Fluid Vessels Reading Series - Event 2
Join the Montreal International Poetry Prize and McGill's Department of English for the second event of the reading series Fluid Vessels.
Fluid Vessels, the annual reading series of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, returns in winter/spring 2023 to build international connections around the art of the poem. Over the course of two online events, six finalists for the 2022 prize will present their work to a live audience. Join us for free to celebrate their achievement and enjoy an illuminating evening of poetry! Each session will include time for responses and questions from the audience, giving you the opportunity to join the conversation about the creation, form and impact of poetry in the world today.
Hosted by Jeremy Desjarlais
April 22, online
2pm Montreal, 7pm London, UK, 11am California/BC
About the authors
Lynne Burnett lives on Vancouver Island. She has been widely published in journals and anthologies in Canada and the USA. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, she won the 2016 Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit PP and the 2019 Jack Grapes PP. Her chapbook “Irresistible” was published in 2018 by Finishing Line Press. www.lynneburnett.ca
Miranda Pearson is the author of five books of poetry: Rail, The Fire Extinguisher, Harbour, The Aviary and Prime. The Aviary won the Alfred G.Bailey prize, Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher were finalists for the BC Book Prize. Since completing a Masters of Fine Art at the University of British Columbia, where she was the Poetry Editor for Prism International, Miranda has taught at UBC and Simon Fraser University. Miranda currently lives between the UK and Vancouver and is working on a new poetry collection, and is an editor at Taproot Press. Her most recent book is Rail, published in October 2019 by McGill-Queen's University Press. www.mirandapearsonpoetry.com
Khaty Xiong is a Hmong American poet from Fresno, California. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015). Xiong’s honors include a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, residencies at MacDowell, a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and two Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council. Currently, she is working on her second poetry collection.