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TAIEN
NG-CHAN
Taien
Ng-Chan is a Montréal writer,
performer and filmmaker whose works span many different
genres. Her poetry and fiction have been published in
numerous anthologies and journals, including Geist, blue
buffalo, Contemporary Verse 2, and The Capilano Review,
and she was twice shortlisted for the CBC Canadian Literary
Awards. Since becoming a winner of the CBC Radio New Voices
Drama Competition, Taien has had three radio plays produced
for CBC Radio One. She has also had drama produced at
the Vancouver Fringe Festival, Brave New Playrites, and
as a staged play reading by Playwrights’ Workshop
Montreal.
As a performer, Taien has appeared on
CKUT Radio (Montreal), CiTR Radio (Vancouver), and at
various venues across Canada, including We and Our Words
Festival (Calgary); and the VoxHunt and Mainlines poetry
series (Montréal). As an editor and producer, Taien
and her partner Joe Ollmann collectively run the website
for Wag Press, which presents videos, animations, and
electronic literature. Taien is Reviews Editor
at Matrix
Magazine. She curated and co-produced a documentary
series of spoken word and music collaborations, with writers
Dana Bath, Lance Blomgren, Victoria Stanton, and musicians
Becky Foon, Gord Allen and Samuel Roy-Bois. These works
were presented on CBC Radio One, and Wag
Press website.
As a filmmaker, Taien explores the visual
elements of poetry and the spoken word. Her film The Red
Ribbon won the Location Michel Trudel Award at Concordia
University for Best Poetic Film, and was screened last
year at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. |
epiphany
the days have been constructed
like cardboard
boxes holding nothing, and i inhabit
the corrugated paper
of waking, eating, sleeping:
all there is.
but tonight i feel myself move
timid within my own skin,
longing to live there.
the yearning of blood to
sing, rushing through veins,
and the clicking together of bones,
as if my soul were settling
back into my body, familiar
as my kitchen, weary
as a traveller saying, yes,
this is my home.
my strong hands lift
the tea kettle
to pour the water
steaming
from Maps of our Bodies:
& the borders we have agree upon
(roadmap  video)
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