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SUMMARY:Tommy Schnurmacher - Atwater Library Lunchtime Series
DESCRIPTION:For the Atwater Library Lunchtime Series\, veteran CJAD broadcaster Tommy Schnurmacher discusses his memoir Makeup Tips from Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life.  The book tells the story of how his Jewish mother got two top Nazis to save her life and the powerful impact that had on their relationship. \nWith Q&A and discussion.  Coffee and biscuits served.\nCopies of the book will be on sale.\nFREE.  Donations welcome. \nAtwater Library\, 1200 Atwater Ave. at Ste-Catherine (métro Atwater).  514-935-7344.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/atwater-library-lunchtime-series/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetry Matters with christian favreau\, M.W. Jaeggle\, & Rebecca Salazar
DESCRIPTION:Please join Poetry Matters for an evening with poets christian favreau\, M.W. Jaeggle\, and Rebecca Salazar\, exploring questions of trauma\, grief\, healing\, and gratitude.\n\n\n—\n\nWhen: Thursday\, January 23\, 7pm-9pm\nWhere: Anticafé Vieux-Port\, 406 Notre-Dame St. East\, Montreal\, Quebec H2Y 1C8\n\n\n\n\nHow can wellness be imagined for and by survivors of ongoing\, intersectional trauma? Addressing trauma as experienced by individual\, chronically ill bodies and on an ecological scale\, these poems turn to secular ritual and magic as ethical structures that may permit healing to coexist and engage politically with complex harms.\n\n\n\nRebecca Salazar (she/they) is the author of the knife that justifies the wound (Rahila’s Ghost) and Guzzle (Anstruther Press)\, a poetry editor for The Fiddlehead and Plenitude magazines\, and a PhD candidate living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Mi’kmaq peoples.\n\n\n\nYou think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand “and.”—Sufi parable\n\nFor far too long we have othered nature; the distinction between humans and the land has only bolstered illusions of authority and hierarchy. If\, as Phyllis Webb suggested\, poetry cannot change the world\, it can change individual consciousness—starting with the poet’s—in efforts to understand the “and” between “one” and “one.” This reading explores ecological grief\, the responsibility of connection\, and gratitude.\n\n\nchristian favreau is a poet and activist living in Montréal (Tiohtiá:ke). His work has appeared in The McGill Daily Literary Supplement and Vallum. His forthcoming book of poetry with JackPine Press will be available in late 2020.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn “Talking to Grief\,” poet Denise Levertov depicts grief as a stray dog desiring the companionship of the speaker—suggesting that taking ownership of grief transforms both the emotion and those experiencing it. In dialogue with Levertov\, Jaeggle’s Night of the Crash\, a sequence of poems on the death of the narrator’s son\, proposes that wellness is only antithetical to grief when grief is denied its history.\n\n\n\nM.W. Jaeggle’s poetry has appeared in The Antigonish Review\, Contemporary Verse 2\, The Dalhousie Review\, Vallum\, The Veg\, and elsewhere. He is author of two chapbooks\, Janus on the Pacific and The Night of the Crash. While pursuing an MA at McGill\, Mike served as Poetry Editor at Scrivener Creative Review and was awarded the Mona Adilman Prize in poetry. Currently Poetry Editor at Montreal Writes\, he lives in Vancouver.\n\n\n\n—\nFor further information on Poetry Matters\, please see https://www.mcgill.ca/poetrymatters/\n\nSuggestions for upcoming sessions very welcome – and please spread the word to any others who might be interested.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetry-matters-with-christian-favreau-m-w-jaeggle-rebecca-salazar/
LOCATION:Anticafé Vieux-Port\, 406 rue Notre-Dame E\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2Y 1C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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