The UNB Poetry Weekend
By Eric Hill • Sep 29th, 2009 • Category: Editorial Notes, Goose Lane Authors, Happenings, In BriefAs the leaves begin to change and the days shorten there is one additional cryptic sign of seasonal change: The UNB Poetry Weekend. Part celebration of the dance of language, part old home week for the few and the brave (and some say deluded). Introductions, discoveries, reconciliations, affirmations and endurance will be on hand.
Among the 40+ readers this weekend included are:
John Barger (Pain Proof Men, Palimpsest Press)
Kevin Connolly (Revolver, Anansi)
Jeffrey Donaldson (Palilalia, McGill-Queen’s University Press)
John Donlan (Spirit Engine, Brick Books)
Katia Grubisic (What If Red Ran Out, Goose Lane)
Anita Lahey (Out to Dry in Cape Breton, Vehicule Press)
Rachel Lebowitz (Hannus, Pedlar Press)
Holly Luhning (Sway, Thistledown Press)
Brent MacLaine (Athena Becomes a Swallow…, Goose Lane)
Christina McRae (Next to Nothing, Wolsak & Wynn)
Al Moritz (The Sentinel, Anansi)
Shane Neilson (Meniscus, Biblioasis)
John Reibetanz (Near Relations, McClelland & Stewart)
matt robinson (no cage contains a stare that well, ECW)
Sue Sinclair (Breaker, Brick Books)
Matthew F. Tierney (The Hayflick Limit, Coach House)
Tammy Armstrong (Take Us Quietly, Goose Lane)
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