Zoe Imani Sharpe
Zoe Imani Sharpe is a poet working with collaborative language practices and reciprocal forms of education, including reading groups and interdisciplinary projects. Sharpe was a finalist for the 2020 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers - Poetry. She has contributed poetry and exhibition texts to various galleries and magazines. She was the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at Gallery TPW and lives in Tkaronto (Toronto).
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2020 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Poetry finalist Zoe Imani Sharpe
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"In this work the page is spare, yet a powerful voice emerges in language that is assured, mellifluous, and poetically unique. Sharpe engenders a subtle silence that resists over-narration and commodification. Here is an “ironing out” of specific histories and ways of being that force a re-negotiation with the present. In a Canadian poetic context where certain histories are still overlooked, this work is urgent and entirely its own." — 2020 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Poetry Jury (Klara du Plessis, Benjamin Hertwig, and Canisia Lubrin)Works Recognized by WT