鈥淐anada鈥檚 coolest poet鈥, 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. 鈥97, PhD 鈥04), has received one of the country鈥檚 highest forms of recognition 鈥 election as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Uppal has accomplished a great deal in her 39 years. She has published 10 collections of poetry, two novels, a […]
Scrawled underneath or to one side of the photographs in a new book by artist Daniel Ehrenworth and 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal聽 鈥 Curse. Sleep. (That鈥檚 the Thing About Trouble) 鈥 are bits of an ongoing conversation. Things like: 鈥淧rotect your heels,鈥 printed in capitals under a photo of a backyard with a swing […]
From the 鈥榖urbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91亚色 Circle鈥檚聽popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91亚色 Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
English Professor Priscila Uppal has found a new way to indulge her passion for the written word. She is now a reviewer for Radio Canada International, talking, of course, about all things bookish and Canadian. On various Wednesdays between 11 and 11:30am, including tomorrow, Uppal will discuss what she has been reading lately as part […]
91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal is busily dog-earing one literary journal after another, scratching notes in margins, bending page corners. The smell of ink fills her Toronto home. She is a poet on a quest as the recently announced guest editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English anthology, sifting through thousands of poems聽published in聽2010 […]
The 31st International Festival of Authors (IFOA) has started and several 91亚色 professors and alumni are on the bill. 91亚色 alumnus Jian Ghomeshi (right) (BA 鈥95) of CBC Radio will host and moderate 鈥淐elebrating 40 Years of the Juno Awards鈥, which will launch the new book Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of […]
Sports and poetry aren鈥檛 usually thought of as intertwining, but 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal is almost as much a sports fan as she is a poet. Given that she was the Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CANFund) poet-in-residence聽during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games, it鈥檚 not surprising that her poems have made their way […]
91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. 鈥97, PhD 鈥04) has a thing for dreams, sometimes dreaming fragments of poems. She adores the odd dialogue that can only happen in that surreal state of being. So when artist Daniel Ehrenworth, a former聽fine arts cultural studies聽student at 91亚色, asked her to collaborate with him for his […]
Priscila Uppal, professor of English in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, spoke to Matt Galloway on CBC's Metro Morning March 24 about her work as poet-in-residence during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games. Uppal wrote poems about the competitions and read them to the athletes and their families, which are archived […]
Surreal, absurdist, satirical, playful and yet, at times, deeply serious is how 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal (BA Hons. 鈥97, PhD 鈥04) describes Traumatology, her latest collection of poetry officially launching on Wednesday. A poet and novelist, Uppal will read from Traumatology during the launch on March 24 at 8pm at the Monarch Tavern, 12 […]
Research at 91亚色 is broader than books, journal articles, scientific findings or data sets. In the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, research can result in a piece of poetry that moves the soul. Like the Greek poet Pindar, 91亚色 English Professor Priscila Uppal, an internationally acclaimed poet and novelist, is penning poems for […]