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Queers Like Me (Book*hug Press, 2023) Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith\u2019s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.<\/span><\/p>\n In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences: teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, and daydreams of confronting your childhood bully.<\/span><\/p>\n Queers Like Me<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is an enveloping book\u2014a meditation on family complexity and a celebration of personal insight.<\/span><\/p>\n (Description Source: Book*hug Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n Michael V. Smith<\/strong> is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel,\u00a0Cumberland,<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca \/ Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver\u2019s Community Hero of the Year Award. A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Smith currently lives in Kelowna, BC.<\/p>\n UBC Library Holdings<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3k7sm6vc<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher \u2013 Book*hug Press<\/a> Paper ISBN: 9781771668507<\/p>\n <\/p>\n UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em><\/p>\n The\u00a0University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/p>\n How to Submit Artwork<\/em><\/p>\n If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO\u2019s educational mission, please email your suggestions to\u00a0classroom.artwork@ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em> began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO\u2019s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.<\/p>\n Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Queers Like Me Poems (Book*hug Press, 2023) EME 2202 Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith\u2019s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life. In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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