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For some time, we expected<br>
the end of the world<br>
to be a mushroom.<br>
A vengeful good, a good<br>
of fire, clouded thought.<br>
But every spring they come out of the ground<br>
like universal suffrage,<br>
a writ of habeas corpus,<br>
speech before writing.<br>
They say, dirt. They say, get up.<br>
- from Adam Dickinson's "The Good, part I"</blockquote>
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's Spring -- Get up and come hear Adam Dickinson read! We welcome him to bring to a rousing close another great year
of The Reading Series at St Jerome's -- and to celebrate the release of his latest book, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Polymers</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (a
poetry collection "structured as an imaginary science project"), hot off the presses from Anansi. </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please join us on Thursday, 4 April at 4:30pm in STJ 3014.</b><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chrissy Brown</b><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> will
be the opening act.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More about the feature author:</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<b>Adam Dickinson</b> is a writer, researcher and teacher. His poems have appeared in literary journals in Canada and internationally as well as in anthologies such as <i>Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets</i> and <i>The Shape of Content: Creative Writing
in Mathematics and Science</i>. His collection <i>Kingdom, Phylum</i> was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. He is the author most recently of <i>The Polymers</i> (Anansi 2013). He is also working on another poetry project that involves testing
his blood and body for chemicals and microbes. When not giving his body to science, he teaches at Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, where he researches intersections between pataphysics and ecopoetics.
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<div><b style="font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-family: Helvetica;">For more information about the Reading Series, please visit our blog, <a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"></a><a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">canlitkicksass.blogspot.<wbr>ca</a></b>
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<i>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.</i></p>
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<i>Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 154 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i></p>
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