I Place You Into the Fire, was a CBC Best Canadian Poetry pick of 2020.
Register in advance.
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