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<font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">March comes in like a lion for The Reading Series at St Jerome's with the dynamic rob mclennan, poet, novelist, non-fiction writer, publisher, editor, reviewer...</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">rob mclennan reads Wednesday 5 March, 4:30pm, STJ 2011</b><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The opening act will be Elizabeth Bate.</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John
Newlove Poetry Award in 2011, and his most recent titles are the poetry collections</span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Songs for little sleep</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
(Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">grief notes</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A
(short) history of l</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. (BuschekBooks, 2011),</span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glengarry</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Talonbooks,
2011) and </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">kate street</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">missing
persons</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
Garneau Review</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><a href="http://ottawater.com/garneaureview" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ottawater.com/garneaureview</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">seventeen
seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><a href="http://ottawater.com/seventeenseconds" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ottawater.com/<wbr>seventeenseconds</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)
and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual </span><i style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ottawater</i><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><a href="http://ottawater.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ottawater.com</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">).
He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at </span><a href="http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">robmclennan.blogspot.com</a></font>
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<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="2">For more information about the Reading Series, please visit <a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">canlitkicksass.blogspot.<wbr>ca</a><br>
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<i>We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.<br>
Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.</i></font></div>
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