EVENT LINK: https://tinyurl.com/lunch-poems
October 18th, 3pm EST, Virtual, Free

Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month. October's online Lunch Poems reading features poets Pushpa Acharya & Gillian Sze.

Pushparaj Acharya is a poet born in Nepal. His poetry collections, Chāyākāla (“The Phantom Time,” Fine Print, 2006) is in Nepali and Dream Catcher (Vajra, 2012) is in English. He collaborated with an Edmonton-based artist and two other poets to produce Somnio: The Way We See It (TiPSY Press, 2015), a book that received the Cultural Diversity Grant from the Edmonton Arts Council. His Nepali translation of Jean-Claude Carrière’s and Peter Brook’s play The Conference of the Birds was performed in India and Nepal. He has written screenplays for films and made documentaries on art, cities and food. Pushpa is also a literary scholar and has taught in the universities in Canada and Nepal.

Gillian Sze is the author of multiple poetry collections, including Peeling Rambutan, Redrafting Winter, and Panicle, which were all finalists for the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her latest book, Quiet Night Think, was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022 and received the 2023 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Gillian has also written books for children. Her debut picture book, The Night Is Deep and Wide, was listed as one of the best books for kids in 2021 by the New York Public Library. Her work has been translated into Slovenian, French, Italian, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish and Greek. Originally from Winnipeg, she now lives in Montreal where she teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.