Poetry Reading: Tattered Outlaws

Tattered Outlaws: Two Poets

Wednesday, November 4 at 4 p.m. in Arts 217

Poets Carolyn Smart and Jennifer Londry will read from their new poetry collections, respectively, Careen and Tatterdemalion, as part of the MFA in Writing's Po-Vember poetry series.

Jennifer Londry is the author of two previous books of poetry: Life and Death in Cheap Motels, which was adapted for stage, and After the Words, which was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. She is also a contributor to the anthologies: A Crystal through which Love Passes, Glosas for P.K. Page (Buschek Books, 2013), Where the nights Are twice As long, Love Letters of Canadian Poets (Goose Lane Editions, 2015), and has work forthcoming in the Alzheimer’s anthology, A Rewording Life, editor Diane Schoemperlen, creator Sheryl Gordon. Currently Jen is collaborating with the documentary filmmaker Sarah Turnbull at the Carleton School of Journalism and Communications to produce a mental health video.

Carolyn Smart is the author of Swimmers in Oblivion, Power Sources, Stoning the Moon, The Way to Come Home and Hooked: seven poems. Her memoir At the End of the Day was published by Penumbra Press in 2001, and an excerpt won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. She has taught poetry at the Banff Centre and participated online for Writers in Electronic Residence. She is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, poetry editor for the MacLennan Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press, and since 1989 has been Professor of Creative Writing at Queen’s University. Hooked: seven poems has become a performance piece, featured at the Edinburgh and Seattle Fringe Festivals in 2013 and at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2015.

For more information, contact Jeanette Lynes: (306) 966-2781, jeanette.lynes@usask.ca
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