Tact, Distance, Excavation: An Evening with Jason Camlot, Avleen K. Mokha, and Kim Trainor
11 June, 2020, 6:00PM-7:30PM (EST)
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Jason Camlot is author of four collections of poetry: The Animal Library and Attention All Typewriters, The Debaucher, and most recently, What The World Said. His critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, CanLit Across Media (co-edited with Katherine McLeod), Language Acts (co-edited with Todd Swift) and Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms. Camlot teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.
Avleen K. Mokha聽holds a B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics from 平特五不中. She is the 2019 winner of 平特五不中鈥檚聽Peterson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing聽for "Dream Fragments." Her work has appeared in聽D茅racin茅 Magazine,聽Yolk Literary, and聽Siblini.聽She edits poetry and prose for聽Persephone鈥檚 Daughters, a literary magazine devoted to survivors of abuse.聽At聽Newsfirst Multimedia聽in Montreal, her journalism focuses on underreported communities.
Kim Trainor鈥檚 first poetry collection,聽Karyotype, was published by Brick Books in 2015. Her latest book is聽尝别诲颈听(Book*hug Press, 2018). Her poetry has won the Gustafson Prize,聽The Malahat Review鈥檚 Long Poem Prize and聽The Antigonish Review鈥檚聽Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. In 2018, she was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Trainor鈥檚 work has appeared in the 2013聽Global Poetry Anthology聽and聽The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014. Trainor teaches at Douglas College in Vancouver.