Sunday, February 18, 2018 Poetry Reading: Mike Boughn and Garry Thomas Morse Categories: Other Local Events Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

Where:
The Second Reader Bookshop
1421 Hertel Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14216
Date: March 16, 2018
Time: 7-9:00 p.m.

Garry Thomas Morse is a two-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award for his poetry collections, Discovery Passages and Prairie Harbour, and a two-time nominee for the ReLit Award for his speculative fiction novels, Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus and Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour. Though a resident of Winnipeg, Morse is currently living at Massey College and serving as the Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto. His new book of poetry is Safety Sand.

Michael Boughn worked in the Teamsters –and metal stamping factories for nearly 15 years before earning a PhD in 1986 after studying with poets John Clarke and Robert Creeley. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including 22 Skidoo / SubTractions, Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1 Illus. Ed., and City – a Poem from the End of the World. Cosmographia – a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic was short listed for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 2011, prompting a reviewer in the Globe and Mail to describe him as “an obscure veteran poet with a history of being overlooked.” He has also published essays on film, writing, architecture, and music, and, with Victor Coleman, edited Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book. His most recent book of poetry is Hermetic Divagations (Swimmers Group, 2017)