as part of the seventh
annual VERSeFest poetry festival presents:
The Factory Reading
Series Lecture Series, two talks and readings by:
Marilyn Irwin (Ottawa)Faizal Deen (Ottawa)
lovingly hosted by rob
mclennan
Saturday, March 25,
2017
FREE ADMISSION!
1pm at Knox
Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. Ottawa
check
the VERSeFest link for the full schedule of events!
March
21-26, 2017
Shortlisted
for the 2016 bpNichol Award, a 2014 Tree Reading Series Hot Ottawa Voice, and
winner of the 2013 Diana Brebner Prize, Marilyn Irwin’s work has been published by
above/ground press, Apt. 9 Press, Arc
Magazine, and Matrix Magazine,
among others. Her seventh chapbook, waving
usufruct; a collaboration with David Emery and Samantha Lapierre, was
published by The Steel Chisel last
year, and she will be launching a brand new chapbook with above/ground press: north. She runs shreeking violet press
in Ottawa. She'll be talking about the crosshairs of mental health and
literature making.
Faizal Deen Forrester is a doctoral student
in the Department of English Language & Literature at Carleton University.
As a contributor to the Migration and Diaspora Studies initiative at Carleton,
Faizal seeks to address the ways in which the cultural production of Caribbean
populations in Canada—in particular, the work of poets—encourages us to rethink
existing notions of diasporic identity. Faizal has studied at Queen’s
University at Kingston, Ontario, the University of the West Indies (Mona
Campus), McGill University; and, most recently, received an MA in Creative
Writing from the University of Windsor. As Faizal
Deen, he maintains—along with his scholarly endeavours—an acclaimed poetry
practice, beginning in 2000 with the publication of Land Without Chocolate, a Memoir, Guyana’s first LGBTQI poetry
collection. His most recent collection, The Greatest Films, which, in part, addresses Caribbean queer Islamic
identities in the post-9/11 era, was published by Mawenzi House.
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