My research focuses on literary audio, the literary event, book history, and women’s labour within poetry communities in Canada. My current research projects include a biography of Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt, which understands migration to be central to Marlatt’s lived experience and her poetics. My second research project is a case study of the role of epic poetry in Finnish women’s migrant and diasporic communities in Northern Ontario. The latter study considers the central role of poetry and poetry reading practices in sustaining language and culture amongst Finnish migrant communities from mid-century to present.