April 20: Luciana Erregue-Sacchi's Chapbook Launch

Join us for our first chapbook launch at WORD*LAB! Luciana Erregue-Sacchi will launch her debut bilingual poetry chapbook, Of Mothers and Madonnas.

✨Thurs. April 20 at 7:30pm✨
CO*LAB – 9641 102A Ave, Edmonton
Open mic before Luciana Erregue-Sacchi's feature
Pay-What-You-Can at the door; Suggested Payment $10
Co-presented by Edmonton Poetry Festival, The Polyglot, and CO*LAB

Luciana Erregue-Sacchi is an Argentinian-Canadian art historian, writer, translator, mentor, and independent publisher. In 2022, her imprint Laberinto Press won the BPAA Emerging Publisher of the Year Award. Luciana’s work has been published in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. She was longlisted for the Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction in 2022. Luciana is a Banff Centre Literary Arts Alumnus. Luciana writes mostly in Spanish and English at the intersection of art and life.

About the chapbook:

“Luciana Erregue-Sacchi’s stunning bilingual chapbook will echo in your mind long after you finish reading it. With captivating precision, these poems invite the viewer-reader into the poet’s ‘own private cinema,’ where haunting childhood memories of the Argentinian dictatorship are montaged with tender ricordi of learning to make tortellini as a young immigrant mother in Canada. Through her ekphrastic bridging of English and Spanish, Erregue-Sacchi calls us to become participants in a transformative dialogue about our ‘rolodex of images’ and ‘broth of languages.’ Of Mothers and Madonnas is a courageous debut chapbook, standing as resistant and proud in Canadian Literature as the Argentinian ceibo flowers that grace its pages.”

—Adriana Oniță, Founder of The Polyglot

Cover design by Gian Marco Visconti

This chapbook is generously funded by the Edmonton Arts Council.