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<div><font size="2">The Reading Series at St. Jerome's invites you to its first event for Winter 2012, featuring <b>TWO poets: Rishma Dunlop and Tanis MacDonald. </b></font></div>
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<div><b><font size="2">Join us Thursday, February 9th, at 4:30pm, in STJ 3014.</font></b></div>
<div><b><font size="2">The reading is free and all are welcome. Please spread the word!</font></b></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span>For more information, please visit us online at the Reading Series website </span><a href="https://connect.uwaterloo.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=34ecf1e3967642d4b950a149d5dabea4&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sju.ca%2freading_series.html%2c" target="_blank">www.sju.ca/reading_series.html</a><span>,
and blog,</span><a href="https://connect.uwaterloo.ca/owa/redir.aspx?C=34ecf1e3967642d4b950a149d5dabea4&URL=http%3a%2f%2fcanlitkicksass.blogspot.com%2f" target="_blank">canlitkicksass.blogspot.com</a><span>.</span><br>
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<i>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $40.3 million in the arts in Ontario.</i>
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<div><font size="2">More about the authors: </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. Her fifth book of poetry,
<i>Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems</i>, was published in 2011. Her previous books include
<i>White Album</i>, <i>Metropolis</i>, <i>Reading Like a Girl</i>, and <i>The Body of My Garden</i>. She won the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003 and has been a finalist for the CBC Prizes in Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction, and the Vanderbilt-Carter
V. Cooper Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing in 2009-2010, and she was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, for achievement in the arts and the humanities. She is a professor
of English and Creative Writing at York University, Toronto. Visit her website at <a href="http://www.rishmadunlop.com" target="_blank">www.rishmadunlop.com</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Tanis MacDonald is the author of three books of poetry: <i>Holding Ground</i> (Seraphim Editions, 2000);
<i>Fortune</i> (Turnstone Press, 2003) and most recently, <i>Rue the Day</i> (Turnstone Press, 2008). She is also the editor of
<i>Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt</i> (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006) and her study on the feminist elegy in Canada,
<i>The Daughter’s Way: Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies</i> (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) will be available in Spring 2012. Her poetry has been widely anthologized and she is well-known as a reviewer and personal essayist as well as a poet and an academic.
She won the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize, awarded jointly by Prairie Fire Magazine and the Banff School of Fine Arts, in 2003. She is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Visit her website at
<a href="http://www.tanismacdonald.com" target="_blank">www.tanismacdonald.com</a></font></div>
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