McClelland & Stewart Poetry Night 2026

McClelland & Stewart and Another Story Bookshop present Poetry Night 2026

Curated by M&S Poetry Editor, Canisia Lubrin, who since 2021 has published groundbreaking collections by the brightest poets in the country.

Doors at 6:45 pm, event starts at 7:15 pm. Admission is free and tickets are general admission. Registering for a ticket does not guarantee admission and we recommend arriving early!

ABOUT THE BOOKS & POETS

Two-time Trillium Book Award finalist Laurie D. Graham brings us CALLING IT BACK TO ME, a personal collection of familial history and memory.

LAURIE D. GRAHAM grew up in Treaty 6 Territory, near amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), and she has lived in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, in the Territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg, since 2018, where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine, a journal of literary non-fiction based in Toronto. Her first book, Rove, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry in Canada. Her second and third books, Settler Education and Fast Commute, were both nominated for Ontario’s Trillium Book Award for Poetry.

From Griffin Prize winner Kaie Kellough, we have INTERPOSITION—a long poem that examines desire and technology.

KAIE KELLOUGH is a poet, fiction writer, and sound performer living in Montreal. His previous collection, Magnetic Equator, won the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is a writer and vocalist for the group FYEAR and is pursuing graduate work in English at Queen’s University.

HORSES is Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets' poignant collection tracking the impacts of climate change on the land and people of the Navajo Nation.

JAKE SKEETS is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, selected by the National Poetry Series and winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and an American Book Award. A Whiting Award recipient, Skeets is from the Navajo Nation and was appointed the Nation’s third Poet Laureate. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.

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