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McGill’s Poetry Matters Series: Thursday 29 April 4-5pm

 

In a brief talk about the notebook, time travel,and feminist poetics, MacEachern

engages in arhizomatic re-reading of the modernist andcontemporary genealogies inspiring her debutpoetry collection. A Number of Stunning Attacks (Invisible Press, March 2021), unfolds like a series of dreams, prompting readers to ask – Which cityis this? Which woman is this? Which reader am I?

Jessi MacEachern is Assistant Professor in theDepartment of English at Concordia University inMontréal. Her writing on the contemporaryfeminist poetics of Lisa Robertson, Erín Moure,and Rachel Zolf has appeared in Studies inCanadian Literature/Études en littératurecanadienne and CanLit Across Media. Herpoetry has been published in Poetry Is Dead,Vallum, MuseMedusa, Canthius, PRISM, andCV2.

For the Zoom link, please send a request to Poetry Matters at:

www.mcgill.ca/poetrymatters/contact-us

Making Strange: A Reading and Conversation with Phillip Crymble and Sarah Wolfson (McGill’s Poetry Matters)

 

A poetry event by McGill University’s Poetry Matters!

Making Strange:
A reading and conversation with Phillip Crymble and Sarah Wolfson
Thursday, March 11, 4-5pm EST

For registration, please send a message to Poetry Matters – “Contact Us”: https://www.mcgill.ca/poetrymatters/contact-us

Phillip Crymble is a physically disabled writer and scholar living in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A poetry editor at The Fiddlehead, he received his MFA from the University of Michigan. His poetry has appeared in The Literary Review of Canada, The Forward Book of Poetry, The Malahat Review, The Montreal Prize Anthology, Poetry Ireland Review, and elsewhere. Not Even Laughter, his first full-length collection, was a finalist for both the J.M. Abraham Prize and the New Brunswick Book Award. In 2016 he was awarded The Puritan’s annual Thomas Morton Poetry Prize, and in 2017 he was voted the Reader’s Choice Award winner in Arc Poetry’s poem of the Year contest.

Sarah Wolfson is author of A Common Name for Everything, which received the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Her poems have appeared and are forthcoming in Canadian and American journals including The WalrusThe FiddleheadTriQuarterly, CV2Michigan Quarterly Review, and PRISM international. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received notable mention in Best Canadian Poetry. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches at McGill University.

 

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