Joy Kogawa & Friends – reading at Chapters on Robson, Saturday Feb 11, 2-4pm

Joy Kogawa, Roy Miki, Daphne Marlatt and Ellen Crowe-Swords are reading
at Chapters Bookstore on 788 Robson Street in Downtown Vancouver.

This event is also sponsored by The Land Conservancy, www.conservancy.bc.ca who are helping to save the Kogawa House from demolition. 

Daphne Marlatt is a disinguished poet and currently writer-in-residence
for Simon Fraser University.  Roy Miki is a long time friend of
Joy, as well as being an English professor at SFU, and a leader in the
Japanese Canadian redress movement.  Ellen Crowe-Swords is also a
writer and healer, and a long time friend of Joy's.  Miki,
Crowe-Swords and Kogawa all grew up in the Japanese Canadian internment
camps, during WW2.