This year's Poetry Weekend will be the best to date. We have a number of distinguished poets visiting.
Poetry Weekend: Oct 3-4, Saturday and Sunday at 11am, 2pm, and 8pm.
The weekend features renowned poets
· A.F. Moritz (this year's Griffin winner)
· Kevin Connolly (Griffin short-list)
· Sue Sinclair (International Independent Publishers' Award for The Drunken, Lovely Boat, UNB graduate)
· John Donlan (Brick Editor)
· John Reibetanz (Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize)
· Anita Lahey (ARC Editor)
· Katia Grubsic (winner of this year's League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Prize, UNB graduate)
· Holly Luhning (Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, UNB graduate) Jeffery Donaldson
· Wayne Clifford
· Matt Robinson (winner of this year's Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, UNB graduate)
· Shane Neilson (Frog Hollow Press Editor)
· Zachariah Wells
· Rachel Lebowitz
· Karen Schindler
Book launches by
· Brent MacLaine (this year's Atlantic Poetry Prize)
· Christina McRae
· Johnny Barger
· Vanessa Moeller (ArtsNB staff, UNB graduate)
· Jesse Ferguson (current UNB PhD)
And local poets
· Sharon McCartney
· Gerry Beirne
· Michael deBeyer
· Tammy Armstrong (current UNB PhD)
· James Langer (current UNB PhD)
· Bob Moore (UNBSJ faculty member)
· Jennifer Houle (UNB graduate)
As well as the UNB Creative Writing students!
