Join us tonight at 7 p.m. to celebrate new titles from Signal Poetry (an imprint of Montreal's Véhicule Press)!
Expect readings from Chad Campbell (Laws & Locks) and Talya Rubin
(Leaving the Island), as well as from Chris Chambers, whose Thrillows & Despairos is published by Wolsak & Wynn. The
evening will also be a tribute to late poet Elise Partridge
(1958-2015).
The following readers will read one Partridge poem each: Asa Boxer, Stephanie Bolster, Susan Elmslie, Robyn Sarah, Sarah Venart, and Susan Gillis.
Featured poets:
A finalist for the 2013
Malahat Long Poem Prize, Chad Campbell’s poetry has appeared in
Maisonneuve and Arc, among other magazines. Originally from Toronto, he
is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives and teaches in
Iowa.
Poet, playwright and theatre creator/performer, Talya Rubin’s poetry has garnered
the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. In 2011 she was
short-listed for the Winston Collins/Descant prize for Best Canadian
poem and was a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. She
lives in Montreal with her husband and son.
Chris Chambers is
the author of Lake Where No One Swims and Wild Mouse (with Derek
McCormack), which was nominated for the Toronto Book Award. These poems
have appeared in Taddle Creek, Jacket, This Magazine, The Literary
Review of Canada and were awarded the K. M. Hunter Artist Award.
Elise Partridge's Fielder's Choice was shortlisted for the Gerald
Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada; her Chameleon
Hours was a finalist for the BC Book Prize, won the Canadian Authors
Association Poetry Award, and was featured in the Washington Post
"Poet's Choice" column. Her work has been anthologized in Canada, the
U.S., Ireland, and the U.K., and has appeared in Arc, Poetry, The
Walrus, The New Yorker, The Fiddlehead, Slate, PN Review, Poetry Ireland
Review, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and The New Republic.