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Celeste Nazeli Snowber will share from her recent book of poetry, The Marrow of Longing published by HARP Press in 2021:
https://www.harppublishing.ca/books/the-marrow-of-longing/
A descendent of Armenian genocide survivors, Celeste Nazeli Snowber explores the relationship between longing, belonging and identity. She traces intergenerational trauma, her own heartaches and yearnings, motherhood, lessons from kitchen conversations and Armenian food to uncover universal themes.
In doing so, she leads readers to discover what has shaped their own lives. Celeste is particularly interested in excavating fragments of ancestral memory—“Fragments can hold a world,” she says, and the poetic process breaks open insight and wisdom. Celeste will explore how writing poetry and dance can be a way of inquiry into one’s story, providing a fertile space for finding a voice and how the arts can be a space for wholeness.
Bio
Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD is a dancer, poet, writer, award-winning educator who is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She has published and performed widely and her books include Embodied Inquiry and three collections of poetry. Her latest book of
poetry, The Marrow of Longing explores her Armenian identity. Celeste creates site-specific performances and can be found dancing between land and sea and at www.celestesnowber.com
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