Word Feast Poetry BASH

Come join us at York County Cider for readings from a quartet of fabulous poets!

Free and open to the public!

LUCAS CRAWFORD is a poet and scholar who writes about transgender, queer theory, fat bodies, disability, architecture, literature, and pop culture. Lucas’s poetry books include Sideshow Concessions, which won the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and The High Line Scavenger Hunt, which came out this month. By day, Lucas is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. Lucas is from rural Nova Scotia.

JENNA LYN ALBERT is an Acadian poet and graduate of the University of New Brunswick’s Creative Writing program. Her poetry has appeared in The Malahat Review, The Puritan, CV2, The Temz Review, and Riddle Fence. Albert is a member of The Fiddlehead’s editorial board and a reader for Goose Lane Editions’ Icehouse poetry imprint. Her debut collection of poetry, Bec & Call, is forthcoming with Nightwood Editions this fall.

STEVE MCORMOND is the author of Reckon (Brick Books 2018) and three previous collections of poetry. The Good News about Armageddon (Brick Books 2010) appeared on a number of book critics’ Best of 2010 lists and was shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award. His second collection, Primer on the Hereafter (Wolsak and Wynn 2006), was awarded the Atlantic Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Lean Days (Wolsak and Wynn 2004), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he lives in Toronto.

SINA QUEYRAS is the author of the poetry collections, My Ariel, MxT, Expressway and Lemon Hound all from Coach House. Her work has been nominated for a Governor General’s Award, and won The Friends of Poetry Award from Poetry Magazine, The AM Klein Award for Poetry, a Lambda, the Pat Lowther Award, a Pushcart Prize and Gold in the National Magazine Award. Her first novel, Autobiography of Childhood was nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, for Persea Books. She is founding editor of Lemon Hound. She has taught creative writing at Rutgers and Haverford.

Part of Word Feast: Fredericton’s Literary Festival