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as part of the thirteenth annual VERSeFest poetry festival presents:
The Factory Reading Series Lecture Series; two talks/readings by:
Amy Dennis (Northern ON)
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Natalie Eilbert (Green Bay WI)
lovingly
hosted by rob mclennan
Saturday,
March 25, 2023
1-2pm
at Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. Ottawa (simultaneously streamed online
free!
$15
tickets / check link for info on tickets/passes: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
as
well as for the full schedule of readers and events!
March
18-26, 2023
In
addition to publications in England and France, Amy Dennis' poetry has
appeared in more than twenty Canadian literary publications, including CV2,
Event, Queen's Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. Her poetry has
been nominated for two National Magazine Awards and a Random House Creative
Writing Award. She placed second in the UK’s National Bedford Open Poetry
Competition. While completing her Ph.D in literature, she published THE COMPLEMENT AND ANTAGONIST OF BLACK (OR, THE DEFINITION OF ALL VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS) with above/ground press. In 2022, Mansfield Press published The Sleep Orchard, Dennis' collection of ekphrastic poems in response to the
life and art of Arshile Gorky. Currently, she works as a learning facilitator
and professor.
https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/performer/amydennis
Natalie Eilbert
[pictured] is the author of three poetry collections, Overland (Copper Canyon
Press, forthcoming 5/16/2023), Indictus (Noemi Press 2018), Swan Feast (Bloof Books 2015). A recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts
in poetry, a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of
Creative Writing, and winner of the George Bogin Memorial Award from Poetry
Society of America, Eilbert lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she is a
statewide mental health reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/performer/neilbert
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