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UNMET: stephanie roberts at the Halifax Public Library

May 18 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Come out for an afternoon of poetry with stephanie roberts, who will be reading from her new poetry collection UNMET! Local poet Annick MacAskill will join the event. Books will be available for sale and signing by King’s Co-op.

The event will take place at the Halifax Central Library on Sunday, May 18 at 2PM.

More details here.

Get a copy of UNMET here!

ABOUT UNMET

This is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus.

Leaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen, UNMET explores frustration, justice, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx, Canadian, immigrant, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality, respectability politics, intimate partner violence, and ecological crisis, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future.

ABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS

stephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies, in print and online, throughout Canada, the US, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada, Panama, and the US, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.

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May 18
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Website:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/67f95d052b0fb15d9faf3ee3

Venue

Halifax Public Library
5440 Spring Garden Rd
Halifax, NS B3J 1E9 Canada
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Details

Date:
May 18
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Event Category:
Event Tags:
, , , ,
Website:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/67f95d052b0fb15d9faf3ee3

Venue

Halifax Public Library
5440 Spring Garden Rd
Halifax, NS B3J 1E9 Canada
+ Google Map