Poetry Matters: Scenes of Attunement

Please join Poetry Matters for “Scenes of Attunement,” a poetry reading featuring Christopher Buddle, Joseph Kidney, and Willow Loveday Little.

When: Thursday, April 17, 5-7pm
Where: The Yellow Door, 3625 rue Aylmer

Leading from Poetry Matters’ work on “poetic attention,” we’ve invited poets to consider forms of attunement achieved through poetry, and how attunement by way of poetic form might offer modes of response to the constraints of our climate, broadly construed. As the semester comes to a close, we hope this event might provide a study break for those in the midst of exam season! Light refreshments will be provided.

If you would like to attend, but have any concerns about the accessibility of the venue, please email charlotte.frank@mail.mcgill.ca . 

Christopher Buddle is an artist, writer, and faculty member in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University. His research and teaching focus is ecology, entomology, and field studies, with an emphasis on the biodiversity of insects and spiders, in a variety of habitats. Buddle’s first creative publication A Portrait of Astonishing Nature (2024) combines poetry, art, and science and celebrates the biodiversity of Creek 53, a section of land located near Hudson Quebec. The Creek 53 Conservancy Trust will be the beneficiary of profits from the sale of this book, preserving the land for future generations.

Joseph Kidney holds a PhD in early modern drama from Stanford University and now lectures at Stanford’s Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) program. His poetry has appeared in several publications including Arc, The Ex-Puritan, Vallum, and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (in Arabic translation). Kidney has been shortlisted and nominated for several awards and prizes. He won the 2024 Arc Poetry Magazine Poem of the Year Contest, Grain’s 2021 Short Grain Contest, and CV2’s Young Buck Poetry Prize (now the Foster Poetry Prize). In 2024, he served as Deer Lake Artist in Residence. His chapbook Terra Firma, Pharma Sea is available from Anstruther Press, and his debut book Devotional Forensics was published in March 2025. 

Willow Loveday Little‘s work has appeared in such venues as The Dalhousie Review, yolk literary, Metatron, HA&L, The League of Canadian Poetschapbook series, Vallum, and On Spec. She published her debut poetry collection (Vice) Viscera with Cactus Press in 2022 and joined the team as an editor in 2024. Willow sits on the board of the English Language Arts Network as a representative for writing.