Lunch Poems presents Jami Macarty and Fenn Stewart (In Person)

Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
About this Event

September's Lunch Poems reading features poets Jami Macarty and Fenn Stewart.

Jami Macarty is the author of The Long Now Conditions Permit, winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize and a 2025 University of Nevada Press title, and The Minuses, a Center for Literary Publishing Mountain/West Poetry Series title and winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. Macarty’s four chapbooks include two published by Vallum Chapbook Series in Montreal: in 2024, The Whole Catastrophe, a finalist for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award; in 2017, Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Supported by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the BC Arts Council and the generous editors of magazines such as Arc, Event, Grain, The Malahat Review, Prism International and Vallum, Macarty supports all-genre writers as an independent mentor, editor, reviewer and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the rain coast and the Coast Salish First Nations Peoples.

Photo credit: Vincent K. Wong

Fenn Stewart is the author of three chapbooks and two poetry collections—Better Nature, which was longlisted for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize, and women & roosters. A former editor of The Capilano Review, she continues to serve on the magazine’s editorial board. Stewart holds a PhD in social and political thought, and she teaches literature and writing at Capilano University. She lives with her kids in Vancouver, B.C., on unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.