Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series with Cornel Bogle, Lisa Richter, Salena Wiener

Please join SFU English and Poetry in Canada for a poetry reading featuring Professor Cornel Bogle, Lisa Richter, and Salena Wiener.

Details:

Date/Time: Friday, April 24th (Doors 6:30 PM; Event: 7-9 PM)

Location: SFU Belzberg Library at Harbour Centre campus

This is a free event, no RSVP required.

Bios

Cornel Bogle engages Caribbean archives and diasporic memory through erasure, found, and lyric poetry. Their work has been published in literary platforms such as “brick”, “Arc Poetry Magazine”, and “Pree: Caribbean Writing”, and has been presented in readings across Canada and the Caribbean.

At SFU, they teach in areas such as Black and Caribbean literatures, decolonial literary studies, diaspora, transnationalism, and creative writing, guiding students to explore how storytelling travels across borders, histories, and communities. Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, they earned their BA at the University of the West Indies, and both their MA and PhD at the University of Alberta, joining SFU in 2023.

Lisa Richter is a Toronto-based poet, writer, and educator. She is the author of two books of poetry, “Closer to Where We Began” and “Nautilus and Bone”, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, the National Jewish Book Award (U.S.), and the Robert Kroetsch Award. Her work has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, a National Magazine Award finalist, and appeared in “Best Canadian Poetry”, “The Fiddlehead”, “The Malahat Review”, and “The New Quarterly”, among other places. She holds an MFA from the University of Guelph and teaches at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Her third book, “Sublunary”, is forthcoming with University of Alberta Press in March 2026.

Salena Wiener is a poet and PhD student in English Literature at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include British Romantic women’s writing, print and manuscript culture, digital humanities, and ecopoetics. She has worked as a Research Assistant for SpokenWeb and the Women’s Print History Project. Her critical and creative work appears in “Honey & Lime Lit Magazine”, “Peculiars Magazine”, “Montreal Review of Books”, “Digital Studies”, and elsewhere. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, “bodies like gardens” (Cactus Press 2023) and “Cities of Delusions” (Anstruther Press 2026).

Venue Accessibility

This in-person event takes place at the SFU’s Harbour Centre campus. It is easily accessible by transit and near SkyTrain. The campus is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible washrooms. Gender neutral washrooms are also available.