odd sundays

Sunday, March 19, at Corked Wine Bar, 83 Regent St. for an afternoon of readings by our guests followed by the open mic set. Join us at 2 P.M. and greet your friends. Say hello to Charlotte behind the bar, get a book draw ticket and have a seat. Our guests for this afternoon are Christine Cornell and Matt Robinson.

Matt Robinson lives in Halifax, NS with his family. Some Nights It’s Entertainment; Some Other Nights Just Work, his fifth collection of poems, was released by Gaspereau Press in Fall 2016. Other publications include the chapbook a fist made and then un-made (Gaspereau, 2013), which was short-listed for the bpNichol Award, as well as Against the Hard Angle (ECW, 2010), no cage contains a stare that well (ECW, 2005), and A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking (Insomniac, 2000). He’s won the Petra Kenney Prize and The Malahat Review Long Poem Award and been shortlisted for things like the Gerald Lampert Award and the ReLit Award. He lived in Fredericton from 1998-2007 and worked as a poetry editor at The Fiddlehead during that time. He has a new chapbook, The Telephone Game, coming out with Baseline Press in 2017.

Christine Cornell teaches English and Great Books in Fredericton, NB. She has published nonfiction on Shakespeare, Tolkien, and Le Guin. She writes horror, fantasy, and science fiction short stories, including a story in the anthology Blood and Water edited by Hayden Trenholm (Aurora Award for Best Related Work).