a
series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work,
prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cancellations, shut-downs and
isolations; a reading series you can enjoy in the safety of your own protected
space,
Noah
Eli Gordon : “Social
Distancing”
Noah Eli Gordon
is the author of a dozen books, including the recent collection Is That the
Sound of a Piano Coming from Several Hoses Down?, which the New York
Times called “absurdist flash fiction, disrupting reality through
juxtaposition.” Find Gordon’s poem and a process note here:
https://www.inknode.com/noaheligordon/social-distancing-2
Arielle
Greenberg :
“‘Made by Maid’ is My Favorite Song by Laura Marling and I Want to Crawl Inside
It and You, Too.”
Arielle Greenberg’s
previous poetry collections are Slice, My Kafka Century and Given.
She’s also the writer of the creative nonfiction book Locally Made Panties,
the transgenre chapbooks Shake Her and Fa(r)ther Down, and
co-author, with Rachel Zucker, of Home/Birth: A Poemic. She has
co-edited three anthologies, including Gurlesque, forthcoming in an
expanded digital edition co-edited with Becca Klaver. Arielle’s poems and
essays have been featured in Best American Poetry, Labor Day: True
Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers and The Racial Imaginary,
among other anthologies. She wrote a column on contemporary poetics for the
American Poetry Review, and edited a series of essays called (K)ink: Writing
While Deviant for The Rumpus. A former tenured professor in poetry at
Columbia College Chicago, she lives with her family in Maine, where she writes,
edits, teaches and works for a creative services agency.
Jean
Marc Ah-Sen :
“Ah-Sen and I”
Jean Marc Ah-Sen
is the Toronto-based author of In the Beggarly Style of Imitation and Grand
Menteur. The National Post has called his work “an inventive escape
from the conventional.” He lives with his wife and two sons.
Fiona
Tinwei Lam :
“Ode to Chopsticks”
Fiona Tinwei Lam
is the author of Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book
Prize), Enter the Chrysanthemum, and a new poetry collection, Odes
& Laments (Caitlin Press, fall 2019).
She also authored the illustrated children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket.
Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in over thirty
anthologies (Canada, Hong Kong, and the US), including The Best of the Best
Canadian Poetry in English (Tenth Anniversary Edition). Her poems have been featured twice on local transit as part of B.C.’s
Poetry in Transit. She is a co-editor of
and contributor to the creative nonfiction anthology, Double Lives: Writing
and Motherhood published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, and also the
editor of The Bright Well, a collection of contemporary Canadian poetry
about facing cancer. She and Jane
Silcott have co-edited the creative nonfiction and poetry anthology, Love Me
True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups & Downs of Marriage. Her
poetry videos have been screened at festivals locally and internationally. She
teaches at Simon Fraser University (Continuing Studies).
Eleonore
Schönmaier :
“Let Us Be,” “Weightless” (from Wavelengths of Your Song) and “What Gets
Blown In” (from Wavelengths of Your Song)
Eleonore
Schönmaier’s
collection Wavelengths of Your Song (McGill-Queen's University Press)
will be published in German translation in September 2020 in time for the
Frankfurt Book Fair (with Canada as the guest country). She is also the author
of Dust Blown Side of the Journey (MQUP) and Treading Fast Rivers
(MQUP). Canadian, Dutch, Scottish,
American and Greek composers have set her poems to music including Emily
Doolittle and Michalis Paraskakis. She has won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the
Earle Birney Prize, and the 2019 National Broadsheet contest, among others. Her
poetry has been included in the League of Canadian Poets and the Academy of
American Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day Brochure, and has been widely
anthologized including in Best Canadian Poetry. eleonoreschonmaier.com