Perpetual Astonishment: A Reading for the Equinox
Join Elliott Gish, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Clare Goulet, and Margo Wheaton for a celebration of the dawn of spring with poetry and prose.
Elliott Gish is a writer and librarian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work has appeared in the Dalhousie Review, Grain Magazine, The New Quarterly, and many others. Her debut novel, Grey Dog, was published by ECW Press in 2024. Elliott lives in the North End with her partner and the world’s silliest black cat.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of fourteen books of poetry, essays and scholarly work, most recently The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been (Nimbus) and Following the River: Traces of Red River Women (Wolsak and Wynn). Her poetry has appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, Prairie Fire, Sweetwater, and Juniper, among other publications. Former Halifax Poet Laureate, Lorri is Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University and a mentor in the University of King’s College MFA program in creative nonfiction.
Clare Goulet is a poet, essayist, editor, and instructor and the coordinator of the Writing Center at MSVU. Her interests include interdisciplinary writing, poetics, metaphor and the work of Jan Zwicky, especially applications of her notion of ‘lyric philosophy.’ Graphis scripta / writing lichen (Gaspereau Press, 2024) is her first collection of poems. Her writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Room, Collateral, Poetry Canada Review, and The Dalhousie Review. She lives and teaches in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS.
Margo Wheaton is the author of Rags of Night in Our Mouths (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022) and Wild Green Light (Pottersfield Press, 2021), co-authored with David Adams Richards. Her debut collection, The Unlit Path Behind the House, received the Fred Kerner Award from the Canadian Authors Association and was shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Award, The Gerald Lampert Award, the Fred Cogswell Award, and the Relit Award. Margo is an associate editor at The Dalhousie Review and currently works as a writing consultant, mentor, and workshop facilitator.
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