Centre for Literatures in Canada | 2023 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Wayde Compton | "Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics" @clcualberta | Uploaded September 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
On March 8, 2023, the Centre for Literatures in Canada invited poet, historian, graphic novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, and sound poet Wayde Compton to deliver the 17th annual Kreisel Lecture, titled "Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics."
This lecture probes Canada’s myths about race and multiculturalism and expands how we think about the role writers play in creating anti-racist imaginaries.
Wayde Compton has written five books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, Compton co-founded with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon Commodore Books, western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. Compton has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-2018, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer’s Studio. He is currently working on a re-imagining of The Argonautika by Apollonius of Rhodes as surrealist slave narrative set on the west coast of North America in the 18th century. Compton is currently the chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.
Thumbnail Photo Credit: Adrien Guyot
On March 8, 2023, the Centre for Literatures in Canada invited poet, historian, graphic novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, and sound poet Wayde Compton to deliver the 17th annual Kreisel Lecture, titled "Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics."
This lecture probes Canada’s myths about race and multiculturalism and expands how we think about the role writers play in creating anti-racist imaginaries.
Wayde Compton has written five books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, Compton co-founded with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon Commodore Books, western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. Compton has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-2018, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer’s Studio. He is currently working on a re-imagining of The Argonautika by Apollonius of Rhodes as surrealist slave narrative set on the west coast of North America in the 18th century. Compton is currently the chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.
Thumbnail Photo Credit: Adrien Guyot
