AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month

Featuring Conyer Clayton, Ellen Chang-Richardson and Amanda Earl

Presented by: Amanda Earl

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0	ONLINE: Zoom
P	Saturday 13th April, 2024
N	2:00pm

Event information

AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Conyer Clayton, Ellen Chang-Richardson and Amanda Earl
Saturday, April 13, 2024 2pm EASTERN TIME on Zoom
a free reading sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets
The poets will read from recent and forthcoming works. The theme for National Poetry Month is year is weather.

Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky now living in Ottawa, whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, addiction, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. Their latest book is But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Anvil Press). They are a Senior Editor at Augur, Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, and guest edited issues of CV2 and Room Magazine. You can find their nonfiction and poetry in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, This Magazine, Room Magazine, filling station, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Turtle Island including Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ex-Puritan, third coast magazine and Watch Your Head. They are an editorial member of Room magazine, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) is their debut collection. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer writer, reviewer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry. Her latest book is Beast Body Epic, a collection of long poems about her near-death health crisis. Her latest chapbook is Seasons, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia. Amanda is grateful for funding from the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant Program for Writers. Photo credit: Charles Earl.