Spring will be celebrated at Brandon University next week with a trio of student poets presenting a sampling of new work.
The reading will take place on Tuesday, March 31, from 12:40 to 1:10 p.m., in Room 206 of Clark Hall. The short and sweet 30-minute event will feature students Myla Chartrand, Rafael Palma, and Rachel Yakimishen each having seven minutes to read a selection of their poetry. A brief talkback session, when the audience can engage the poets with questions, will follow.
Chartrand recently had one of her poems published in the Fernwood Press anthology I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis. According to the publisher, the anthology “builds on the rich traditions of working-class literature, work poetry, and social poetics.” She is a second-year English Honours student.
“They will take our Brandon audience along on an exhilarating poetic journey.”
Prof. Dale Lakevold
Palma has also had his work anthologized by a national publisher. Cormorant Books, based in Toronto, broke new literary ground last year with the first anthology of Filipino-Canadian literature ever published in Canada. Their editors selected five poems by Palma, who is originally from the Philippines, for Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing.
Yakimishen, a third-year student in Religion and Anthropology, has publication of her poetry in mind. She is working on a poetry manuscript and preparing her work for submission to Canada’s independent literary journals. Her dream, she says, is “for a future filled with research and writing.”
Dale Lakevold, event organizer and Creative Writing instructor at BU, praises the high quality of writing that BU students produce year after year without fail.
“These three poets provide a brilliant example of this quality,” says Lakevold. “They each have rich personal and cultural contexts to draw on for their work, and they will take our Brandon audience along on an exhilarating poetic journey.”
The reading will be free and open to all. Latecomers are welcome.
The event is sponsored by the Creative Writing Literary Exchange at BU and supported by funding from the Department of English, Drama, and Creative Writing.
For information, contact Prof. Dale Lakevold at Lakevold@BrandonU.ca or by phone at 204-727-7413.
Contact
- Dale Lakevold
- English and Creative Writing
- Lakevold@BrandonU.ca
- 2047277413
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