Rachel Rose Book Launch!

Come join us for an evening with Vancouver’s Poet Laureate, Rachel Rose!  She will be launching her new book, The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops, and discussing her

“Recently a fellow at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, Rachel Rose has won awards for her poetry, her fiction, and her non-fiction, including a 2014 and 2016 Pushcart Prize. She is the Poet Laureate of Vancouver for 2014-2017, and is editing an anthology on food and writing that is also a fundraiser for refugee and low-income families. She has published work in journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., New Zealand and Japan, including Poetry, The Rumpus, Guernica, The Malahat Review and The Best American Poetry. A chapbook, Thirteen Ways of Looking at CanLit, (BookThug) and her fourth poetry collection, Marry & Burn (Harbour) were both published in 2015.