EVENTS
Word Vancouver Fundraiser
NOURISHED: COOKING, COMEDY & COMPASSION
February 24
6-8:30 PST
Compassion (7 pm) After feasting on food feed your soul! Join world renowned psychiatrist, speaker, and bestselling author Dr. Gabor Maté in a conversation on compassion and caring as the key to healing. Next, enjoy poets Sachiko Murakami Render (Arsenal Pulp Press) and Ash Winters Run Riot: Ninety Poems in Ninety Days (Caitlin Press). This event is moderated by Simi Sara. Buy your tickets for this online event.
NEWS
Render is a finalist for the 2020 Governor-General's Literary Award for Poetry!
READINGS / INTERVIEWS
Sachiko read with Ash Winters, Tara Borin, and Cassandra Blanchard for Word Vancouver's Poetic Perspectives on Addiction and Recovery.
rob mclennan interviewed Sachiko for periodicities.
Sachiko read for Poetry London.
Sachiko read for the Real Vancouver Writers' Series.
Sachiko read for the Flywheel Reading Series.
Sachiko read for the November LitLive Reading Series.
Sachiko spoke with Nina Jane Drystek for the Ottawa International Writers Festival.
Sachiko spoke with Andrew French on the Page Fright podcast.
Sachiko was on a panel at the Word on the Street with AF Moritz and Randy Lundy, hosted by Kirby. Watch on the WOTS YouTube Channel.
Sachiko spoke with Amanda Earl on the Small Machine Talks podcast.
REVIEWS
Jessi MacEachern reviewed Render for Canadian Literature.
Margaryta Golovchenko reviewed Render for Anomaly.
Vange Schramek reviewed Render for The Humber Literary Review.
Khashayar Mohammadi reviewed Render for ARC Poetry Magazine.
Margaret Christakos read Render for her Hoopla: Listening to Poets series.
Jonathan Ball reviewed Render for the Winnipeg Free Press.
rob mclennan reviewed Render.
Jonathan Dick reviewed Render for The Puritan.
Render makes the fall book previews on Ms., Bustle, Asian American Poetry, poets.org and CBC Books.