Cassandra Myers

poet. performer. arts educator. registered social worker.

 

South-Asian-Italian, disabled, queer, non-binary, survivor of sexual violence with seven years of performance, arts education, and counselling experience.

 
As featured on
Collection of logos: Short Line Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, Button Poetry, Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Uncommon; You, CBC Listen, The Living Room Community Art Studio

poetry.

I’ve been active as an independent artist since 2015, with over 100k views on my Youtube Videos. I have a National Magazine GOLD Award in Poetry 2021 and am the winner of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in 2018. My poems discuss themes of justice from gender based violence, racism and colonialism, ableism, and homophobia. Concept forward and critical, I spin juicy worlds with my poetics, aiming for safer and more joyous futures.

workshops.

I’ve led workshops for classrooms from kindergarten to post-secondary, for professionals or for corporate team building events. Check out my workshops tab for samples and my educator tab for subsidized classroom opportunities sponsored by my various unions.

Calling all people with bodies! If you have physical pain symptoms, chronic illness, disability, or simply just want to self-author your body-mind's experience with pain, this is a generative writing workshop for you. Using Chinese and South-Asian an
Started another day with tears wondering when my grief will give me a break. Cold really lifts pain’s bridal veil. These photos by @raanaa_yaminah were taken at the Take Root Amongst The Stars Residency at Toronto Islands this October where eve
Long overdue but shout outs to @canthiusmag for publishing my poem ALL MY BOYS after boys such as @israelsosobad and @johndacarpenter and not boys like @paodungao . For all the queer boys I love and have loved and will always love, especially the que
I've been hiding away because I knew there was some kind of knowing I was missing. I had an EMDR session today that told me what I've been knowing to be true. I've been relying on co-dependant relationships, and letting my pain body drive my life. I
New Poem up in Rogue Agent @sun.day.gray this week! Also it’s my birthday! More belated content coming soon :)
@cara.wanderer I’m on the lip of something I promise myself
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Body All Pearls by @cara.wanderer #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity
Thank you endlessly to the @join_ada Future of the Internet Ada Lovelace Festival in Berlin, I had a gorgeous time threading together an audience of over 500 people's stories about the internet and their experience at the conference. We connected the
Back this year @join_ada in Berlin to perform a site specific poem on this years concept The Future of the Internet! Stay tuned to my story for travel updates and footage!
Works in progress
Crimson snakeskin, desi gold, and a night where it poured on me as I danced. Thanks @domoniko for the film. Come to @stacktmarket and check out his shop with @tlisa.lee @loosefade for the best of the best finds
Thanks to @ericauv for capturing my @_emptyweb jacket and @teefergus pants and @lunalilunalilunali band t-shirt @masseyhall after the @charlottedaywilson concert where I watched Toronto ROYALTY @danielcaesar @badbadnotgood and @mustafathepoet all pla
Major thanks to @pen_canada for the finalist mention for the 2022 RBC Pen Canada New Voices Award! This poem is complicated considering the time in my life, but I'm still excited that it exists, that I have this memory across so many platforms.
Wednesday March 30, from 6:00-7:30 EST come to write the unspeakable story with tenderness, on your own terms. As a survivor of sexual and familial violence and a trauma-informed peer support worker, my main lens for seeing the world is through a r
Tomorrow! Tuesday March 29th from 4-5:30pm EST, come write into your madness with me! We will be reading poems by mad authors in this generative workshop, using them as fuel to reassign blame, rename our own diagnosis, and write letters to our body m