Poetry reading with Mika Lafond and Bill Robertson

Thistledown Press invites you to join

Mika Lafond & Bill Robertson

Public Reading & Book Launch

Wed, Feb 28

4 PM

Education Faculty Lounge

3rd Floor, Education Building

Mika Lafond will read from her poetry collection nipê wânîn. Mika Lafond is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at the U of S. She is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. She took a great interest in creative writing while she attended ITEP at the University of Saskatchewan through a mentorship with author Bill Robertson. Lafond and her cousin Joi Arcand started Kimiwan Zine in 2012 as an outlet for Indigenous visual artists and creative writers. Lafond has worked in education for ten years, has written resources for teachers, and began teaching at the U of S in 2015. Her writing is influenced by her love for her culture, language, and the importance of education. This is her first book. Lafond lives in Saskatoon.

Bill Robertson will read from his poetry collection, Decoys. William Robertson is a poet, university English instructor at the U of S, freelance writer, reviewer, and broadcaster. He has published five collections of poems, and the biography, k.d. lang: Carrying the Torch (1993). He was on the editorial board of the NeWest Review for ten years. He has also reviewed plays, books, and musical events for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix, to which he has contributed since 1979, and he reviewed plays and concerts for CBC Saskatchewan for fifteen years. He was also a regular panelist on the national CBC’s Talking Books program for all of its eleven-year tenure.