Workshop 4: Word Play that Leads to Poetry
You want to write a poem, but you don’t know how to start. You want to honour a loved one or remember a significant event. In this workshop, we will use words as stepping stones to craft poems.
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italfestMTL, in collaboration with Accenti Magazine, the Federation of Venetian Associations of Quebec and the League of Canadian Poets, invites you to write with Montreal authors Licia Canton and Liana Cusmano.
We all have stories to tell or poems to share. Come explore your creativity in the language of your choice. Come to one or all four beginner-friendly workshops.
Max. 10 participants.
RSVP: [email protected] or 514-329-3254
Casa del Veneto, 7995 Av. Blaise-Pascal, Montréal, QC H1E 5G8
Language(s): English, French, Italian
Materials: paper, pen/pencil, photo
Liana Cusmano
Liana Cusmano (they/them/iel/lu) is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, filmmaker, and arts educator. A three-time Montreal Slam Champion, their novel Catch and Release (2022) was published by Guernica Editions. They are also a two-time finalist for the QWF Spoken Word Prize and winner of the 2024 Society Pages Poetry Contest. Liana Cusmano has led workshops for writers of all ages and levels of experience.
Licia Canton
Licia Canton is the author of The Pink House and Other Stories (2018) and “A Taste of Home: Growing Up Italian in Montreal-North” (2022). She is co-founder of Accenti, director of the documentary Creative Spaces: Queer and Italian Canadian (2021), recipient of the Premio Italia nel mondo (2018). She is featured in TLN’s Invisible Voices: A Spotlight on Italian-Canadian Women Writers. Dr. Canton is past-president of the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers.
