https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/issue/feed Fragmenting the West Coast 2023-07-24T16:14:03-07:00 Rina Garcia Chua rina_chua@sfu.ca Open Journal Systems <p>This countercartographic project examines how contemporary Asian poets in Canada relate their experiences of migration, culture, and the environment on the West Coast. </p> https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5574 Untitled 2023-06-26T15:15:32-07:00 Chris Tse christophertse@uvic.ca <p>A poem about Whitehorse, Yukon; Chinatown, BC; Vancouver Island, and Kamloops, BC.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5625 Destinations 2023-07-02T20:33:11-07:00 Rina Garcia Chua rina_chua@sfu.ca <p>A poem about Manila, Philippines, and Vancouver and Kelowna, BC, Canada.</p> 2023-07-01T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5575 Excerpts from: All the Time 2023-06-26T15:26:44-07:00 Xiaoxuan Huang xiao.xuan.huang@outlook.com <p>A poem about Kelowna; Vernon; Enderby; Ucluelet, and Shanghai, China.&nbsp;</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Xiaoxuan Huang https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5578 Unsettle 2023-06-26T15:39:04-07:00 Yujie Gao yujie.gao@ubc.ca <p>An image about migration; in Kelowna, BC.&nbsp;</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Gao Yujie https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5232 A Declaration, Love 2023-02-23T20:26:20-08:00 Hari Alluri harimalluri@gmail.com <p>A poem about Vancouver, BC.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Hari Alluri https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5231 braid 2023-02-23T20:21:13-08:00 Onjana Yawnghwe onjanayawn@gmail.com <p>A poem about the mainland of BC.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Onjana Yawnghwe https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5338 case study 2023-05-12T12:52:03-07:00 Hari Alluri harimalluri@gmail.com <p>A poem about the Mainland in BC.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/6147 Islands Along Mount Pleasant 2023-07-24T16:11:35-07:00 Steffi Tad-y steffi.tady@gmail.com <p>A poem about Vancouver, BC in Canada.&nbsp;</p> 2023-07-03T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5628 manggang hilaw 2023-07-02T21:30:34-07:00 Shangrila Plaza splaza@sfu.ca <p>A poem about the Philippines and Canada.</p> 2023-07-02T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Shangrila Plaza https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5259 Missing Asian Girl 2023-03-01T15:01:38-08:00 Lakshmi Gill lakshmigill@hotmail.com <p>A poem about/in Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC.&nbsp;</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Lakshmi Gill https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5235 Mother's Line as Logarithmic Spiral 2023-02-24T12:01:18-08:00 Lakshmi Gill lakshmigill@hotmail.com <p>A poem about Kitsilano, Vancouver and Onay Beach, Samar.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5470 nanay 2023-06-15T14:39:02-07:00 Jessamine Liu jessaminekliu@gmail.com <p>A poem geographically set in Taiwan, the Philippines, and British Columbia.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/6148 Pre-existing Conditions 2023-07-24T16:14:03-07:00 Steffi Tad-y steffi.tady@gmail.com <p>A poem about Vancouver, BC in Canada.&nbsp;</p> 2023-07-03T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5571 the world begins with a suitcase 2023-06-26T15:01:09-07:00 Phebe Ferrer phebe.ferrer@gmail.com <p>A poem about the Philippines, China, UK, and Canada.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5260 Vancouver City Map 2023-03-01T15:06:24-08:00 Onjana Yawnghwe onjanayawn@gmail.com <p>A poem mapping Vancouver, BC.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5573 we were young 2023-06-26T15:12:47-07:00 Phebe Ferrer phebe.ferrer@gmail.com <p>A poem about the Philippines, Canada, and the UK.&nbsp;</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5579 winter portrait 2023-06-26T15:49:28-07:00 Hari Alluri harimalluri@gmail.com <p>A poem about Vancouver, BC.</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5600 beholden 2023-06-27T12:42:27-07:00 Rita Wong rwong@ecuad.ca Fred Wah fwah@mac.com <p>Comprising two lines of poetic text flowing along a 114-foot-long map of the Columbia River, this powerful image-poem by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong presents language yearning to understand the consequences of our hydroelectric manipulation of one of North America’s largest river systems. <br><br><em>beholden: a poem as long as the river</em> stems from the interdisciplinary artistic research project “River Relations: A Beholder’s Share of the Columbia River,” undertaken as a response to the damming and development of the Columbia River in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon, as well as to the upcoming renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty. Authors Fred Wah and Rita Wong spent time exploring various stretches of the river, all the way to its mouth near Astoria, Oregon. They then spent several months creating long poems along the Columbia, each searching for a language that evoked the complexities of our colonial appropriation of it.<em> beholden</em> was then assembled as a page-turning book that reproduces the two long poems as they respond to the meanderings of the river flowing two thousand kilometres through Canada, the United States, and the territories and reserves of Indigenous Peoples. Visual artist Nick Conbere then transferred this winding footprint into a monumental, 114-foot horizontal banner. <br><br><em>beholden: a poem as long as the river</em> “reads” the geographic, historical, political, and social dimensions of the Columbia River, literally and figuratively, proposing two contrasting kinds of attention. As both a stand-alone poem and an accompanying piece to the visual installation exhibited at various galleries, <em>beholden</em> represents a vital contribution to a larger dialogue around the river through visual art, writing, and public engagement.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>https://talonbooks.com/books/beholden</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2023-06-27T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5261 Ancestral Home 2023-03-01T15:16:42-08:00 Lillian Nakamura Maguire lillian@lakelaberge.com <p>A poem in/about/of Vancouver Island, Vancouver, and Japan.&nbsp;</p> 2023-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Lillian Nakamura Maguire https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/fragmentingwestcoast/article/view/5627 Four deaths per mile 2023-07-02T20:37:41-07:00 Rina Garcia Chua rina_chua@sfu.ca <p>A poem about the labour of Chinese immigrants during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.&nbsp;</p> 2023-07-02T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Rina Garcia Chua