Current Season
An Evening of Poetry
with Sylvia D. Hamilton and Nanci Lee
The SMU Reading Series welcomes two award-winning local poets for our final event of the fall season.
Sylvia D. Hamilton is a writer, filmmaker and artist whose book Tender ‘chronicle[s] the experience of Black people, especially of Black women, in their quest for self-determination and their desire to live full, complex, unencumbered lives.’
Nanci Lee is a Syrian-Chinese poet and educator whose book Hsin is ‘a booksong of grief and celebration’.
Thursday, November 30, 7 p.m.
Atrium building, Room 101, SMU campus
Brought to you by SMU’s Dept. of English Language and Literature and the Irish Studies Program, with the support of Bookmark and the League of Canadian Poets
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An evening with Michael Crummey and Holly Hogan
Join the award-winning writer and the acclaimed biologist as they launch their new books THE ADVERSARY and
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist
Wednesday, October 25, 7 p.m.
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
Presented by Bookmark, Knopf Canada and Saint Mary’s Reading Series
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‘Poetry as Praxis’
Ed Madden: a reading in conversation with Seán Kennedy
Brought to you by Arts with Impact in collaboration with the SMU Reading Series
Tuesday, October 3rd, 7 p.m.
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
Ed Madden teaches creative writing, LGBTQ studies, and Irish literature at the University of South Carolina, and is Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia. He is the author of many collections of poetry including A pooka in Arkansas (Word Works, 2023).
The Art Gallery’s exhibition Kaleidoscope will be on display.