McGill University
845 Sherbrooke St W,
Montreal QC H3A 0G4
Canada
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Claire Wahmanholm at McGill University for a reading and award ceremony as well as a workshop.
Workshop will run from 10-12 PM at Peterson Hall, Room 116. The workshop will focus on the art of abecedarians and is presented by the Poetry Matters initiative.
Ceremony will begin at 4:00 PM in the Arts Building, Room 160. The ceremony will be hosted by the Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Claire Wahmanholm
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Meltwater, Redmouth, and Wilder, which won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award.
A haunting collection that inhabits a disquieting future where fear is the governing body, “the organ and the tissue / and the cell, the membrane and the organelle.”