Event Info
Madhur Anand, dee Hobsbawn-Smith
The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of wr...
Fri. April 28th 2017 + Add to Calendar
Hillside Coffee and Tea, 1633 Hillside Ave (All Ages)
7:30pm Doors at: 7:00pm
By Donation
Event Description
The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of writers and poets established and not. It is a place where words are most important. A venue in which all manner of poets and writers are welcome; a place for excellence, innovation, collaboration, diverse projects and experiments. The evening begins at 7:30 with an open mic, followed by a featured reader(s). Planet Earth Poetry is located at Hillside Coffee and Tea, 1633 Hillside Ave (across from Bolen Books). Between 7 and 7:15, put your name in the hat to read at open mic.
Madhur Anand (born 1971) is a Canadian poet and professor of ecology and environmental sciences.
Her first collection of poems, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2015 and was nominated for a Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2016. Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines such as the Literary Review of Canada, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque, and The Walrus. Her work also appeared in the anthology The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science. She co-edited the anthology Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry (Your Scrivener Press, 2009).
Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University in 1997 and conducts research on ecological change and sustainability science. She is a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph.
dee hobsbawn-smith’s poetry, essays, fiction and journalism have appeared in newspapers, websites, magazines, anthologies and literary journals in Canada, the USA and Scotland, including Grain, Gastronomica: The Journal of Culture and Food, The Malahat Reiview, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, Vallum, CV2, Freefall and others. In 2015–16, she served as the Saskatoon Public Library’s 35th Writer in Residence. A retired chef and ex-restaurateur, she lives west of Saskatoon and earned her MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan. She has published seven books. Foodshed: An Edible Albert Alphabet (Touchwood, 2012) won three international awards for its unflinching examination of the politics and challenges of small-scale sustainable food production. Her first collection of poetry, Wildness Rushing In (Hagios, 2014) was a finalist for Book of the Year and Best Poetry Collection at the Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was followed by her first short fiction collection, What Can’t Be Undone (Thistledown, 2015.) She was recently part of a contingent of Canadian poets who read at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
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Hillside Coffee and Tea, 1633 Hillside Ave
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