Ahava Shira
Department of Language & Literacy Education
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC

alive, i am a poet & it’s my not-so-subtle, necessary fixation with language that calls me to be valued here, investigating the beautiful complexity of a half-life of writing. i am a performer, clown, Respectful Relationships educator, and the author of Womb: Weaving of My Being (butterfly press, 1998). i wonder at/with words and the ecological connections that words open up.