59. Staying Inspired w/ Tara Borin

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 10:32 p.m.

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Tara Borin discusses their debut poetry collection, The Pit. Andrew asks Tara where to find inspiration. What a joy!

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Tara Borin is a queer, nonbinary settler poet living and writing in  the traditional territory of the Tr\\u2019ond\\xebk Hw\\xebch\\u2019in, Dawson City, Yukon.  Their debut full-length poetry collection, The Pit, is available with Nightwood Editions. Tara\\u2019s work has also been anthologized in Best  New Poets In Canada 2018 (Quattro Books) and in Resistance: Righteous  Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press).

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Tara\\u2019s poems have been published in Prism International, Prairie Fire, The LaHave Review, Red Alder Review, and elsewhere online and in print. They completed The Writer\\u2019s Studio Online with Simon Fraser University in 2019.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He has published two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845  Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021).  Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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