Events Schedule

The River City Lecture, Sponsored by Alice Major.

Poetry translates experience into writing that often helps us navigate compromised categories of belonging and home. As poets, our perceptions of the world departs from and involves our use of language—and depends on the social for meanings to cohere. Poetry offers many reminders to ourselves, that to use language to create is always an act of transgression—less about a strict crossing of decided borders than an act that puts us imminently always in relation to someone else, in their own place, with their own ways of seeing and being and moving through the world. We are as poets always in search of marking our encounters by shaping language towards making something concrete of the mysteries that surround us. Poetry is a means of entering abstract categories in order to turn out forms and shapes for our lives beyond the mere immediacy of what is legible. Poets, and perhaps all writers, invite wonder into these attempts, to be sure, offering room for multiplicity and other modes of homing. In poetry where we are alive through the porosity of voice, we seek new legibilities for the homeward work of language. Our way of being in the world happens in the accumulation of small acts of creation that move us beyond paltry romanticisms of home.

Venue

The Matrix Hotel

10640 100 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T5J 3N8 Canada

Every year the Poetry Festival and the CAA join forces to bring you one of the country’s leading poets. This year we are overjoyed to welcome Jane Munro – 2015 Griffin Award winner – to Edmonton for a special lecture that looks toward our poetic futures! Where we thought we were living is changing. Our eyes go to the horizon: how will we be ourselves in the future? Don’t miss this chance to hear from the 2015 Griffin Award Winner and author of six poetry collections.

Presented in partnership with the Canadian Authors Association.

Note: This event is FREE for members of the Edmonton Poetry Festival or the Canadian Authors Association. Non-members admission is $10 at the door.

 

Venue

St John's Institute

11024 82 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T6G 0T2 Canada