Join Tea Gerbeza for the Winnipeg launch of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press), featuring readings from Gerbeza and special guest Sarah Ens followed by a conversation about the lyric long poem and memory. 

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream. This is an in-person event on Saturday Apr 12 2025 at 7:00 pm, at Winnipeg’s McNally Robinson, Grant Park in the Atrium and Streaming on YouTube. Mask friendly.

Based on Tea Gerbeza’s experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza’s grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled shapes represent the poet’s body on the page; these shapes weave between lines of verse and with them the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and centers “the double architecture / of ( metamorphosis (.”

Tea Gerbeza is a queer disabled neurodivergent writer and multimedia artist from Treaty 4 Territory. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in English & Creative Writing from the University of Regina. How I Bend Into More is her first book.

Sarah Ens is a writer, editor, and book publicist based in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). She is the author of The World Is Mostly Sky and Flyway, which won the 2023 ReLit Poetry Award.