Friday Special Blend
Friday March 24th, 2023 with Susan Johnston
Versefest Special Edition - Conversations with Justin Million and Manahil Bandukwala

Join Susan for conversations with two talented poets who are each featuring at multiple VERSEFest events this weekend. About Justin: Justin Million is a print and digital media poet, performance artist, founder of the Show and Tell Poetry Series, and co-founder and poetry editor at bird, buried press. His first trade book EJECTA: The Uncollected KEYBOARDS! Poems was published by Ottawa’s Apt. 9 Press in 2020. Million lives and writes in his hometown of Peterborough, Ontario. About Manahil: Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. She works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is Digital Content Editor for Canthius. She is the author of many chapbooks, most recently Orbital Cultivation (Collusion 2021, with Liam Burke) and encounter (Rahila's Ghost Press 2022, with Nimra Bandukwala). She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her debut poetry collection is MONUMENT (Brick Books).