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Tact, Distance, Excavation: An Evening with Jason Camlot, Avleen K. Mokha, and Kim Trainor

Thursday, June 11, 2020 18:00to19:30

Jason Camlot is author of four collections of poetry: The Animal Library and Attention All Typewriters, The Debaucher, and most recently, What The World Said. His critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, CanLit Across Media (co-edited with Katherine McLeod), Language Acts (co-edited with Todd Swift) and Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms. Camlot teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.

Avleen K. Mokha holds a B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics from 91社区. She is the 2019 winner of 91社区鈥檚 Peterson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing for "Dream Fragments." Her work has appeared in D茅racin茅 Magazine, Yolk Literary, and Siblini. She edits poetry and prose for Persephone鈥檚 Daughters, a literary magazine devoted to survivors of abuse. At Newsfirst Multimedia in Montreal, her journalism focuses on underreported communities.

Kim Trainor鈥檚聽second book,聽Ledi, was finalist for the 2019 Raymond聽Souster聽Award. Her next book,聽Bluegrass, will appear with Icehouse Press in 2022.聽Her poetry has won the Gustafson Prize, the聽Malahat Review聽Long Poem Prize, and the Great Blue Heron Prize.聽In 2018, she was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Trainor鈥檚 work has appeared in the 2013聽Global Poetry Anthology聽and聽The Best Canadian Poetry in English聽2014.聽She teaches at Douglas College and lives in Vancouver,聽unceded聽homelands of the聽x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m,聽Skwxw煤7mesh, and聽Tsleil-Waututh聽Nations.

To register for this event, please visit:聽/poetrymatters/registration.

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