Vancouver Poetry House

Cynthia keeps reinventing herself. In previous lives, she’s been a mascot, a theater critic, a stagehand, an event planner, a college admission counselor, a beer slinger, a credit service representative, a ballet dancer, a roller girl and an executive director. Currently, she works for a nonprofit that provides services to seafarers, and dreams of the day she can have her own studio to write, paint, craft and make cat trees.

Vancouver poetry house presents feature poet, Ayda Born in Iran, raised in Vancouver, Ayda's work deals with the bicultural experience and pays homage to the struggles faced by her immigrant parents, as well as exploring and critiquing topics such as gender dynamics, sex, religion, existentialism, and mental illness through the … Continued