Poetry Matters Presents: Textures of Hope, Librairies of the Mind

Please join Poetry Matters for a Reading and Workshop with Kasia van Schaik and Sarah Wolfson

Join us for a reading on Wednesday, November 16, 4:00-5:30, featuring work from Kasia van Schaik's new collection We Have Never Lived on Earth (Robert Kroetsch Series, U Alberta P, 2022) and from her poetry. Kasia will be joined in the reading by Montreal-based poet Sarah Wolfson, who teaches at the McGill Writing Centre.

Kasia will also be facilitating a workshop in creative practice on Friday, November 18, 3:30-5:00, which may be of interest to students.

Reading: “Textures of Hope, Libraries of the Mind”

Kasia van Schaik, Sarah Wolfson
Wednesday, November 16, 4-5:30 pm
Birks Building, Senior Common Room

Workshop

with Kasia van Schaik
Friday, November 18, 3:30-5 pm
Birks Building, Senior Common Room

Kasia van Schaik has just launched the linked story collection, We Have Never Lived on Earth (University of Alberta Press, 2022), and the poetry chapbook, Sea Burial Laws According to Country (Desert Pets Press, 2018). Next year, she will begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Concordia University. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Best Canadian Poetry, Canadian Studies in English, and Senses of Cinema.

Sarah Wolfson, who teaches at the McGill Writing Centre, is the author of A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019), awarded the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, TriQuarterly, CV2, Michigan Quarterly Review, and PRISM international. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received a notable mention in Best Canadian Poetry.

To register for the events, please complete the “Contact Us” form on the Poetry Matters website.

We look forward to seeing you there!