Author Reading: "How I Bend Into More" by Tea Gerbeza

Come on down to the Prince Albert library gallery for an Author Reading of "How I bend Into More" by Tea Gerbeza.

Monday, May 12th 7:00pm- John M. Cuělenaĕre Public Library
The reading will take place in the the library's local art gallery.

Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis,
How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the
face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain,
consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body
both visually and linguistically, creating a
multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of
embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled
shapes represent the poet's body on the page; these
shapes weave between lines of verse and with them
the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend
Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that
challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and
centers "the double architecture / of (metamorphosis (."

Tea Gerbeza is a queer disabled neurodivergent writer
and multimedia artist from Treaty 4 Territory. She has an
MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and
an MA in English & Creative Writing from the University
of Regina. How I Bend Into More is her first book.

You may also like the following events from John M. Cuelenaere Public Library:

• This Wednesday, 14th May, 02:00 pm, Love Hurts - - Free Movie Matinee in Prince Albert
• This Wednesday, 14th May, 06:00 pm, Love Hurts - - Free Evening Movie in Prince Albert
• Next Wednesday, 21st May, 02:00 pm, The Apprentice - Free Movie Matinee in Prince Albert

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