Poetry Reading: Derek Webster & Mary Dean Lee

Name: Poetry Reading: Derek Webster & Mary Dean Lee
Start: 2024-06-16T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-06-16T20:00:00+00:00
Location: 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9

Schedule

Sun Jun 16 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9 | Montreal, QC

Join us as Two Montreal poets read from their new collections and sign books: 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍 by 𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 & 𝑻𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒍 by 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗲.
Admission is free.
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬:
𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍, 𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫’s second book of poetry, inhabits a wider public space than his acclaimed debut 𝑴𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅. In poems that extend beyond the biographical toward the political, Webster’s quiet, sharp-eyed narrator—a man “tripping / my way forward, trying to lead my own life”—watches history being erased in favour of more socially palatable ideas and comforting self-portraits. Uncompromising and substantial, 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍 explores our “civic moment” where "birds sing oblivion / estranged from all things," and meditates, in a final image-rich sequence, on our place in a science-based cosmos.
𝑻𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒍 (Pine Row Press) is 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗲's first book. "Born out of the mysterious Georgia wetlands, the poems in Mary Dean Lee’s Tidal ring out, echoing across a far greater expanse of geography and time. Salt marshes and mud flats populate these poems as does the moon that rules all our rising and falling. But at the center is the woman reflecting on her life, raging against social injustice, swimming through grief, and flowing in the currents of romantic love. These poems are powerfully political and deeply personal.” - Denton Loving, author of Tamp
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬:
𝐃𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫’s 𝑴𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅 (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied with Carl Phillips, and was the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine. He lives in Montreal and Toronto.
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗲’s poetry has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry 2021, Ploughshares, The Fiddlehead, and Salvation South, as well as other journals. She grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia, studied theatre and literature at Duke University and Eckerd College, and received her PhD in organizational behavior at Yale. She lives in Montreal.