FRIDAY JULY 6TH CATHERINE & KATHLEEN CATHERINE GRAHAM | KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN

CATHERINE GRAHAM’s sixth poetry collection The Celery Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, Buckrider Books) is a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of 2017 and appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List.

KATHLEEN McCRACKEN is a Canadian poet and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry including Blue Light, Bay and College (Penumbra Press, 1991), which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1992, A Geography of Souls (Thistledown Press, 2002), Moonclaves (Exile Editions, 2007) and Tattoo Land (Exile Editions, 2009).A bilingual English/Portuguese edition of her poetry entitled Double Self Portrait with Mirror: New and Selected Poems, and featuring a preface by Medbh McGuckian, was published by the distinguished Brazilian press Editora Ex Machina. Kathleen has lived in Ireland for many years and is currently Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.

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FRIDAY JULY 13TH DAVID HADBAWNIK DANIEL C. REMEIN KATHARINE JAGER DALE SMITH

DAVID HADBAWNIK is a poet, translator, and medieval scholar. His Aeneid Books 1-6 was published by Shearsman Books in 2015. In 2012, he edited Thomas Meyer’s Beowulf (Punctum Books), and in 2011 he co-edited selections from Jack Spicer’s Beowulf for CUNY’s Lost and Found Document Series. He is the editor and publisher of Habenicht Press and the journal kadar koli and a co-editor of eth press, which focuses on creative interactions with medieval texts, and Assistant Professor of English at American University of Kuwait. His latest book, Holy Sonnets to Orpheus and Other Poems, was published by Delete Press in June 2018.

DANIEL C. REMEIN is the author of A Treatise on the Marvelous for Prestigious Museums, recently released by punctum books, and the chapbooks Picket Songs and Pearl. He co-founded the Organism for Poetic Research, in New York, and he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  

KATHARINE JAGER is a poet and a medieval scholar.  She has an MFA in poetry from New York University, where her advisor was Marie Ponsot.  Her poetry has appeared in Found, The gettysburg Review, Commonweal, Canteen, Friends Journal and in the Yale anthology, Before the Door of God, among other places.  Essays on medieval masculinity and poetics have appeared in Medieval Feminist Forum, SoundingOut, and Medieval Perspectives.  She is the editor of Vernacular Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary volume forthcoming with Palgrave’s New Middle Ages series.

DALE SMITH is a poet, critic, and scholar of poetry and rhetorical theory on the faculty of English at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the editor with Robert J. Bertholf of An Open Map: The Robert Duncan / Charles Olson Correspondence and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson. A critical study of poetry and public culture, Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, was published in 2012. His writing has appeared in The Baffler, Best American Poetry 2002, Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Walrus, and elsewhere. A recent book of poetry, Slow Poetry in America, was published by Cuneiform in 2014; other poetry includes American Rambler (2000); The Flood & the Garden (2002); Black Stone (2007); Susquehanna (2008); and most recently Sons (knife | fork | book, 2017). His reviews and essays have appeared in the Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Brick. Born in Dallas, Texas, Smith has resided in Ontario since 2011 with the poet Hoa Nguyen and their children, Keaton and Waylon.

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FRIDAY JULY 20TH ANSTRUTHER PRESS SUMMER CHAPBOOK LAUNCH  JAMES ARTHUR | EVAN JONES | PAOLA FERRANTE | FAWN PARKER

JAMES ARTHUR was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The London Review of Books. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, A Stegner Fellowship, a residency at the Amy Clampitt House, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and a Fulbright Scholarship to Northern Ireland. His debut collection, Charms Against Nature, available from Copper Canyon Press.

PAOLA FERRANTE is a Toronto based writer who majored in creative writing at York University.   Her work has previously appeared in Tart.  Her current projects include writing her first novel, conquering rock walls and making craft beer.

EVAN JONES was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010).

FAWN PARKER is a writer and editor based in Montreal. A graduate of Concordia University’s Honours English and Creative Writing program, Fawn was awarded the Irving Layton Award for Fiction in 2017. She is co-founder of BAD NUDES Magazine and poetry editor at Hybrid Heaven and is the author of Looking Good and Having a Good Time (Metatron, 2015) and Weak Spot (Anstruther, 2018).

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FRIDAY JULY 27TH wQr WHAT QUEER READING SERIES  THOM GILL | ALEXA WINSTANLEY-SMITH | IRINA SADOVINA | BRANDY RYAN | KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI

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