Canadian poet to read from her work at ASU

<p>She received the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and she is the founding editor of the international poetry journal <em>Studio</em>.</p><separator></separator><p>Rishma Dunlop, visiting Canadian Fulbright scholar at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, will give a free reading from her work at 7:30 p.m., Jan. 28 at the University Club on ASU’s Tempe campus.</p><separator></separator><p>Dunlop also writes plays, essays and fiction. Her books of poetry include “Metropolis,” “Reading Like a Girl” and “The Body of My Garden.” Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including<em> Blackbird, Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain,</em> and <em>The Comstock Review</em>. Her radio drama, “The Raj Kumari’s Lullaby,” was commissioned and produced by CBC Radio in 2005.</p><separator></separator><p>Dunlop is a professor in the faculty of education and the Department of English at York University, Toronto, where she is coordinator of the Creative Writing Program.</p><separator></separator><p>Her teaching and research interests are multidisciplinary and include post-structural and feminist theory; contemporary fiction and poetry; creative nonfiction; English and world literatures; Canadian literature; literary translation; postcolonial and diasporic literatures; literature of witness; creative writing; cultural studies; aesthetics; fine arts practices and cultural production; women and literature; environmental writing; and documentary photography.</p><separator></separator><p>&nbsp;</p>