À Québec • Dimanche 16 janvier • Cathédrale Holy Trinity, 31 rue des Jardins

https://lespaf.org/programmation/susan-elmslie-a-quebec/

Please note: Owing to Covid restrictions, there will be no live audience for this event. However, the event will be recorded with video and made available online at a later date.

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Argo Zoom Reading Series: Verse, Prose and Song

with Susan Elmslie, John Kerkhoven, Larissa Andrusyshyn,

Kate Lavut, Harold Hoefle, Matthew Murphy,

Nadine Ltaif, Karen Isabel Ocaña, Matthew Rettino

Please email events@argobookshop.ca for the Zoom link.

Museum of Kindness has just been shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, along with Sina Queyras’ My Ariel and Gillian Sze’s Panicle. It’s an honour to be included in this company. There were so many good poetry books under consideration this year.

Visual Arts Centre Reading Series

I have now finished with final proofs.

I started the book that would become Museum of Kindness in 2006.

“Only embroidery and cancer are slower, / sometimes not even.” (“Poetry,” Museum of Kindness, Brick Books, 2017).

My poetry collection has a new title:

Museum of Kindness is forthcoming with Brick Books in Fall 2017.

I’m happy to report that my second full-length poetry manuscript, tentatively titled The Unnameable Genre, has been accepted for publication by Brick Books, and will be published in Fall 2017.