VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2 Opening Reading

with Deanna Young, John Barton, Noemie Pomerleau-Cloutier, Pierrette Requier and Rachel Mccrum

Presented with Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Friday

Nov , 2019

7:00pm

Eastern

Library and Archives Canada

395 Wellington St. • Ottawa

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VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2 Opening Reading

Deanna Young · Photo by Alice Young John Barton Noemie Pomerleau-Cloutier Pierrette Requier Rachel McCrum

Poet laureates from across Canada gather in Ottawa for three days of readings, discussions and performances.

Presented with Library and Archives Canada and Ottawa Public Library

The Authors

Deanna Young

Deanna Young is the author of four books of poetry. House Dreams (2014)) was shortlisted for several awards, including the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Ottawa Book Award. Reunion (2018) was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Archibald Lampman Award. Originally from southwestern Ontario, she lives in Ottawa where she works as an editor and teaches poetry privately. In 2019 she was named Ottawa’s English Poet Laureate for a two-year term.

John Barton

John Barton joined the Arc board in 1988 and was Arc's co-editor from 1990 to 2003 before moving to Victoria, where he edited The Malahat Review from 2004 to 2018. His twelfth book of poetry, Lost Family: A Memoir, was nominated for the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize.

Noemie Pomerleau-Cloutier

Originaire de la Côte-Nord, Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier habite Montréal. Citoyenne femeniste engagée, elle s’implique pour l’accès à l’éducation à tout âge et pour la justice sociale. Son premier recueil, Brasser le varech, a été publié à La Peuplade à l’automne 2017. She was a founding member of La poésie partout in 2017.

Pierrette Requier

Pierrette Requier est fille du vent et des vastes prairies de l’Ouest canadien, et femme de la ville. Depuis plus de 20 ans, elle est très active dans le milieu littéraire d’Edmonton. Poète officielle de la ville d’Edmonton, 2015-17, elle a été l’ambassadrice des arts littéraires dans le cadre de divers événements, un rôle qu’elle jouais en tant que personne liaison entre le RAFA (Regroupement artistique francophone de l’Alberta) et la Edmonton Poetry Festival Society. En s’engageant dans la réalisation et la production de plusieurs collaborations littéraires bilingues, et parfois multilingues et multi arts, elle a découvert que ce qui emballe c’est la langue vivante.

Rachel McCrum

Rachel McCrum is a poet, performer and workshop facilitator. Originally from Northern Ireland, she is now delighted to call Montreal home, where she is co-Director of Mile End Poets and runs around with various poetry events, including La poésie partout, the bilingual series Les Cabarets Bâtards and the Sunday evening series Breathing Space.