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SUMMARY:Poetics and Magic: Modernist Verse and  Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Orla Polten
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22\, 20244:00-5:30 pm ET\n\n\n\nOrla Polten (they/she) is a research affiliate at McGill University working on the relationship between magic and poetics. They earned their Ph.D. in English from the University of Cambridge\, specialising in anglophone reception of Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Polten’s first book\, English Verse in Classical Metres\, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Their current research asks what is at stake in the claim—prevalent in modernist poetic discourse—that poetry is a kind of magic. 
URL:https://qwf.org/event/poetics-and-magic-modernist-verse-and-artificial-intelligence-with-dr-orla-polten/
LOCATION:Birks Building\, 3520 rue University\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Subterrane by Valérie Bah
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22\, 2024\, 7:00-8:30 pm ETLibrairie Saint-Henri Books\n\n\n\nVéhicule Press and Librairie Saint-Henri Books invite you to the launch of Valérie Bah’s Subterrane. Hosted by Esplanade Books editor Dimitri Nasrallah\, the event will feature Valérie reading from the novel\, as well as conversation with special guests Leïka Narcisse and Esi Callender. Refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\nA speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity. \n\n\n\nNew Stockholm\, a metropolis like any other across North America\, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the centre of its gleaming eye\, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of Zeynab’s government-funded abstract documentary. Her lens trails to the city’s margins instead\, in polluted industrial wastelands such as Cipher Falls\, one of New Stockholm’s last affordable neighbourhoods\, where creatives and other anti-capitalist voices increasingly find themselves pushed into demeaning\, dead-end jobs. In this growing underground network\, Zeynab’s lens focuses on the mysterious demise of Doudou Laguerre\, whose death may be related to his activism against a construction project. \n\n\n\nSubterrane connects us to a constellation of Black and Queer voices\, the hair braiders\, tattoo artists\, holistic healers\, weed dealers\, and sidewalk horticulturists struggling to make a life in New Stockholm. Together\, they illustrate how in cities across the continent\, entire communities are being sidelined in the name of prosperity. \n\n\n\n*** \n\n\n\nValérie Bah is a multidisciplinary Québécois artist\, filmmaker\, documentarian\, photographer\, and writer. Bah’s first collection\, The Rage Letters\, was translated from the French by Kama La Mackerel and published by Metonymy Press. Subterrane is their first book in English. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-subterrane-by-valerie-bah/
LOCATION:Librairie Saint-Henri Bookstore\, 4622 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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