Watch House
ALECC-WatchHouse from Rita Wong on Vimeo.
Rita Wong
An acclaimed poet and associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Rita Wong investigates the relationships between contemporary poetics, social justice, ecology, and decolonization. For some time now, she has been researching the poetics of water. A recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop Emerging Writer Award, Wong is the author of monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998), forage (Nightwood, 2007, short-listed for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry, winner of Canada Reads Poetry 2011), sybil unrest (Line Books, 2008, with Larissa Lai), and undercurrent (Nightwood 2015). Wong co-authored the map-length poem beholden: a poem as long as the river, with Fred Wah for Talonbooks in 2018. In 2016 she co-edited Downstream: Reimagining Water, a collection of work on the theme of water, with Dorothy Christian for the Environmental Humanities series with WLU Press.