Canada Seminar
Date and Time
Location
"From Urban Renewal to Negro Removal to Vancouverism: Hogan's Alley and the Legacy of the Black Community of Vancouver's East End"
Speaker:
Wayde Compton, Author.
Contact:
Helen Clayton
canada@wcfia.harvard.edu
(617) 495-3671
Chair:
George Elliott Clarke, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program. E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto.
Wayde Compton is the author of two books of poetry, 49th Parallel Psalm (1999) and Performance Bond (2004), the former of which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. He also edited the anthology Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001). In 2010, his book, After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region, was nominated for a City of Vancouver Book Award. In 2002, he co-founded the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to researching and publicizing Vancouver's black history. He is the director of the Writer's Studio and the Southbank Writer's Program at Simon Fraser University Continuing Studies.