This event has been canceled.

The Antiman tour is headed to Canada! We are thrilled to be partnering with Glad Day Bookshop, the first queer-focused Canadian bookstore and the oldest queer bookstore worldwide, for this final event. Winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and a 2021 Foreword INDIES Winner, Antiman is a gorgeous mix of the poetry, language, and song that have shaped Mohabir’s experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet. Join us for an evening of poetry, music, and more!

When: October 26 at 7pm EDT
Where: 499 Church St, Toronto, ON M4Y 2C6, Canada

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (2021, Four Way Books, finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award), The Cowherd’s Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His essays can be found in places like the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and he has a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. Currently he is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.