Gender Matters Speaker Series: Poetry Reading
Date
Wednesday March 22, 202312:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Robert Sutherland Hall, room 202Event Category
March 2023 Gender Matters Speaker Series
Poetry Reading from Chlo茅 Savoie-Bernard and Juliane Okot Bitek
Registration not required.
Dr. Chlo茅 Savoie-Bernard is a writer who works various forms: poetry, short story, literary criticism, and translation. As an editor she works at L鈥橦exagone, a publishing house in Montr茅al. She is also developing a practice in performance. She has published several books, most notably Des femmes savantes, (Triptyque, 2016) and most recently Sainte Chlo茅 de l鈥檃mour (Hexagone, 2021). Since September 2022, she is a professor in the Department of French Studies at Queen鈥檚 University.
Juliane Okot Bitek is a poet. Her collection of poetry, 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016) was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Her most recent publication A is for Acholi (Wolsak and Wynn 2022) is a poetry collection that reflects on life as a Black diasporan person in Canada. Juliane lives in Kingston, Canada, to on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people. She is an assistant professor of Black Studies at 成人大片, in Kingston, where she is joint appointed in Gender Studies and English.
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