Part two in a story about Canadian poets chasing $65K prize
Vancouver poet in the running for the Griffin Prize with a book about Black Womanhood Last week the Caribbean Camera told readers about Guyanese Canadian poet Kale Kellough and his book Magnetic Equator that is in the consideration for the $65,000 Griffin Prize. This week, as part two of the story, we introduce you to Chantel Gibson the author of How She Read . It too is in the shortlist for Canada’s biggest and richest annual poetry prize. Chantal Gibson is an artist and an awa rd-winning teacher. She teaches writing and visual communication in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University. She lives Vancouver with deep roots in Nova Scotia’s black community. How She Read is Gibson’s debut book of poetry. Her poems challenge historic representations of Black womanhood and Otherness in the Canadian cultural imagination. How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and...