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Monday, February 5, 2018 Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry & Poetics: Day 2 Categories: Other Local Events Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive), 2: Poetics Plus

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Where:
Poetry Collection
420 Capen Hall
UB North Campus
Amherst, NY 14228
Date: April 13, 2018
Time: 2-5:00 p.m.

Please join us for a roundtable, community discussion, and poetry readings that will allow us to reflect and build on Robertson’s lecture. Participating will be two other Canadian feminist poets working on language and cultural politics, particularly around indigeneity: Liz Howard and Shannon Maquire.

Liz Howard’s Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, the first time the prize has been awarded to a debut collection. She is of mixed European and Anishinaabe descent. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario, she now lives in Toronto and assists with research on the aging brain.

Shannon Maquire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. The author of two full-length poetry collections, fur(l) parachute and Myrmurs: An Exploded Sestina, Shannon edited and wrote the critical introduction to Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erin Moure (Wesleyan UP).