Thursday February 2nd, 2pm - 3pm
014 McLaughlin College (Junior Common Room)
Hybrid Event
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and the Department of English are proud to host award-winning Canadian poet, Karen Solie, our 2022-2023 Writer-in-Residence, as she reads from new and selected work. A Q&A will follow.
Karen Solie is the author of five collections of poetry. Her third, Pigeon, won the Griffin Poetry Prize, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Pat Lowther Award. A volume of selected and new poems, The Living Option, was published in the UK in 2013, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award, and her most recent collection, The Caiplie Caves, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. Karen was the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet and Lecturer for the University of California, Berkeley, and she is currently a member of the creative writing Faculty at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.