Vancitylove: Kinnie Starr To Give Free Poetry Reading At Vancouver Public Library Tonight

She’s best known as a hip-hop and pop songstress, but tonight, Vancouver’s Kinnie Starr will be showing off her talents as a poet.

Starr will read from How I Learned To Run, her first book of poetry and drawings, which is described as “a contemplative look at love, history, sex and the complexities of being part Mohawk in a Canadian family that has yet to come to terms with its indigenous roots.”

Starr has been performing across Canada and around the globe since 1995. She is also the co-founder of Vancouver’s Aboriginal Music Lab, and teaches with Artstarts in schools.

Tonight’s reading is from 7:30-9:00 p.m. at the Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch (350 W Georgia St.), and it’s free.

Or, if you can’t make it to the reading, you can check out poems from How I Learned To Run or order a copy here.

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From the CBC Radio 3 blog