Archive for September, 2019

 

whatever happened to?

whatever happened happened.
whatever happened happened
in no time

no time to dab
blot
press
twist
& re

cover

mouth whatever
hands whatever
fingers busy
doing other
things

 

 

Chantal Gibson (www.chantalgibson.com) is an artist-educator living in Vancouver. Her debut book of poetry How She Read (Caitlin 2019) is a decolonizing effort that confronts historic representations of Black womanhood and Otherness in the Canadian cultural imagination. An award-winning instructor, she teaches writing and visual communication in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University.

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