Fluid Vessels - Poetry Reading Series 2022
The 2022 competition of the Montreal International Poetry Prize is open for submissions. (Deadline: 15 May.) Join us throughout the entry period for a series of online readings by the distinguished poets serving on this year’s jury, along with friends, finalists, and the prize judge. Events through the winter and spring will showcase the work of these remarkable voices from the British Isles, India, Nigeria, Australia, Jamaica, the U.S., and Canada. Together they are the ones who will choose the finalists and the winner of the 2022 Montreal Prize. Come and discover the form and flow of their work! Each session will include time for responses and questions from the audience.
On April 19, 5 PM EDT (Montreal), 3 PM CST (Regina), join us for an online reading with poets Liz Howard, Medrie Purdham and Michael Trussler.
Liz Howard’s debut collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos, was published by McClelland and Stewart in June 2021. Howard received an Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. She is of mixed settler and Anishinaabe heritage. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario, she currently lives, writes, and teaches in Toronto. Photo credit: Ralph Kolewe
Medrie Purdham, whose Little Housewolf was published by Véhicule Press (Signal Editions) in 2021, holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and teaches at the University of Regina, Treaty 4. Her work has been published in journals across Canada and anthologized several times in Tightrope Press’s Best Canadian Poetry. She held the City of Regina Writing Award in 2015.
Michael Trussler writes short stories, poetry and creative non-fiction. His work has been published in Canadian and American journals and has been anthologized both domestically and abroad. His short story collection Encounters won the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award in 2006. The Sunday Book, a collection of creative non-fiction essays (Palimpsest) and the poetry collection The History Forest (University of Regina Press) are forthcoming this year. His work engages with the beauty and violence of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, visual art and ecology. He teaches English at the University of Regina.