Roy Miki

Dead Reckoning

Talk and Reading


Sat. Jan. 21- 8 pm
@
Centre A
2 West Hastings

Roy Miki, has been a key figure in the articulation of race and identity politics of the past three decades in Canada and beyond. His activist work has taken many forms, beginning with the Japanese Canadian Redress movement of the 1980s, documented in Justice in Our Time (co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi, Talonbooks 1991) and Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004). He was also the founding editor of two majorVancouver literary journals, Line (1983-89) and its successor West Coast Line; and Chair of the organizing committee for the highly influential Writing Thru Race conference held in Vancouverin 1994. He has published three poetry collections: Saving Face (Turnstone 1991), Random Access File (Red Deer College Press 1995) and Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), which won the Governor General's Award. His critical essays have been collected in Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity Writing and he has edited numerous books, including Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka (Talonbooks 1997), which won the 1997 Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies, and more recently, Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol (Talonbooks 2002).