Beyond Possibility: Literary Readings Celebrating Room 46.2 Ley Line

Join Room Mag on Zoom to celebrate the launch of issue 46.2 with literary readings on decay, transformation, & crossroads on Thursday, July 13th at 6pm PST.

“When you ask people to prod at the cracks, the ley lines of life, they find pieces of hurt that have been hidden, growing pains, loam that has absorbed destruction and fed new creation. But what’s buried remains, to dig up again and again, unfinished in its work.” —Geffen Semach

Come explore decay, transformation, & crossroads with Room editors and contributors at the launch of issue 46.2 Ley Line. Lead Editor Geffen Semach and Publisher Nara Monteiro bring you a night of powerful, raw readings featuring Sydney Hegele, Lisa Bird-Wilson, and more writers from the issue.

This event will be hosted from the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are thankful to be living, creating, and gathering on this land. We encourage you to learn more about the land you are on at native-land.ca.

Readers

Lisa Bird-Wilson is a Saskatchewan Métis and Cree writer whose work appears in literary magazines, newspapers, and anthologies across Canada. Her most recent book, Probably Ruby (2021), is published internationally and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, for the Amazon First Novel Award, and won two Saskatchewan Book Awards including Book of the Year. Lisa is the past prose editor for Grain magazine as well as a founding member and chair of the Saskatchewan Aboriginal Writers Circle Inc (SAWCI)/ Ânskohk Indigenous Literature Festival. She lives in Saskatoon.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion is a keeper of ancestral medicine through writing poetry, teaching, practicing energy healing, and creating ceremony. As a trans, Toisanese poet, he writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken so we can feel and heal. As a healer, he is a certified reiki practitioner who helps clients move through transition and transformation. River also facilitates creative writing workshops, where participants connect with their own inner and collective power. A Tin House Resident, Lambda Literary Fellow, and Kundiman Fellow, River’s work has been nominated for Best of the Net and is published in Best New Poets, Bellevue Literary Review, Asian American Journal of Psychology, and elsewhere. He has a forthcoming chapbook, remembering your light, on ancestral connection, self-remembrance, and honoring matriarchs available for pre-order.

Sydney Hegele is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021), winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, and others. Their novel Bird Suit is forthcoming with Invisible Publishing in Spring 2024, and their essay collection Bad Kids is forthcoming with Invisible in Fall 2025. They live with their husband and French Bulldog on Treaty 13 Land (Toronto, Canada).