odd sundays

We have enjoyed a wonderful season of odd sundays since we began way back in October. (September, if you count our event during Word Feast. Look for that again next fall.) Our next afternoon, at Corked Wine Bar, 83 Regent St., will be on Sunday, March 4 at 2 PM. Our lineup that day will feature a contrast of poets. Robert Hawkes is a retired professor with years of teaching and writing experience, while Jenna Lyn Albert is a young woman at the outset of her career. Please join with us as we welcome these two poets as our guests. Say hello to Charlotte, get a book draw ticket, add your name to the open mic list and settle in for a marvellous afternoon of poetry … and more.

Jenna Lyn Albert is a recent graduate of the University of New Brunswick’s creative writing program and an editorial assistant at the Fiddlehead. Her poetry has appeared in the Malahat Review, the Puritan, Riddle Fence, the Antigonish Review, and CV2, with poems upcoming in the Feathertale Review. Her debut collection of poetry, Bec & Call, is forthcoming with Nightwood Editions this September.

Robert Hawkes is professor emeritus from UNB. He retired in 1989. Bob has published 15 poetry collections, including a hand-produced small-press chapbook of poetry, A Still More Perfect Clay (poppy press, 2015, Fredericton), and his most recent work, Bishop John Medley: John Fredericton, (catkin press, 2017, Ottawa). Bob was born in Coal Creek, Queens County, NB in 1930, and is married to Peggy (MacLeod) Hawkes. They have three sons, two daughters, and 12 grandchildren.