Montreal Reading with Dutch poet Erik Lindner

Thursday, November 28, 2024, 7pm
Librarie Bertrand (430 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montreal)

Véhicule Press, Librarie Bertrand, and the Dutch Foundation for Literature invite you to a poetry reading by Erik Lindner, with special guests Derek Webster and Sarah Wolfson.

Erik Lindner is a Dutch poet who published seven books of poetry and two novels. He will be reading from Words Are the Worst, his selected poems, translated by Francis R. Jones, and nominated for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Born in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1968, Lindner lives in Amsterdam and works as a freelance writer, teacher and critic. Apart from English and German, several books of his translated poetry appeared in France and Italy.

Special readers include:

Derek Webster, whose second book of poetry National Animal, was recently awarded The QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. His debut, Mockingbird, was a finalist for the 2015 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.

Sarah Wolfson, the author of A Common Name for Everything, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry in 2020. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received a notable mention in Best Canadian Poetry. Originally from Vermont, she now lives in Montreal, where she teaches writing at McGill University.

With special thanks to the Dutch Foundation for Literature for their support.