When all else fails, poetry fills in our uncertainties with memorable language, helping us find the words needed to both confront systems of oppression and adapt to the unknowns that are always pressing in. And then, of course, in our busy lives, there’s also the effort of joy in small places. In this poetry panel, we will hear three poets reading work that shows us how the mechanics of poetry surprise (“Form is the act of blossoming in unlikely vessels,” writes Marc Perez), challenge (“I hope that there’s a sense of ‘We can be better than this.’ ‘How can we be better than this?’” Nathalie Lim says in an interview with Pancouver), and help us adapt (Tāriq Malik writes “in response to the world in flux around him and of his place in its shadows.”) Please join us for a reading and discussion with these three fabulous poets!