Tag Archives: Toronto Women’s Bookstore

LOVING QUEER WOMEN OF COLOUR: A TALK WITH POET AKHAJI ZAKIYA

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Black Coffee Poet

Loving Queer Women Of Colour: A Talk With Poet Akhaji Zakiya By Jorge Antonio Vallejos “I love me some women of colour who are queer,” says Akhaji Zakiya. The Toronto writer recently launched her new book Inside Her in front … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Akhaji Zakiya, Black women, Feminist of Colour, Inside Her by Akhaji Zakiya, Lesbian Literature, Queer Literature, Queer Women of Colour, Racism at PRIDE parade, Racism in LGBTQ Community, Racism in queer community, Self Publishing, Toronto Women's Bookstore | Leave a comment

INTERVIEW WITH TORONTO POET TARA-MICHELLE ZINIUK

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Black Coffee Poet

Tara-Michelle Ziniuk is a writer, performer, activist, and new mother working in Guelph and Toronto. She has been published across North America and is the author of two collections of poems: Emergency Contact and Somwhere To Run From. BCP: Why poetry? … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged "Emergency Contact" by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, "Somewhere To Run From" by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk, Black Coffeee Poet, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Chrystos, Coach House Books, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council Writers Reserve Program, Tara Michelle Ziniuk, Tightrope books, Toronto Women's Bookstore | 1 Comment

INTERVIEW WITH FIREWEED #75: THE MIXED RACE ISSUE CO-EDITOR MAY LUI

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Black Coffee Poet

May Lui is a Toronto-based writer who is mixed-race, anti-racist, feminist and an all-around troublemaker. She blogs at maysie.ca, ranting and raving at any and all injustices and uses the f-bomb regularly. She’s been published in the Toronto Star, Fireweed … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged "FIREWEED #75: The Mixed Race Issue", "Miscegenation Blues", "Siren Magazine", "Sister Vision Press", "With A Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn", Black Coffee Poet, Dionne Brand, Elizabeth Ruth, Farzana Doctor, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Lisa Amin, May Lui, mixed race identity, Mixed Race Women, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Toronto Star, Toronto Women's Bookstore, Wayson Choy | 3 Comments

QUEER LATINA POET JANET ROMERO READS HER POETRY

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Black Coffee Poet

I first met Janet Romero at Toronto Women’s Bookstore five years ago. After becoming a regular (I was there three times a week, or more) we chatted a lot eventually leading to Janet and the staff knowing what new arrivals … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged "Walking The Line" by Sporadic "The Dark Poet", Aboriginality, Black Coffee Poet, Black Coffee Poet YOUTUBE Channel, Chilean Poet, Feminst Poetry, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, Janet Romero, Latina Poetry, Latino Poetry, Mestiza, poetry, Queer Poetry, Sporadic "The Dark Poet", Toronto Women's Bookstore | Leave a comment

INTERVIEW WITH QUEER LATINA POET JANET ROMERO

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Black Coffee Poet

Janet Romero-Leiva is a queer feminist latina visual artist and writer whose explores immigrant displacement, denied aboriginality, queer and of colour existence, living and loving in dos lenguas, and the continuous intersection of identities that shape who she is and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Aboriginal, Aboriginality, Black Coffee Poet, Cherrie Moraga, Chrystos, Gloria Anzaldua, https://blackcoffeepoet.com/, I Ask the Impossible: Poems, Janet Romero, Latina Poetry, Lee Maracle, Loverboys: Stories, Queer Latina Poetry, Qwo-Li Driskoll, So Far From God: A Novel, The Guardians, The Mixquiahala Letters, Toronto Women's Bookstore | 2 Comments

THE MARROW’S TELLING

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Black Coffee Poet

The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion By Eli Clare By Jorge Antonio Vallejos I remember when I first saw Eli Clare’s collection of poetry The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. I was checking out the poetry section at Toronto Women’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged 1851, Battle Rock, Black Coffee Poet, Canada, Captain J. M. Kirkpatrick, Cerebral Palsy, child abuse, Cleaning Dead Birds, crip, crip. cripple, Cripple, disability, eli clare, Gaping, Gawking, Hanging Loose, Last Refrain, MIchigan Review, Natalie Goldberg, No Longer Small and Lonely, poetry, Port Orford, Queer, Queer Poetry, Scars, sexual abuse, Staring, stolen land, surviving sexual abuse, The Marrow's Telling, Toronto Women's Bookstore, Trans, Trans man, Transgender, Tremors, United States, white man, white men, white privilege, Writing Down the Bones | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: Toronto Women’s Bookstore

LOVING QUEER WOMEN OF COLOUR: A TALK WITH POET AKHAJI ZAKIYA

INTERVIEW WITH TORONTO POET TARA-MICHELLE ZINIUK

INTERVIEW WITH FIREWEED #75: THE MIXED RACE ISSUE CO-EDITOR MAY LUI

QUEER LATINA POET JANET ROMERO READS HER POETRY

INTERVIEW WITH QUEER LATINA POET JANET ROMERO

THE MARROW’S TELLING

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