Dawn Macdonald spoke to CBC Weekend in Whitehorse about her debut book of poetry, NORTHERNY. It's a wonderful conversation.
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Join us for a free virtual reading on April 24: bit.ly/3TMX0Id

#poetry #events #North CBC Books Up Here Magazine

Did ya see it? 😍

Patrick Grace and Courtney Bates-Hardy were included in LGBTQReads National Poetry Month recommended reads!

Link to the full list here. ✨

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#canlit #NationalPoetryMonth #booktwt #queerlit

Courtney Bates-Hardy Radiant Press UAlberta Press

Patrick Grace, managing editor for @plenitudemag, releases DEVIANT, a #queer trajectory of fear, love, grief, and violence among gay men. Get your copy online; 30% off with code iP24.

Vancouver launch April 25: bit.ly/3PgavP8

#poetry #canlit #yvrauthor #canadianpoetry

TOWARD AN ANTI-RACIST POETICS by Wayde Compton is the latest title in our CLC Kreisel Lecture Series. Compton rejects the white universalism of literary production and practice.
Read more on our blog! Available for 30% off with code iP24.
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CLC UAlberta

In THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE, Margaret Christakos holds spaces open for the slipperiness of the heard and unheard and the not-yet heard.
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Virtual reading: bit.ly/3TMX0Id

30% off with code iP24 in April.

Margaret Christakos #ecocriticism #feminisms #lyric

The 2024 Health Humanities Consortium Conference runs April 10 to 13 on the Creighton University Health Sciences Campus. The theme of “Social, Emotional, & Community Health—Humanities Interventions” fits perfectly with these books.
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Shane Neilson Brad Necyk

Join Patrick Grace as he presents his poetry collection DEVIANT in conversation with kitchen mckeown.
Thursday, April 25 from 7 to 9 pm at Cross & Crows, Vancouver.
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#poetry #launch #queer

Albert Braz has a masterful command of the writings of Riel and the literature and archival documents about this figure. With THE RIEL PROBLEM, he adds to his body of publications on Riel.
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ACCUTE BACS #highered #Metis #Riel

THAT AUDIBLE SLIPPAGE invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we interact with the world.
30% off from our website for April, Poetry Month, using code iP24.
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Margaret Christakos Edmonton Poetry Festival #poetry #YYZ

By exploring four case studies—Captain Marvel, Spider-man, Thor, and Deadpool—THE CANCER PLOT discusses Marvel’s often complex depictions of the moral citizen, the normative body, gender roles, and the ideal society.
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#disability #superheroes Prof Deborah Lupton Master of Public Health, PhD

In THE RIEL PROBLEM, Albert Braz explores the tension between historical “fact” and shifting representations of Riel, both scholarly and artistic.
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CACLALS

#literature
#CompLit

What’s it like to live inside someone else’s bucket list?
NORTHERNY articulates the tensions of being from a place that others come to as a destination.
30% off from our website for April, Poetry Month, using code iP24.
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Edmonton Poetry Festival #poetry #North

Literary Editions 2024 takes place Wednesday, April 24, 5 to 6:30 pm. It's virtual, with an Edmonton listening party!

Eventbrite registration link: bit.ly/3TMX0Id
Facebook event link: bit.ly/43NuomC

Part of Poetry Festival, April 21 to 28.

In DEVIANT, Patrick Grace examines queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives, from childhood to adulthood and back again.
Online reading on April 24: bit.ly/4cN9uII
Book: bit.ly/3vvo6Lr

#queerauthor #poetry #canlit #lgbtq #PoetryMonth

Mark your calendars for our spring poetry event: Literary Editions 2024!
Better yet, sign up now to attend in person or online: bit.ly/4cN9uII

#events #poetry #poets Edmonton Poetry Festival Jenna Butler Margaret Christakos Audreys Books Douglas Hildebrand Michelle Lobkowicz

In honour of Poetry Month 2024 and because of our grief regarding continuing global genocides, we talk about Juliane Okot Bitek‘s #poetry collection 100 DAYS, about the Rwandan #genocide . On our blog, we share reviewers’ powerful responses to the book.
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In THE RIEL PROBLEM, Albert Braz explores the paradox of how one country (Canada) can hang someone for high treason (Louis Riel) and later transform that individual into a national hero. bit.ly/3T3V13f
#books
#reading

UofA MLCS
University of Alberta Faculty of Arts

Superhero stories require a villain who can test the hero, who can provide both physical and moral stakes. As Wiebe and Woodman argue in THE CANCER PLOT, cancer serves that role. bit.ly/3RILu0J
#cancer #health New Books Network 📚 Dr. Brian Goldman The Medical Post

Well, that was exciting -- a live announcement of all of the shortlisted authors for the @writersguildab awards! Congratulations to Astrid Blodgett for two nominations (short story & collection) for THIS IS HOW YOU START TO DISAPPEAR.
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#Awards @wereadab

Tomorrow! Patrick Grace's National Poetry Month reading will be heard on Angela's Bookclub.
Tune in to 105.5 HITS FM on April 3 at 8:30 am EST to hear Hollay Ghadery and Angela talking about poets and poetry!
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River Street Writing Blue Heron Books Hollay Ghadery (she/her)