VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: Brunch with a Bunch of Poets

with Afua Cooper, Jason Heroux, Julie Pellissier and Margaret Michele Cook

Presented with Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Sunday

Nov , 2019

10:00am

Eastern

ALLSAINTS

330 LAURIER AVENUE EAST • Ottawa

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VerseFest Presents: Laureate City 2: Brunch with a Bunch of Poets

Afua Cooper Jason Heroux Julie Pellissier-Lush M.S.M Margaret Michèle Cook

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

Afua Cooper

A celebrated poet, Afua Cooper was recently installed as Halifax’s Poet Laureate. She is the author of five books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Copper Woman and Other Poems. She has also recorded two poetry CDs. A founder of the Canadian Dub poetry movement, Afua Cooper was instrumental in organizing between 2004 and 2009, three international dub poetry festivals. Afua holds a Ph.D. in Black Canadian Studies and the African Diaspora from the University of Toronto.

Jason Heroux

Jason Heroux is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Kingston. He is the author of four books of poetry: Memoirs of an Alias (2004); Emergency Hallelujah (2008); Natural Capital (2012) and Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines (2016). His most recent book is the novel Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow (Mansfield Press, 2018).

Julie Pellissier-Lush M.S.M

Julie Pellissier-Lush M.S.M, is an actress and bestselling author of ‘My Mi’kmaq Mother’, is Poet Laureate for PEI. She writes, acts, and does photography to preserve the history and culture of the Mi’kmaq for future generations. Julie wrote the poems for the play ‘Mi’kmaq Legends’ in 2010 and they have been performed for the last 8 years on many different stages in the Atlantic region. She lives in PEI with her husband Rick, her five children, and her Granddaughter Miah.

Margaret Michèle Cook

Margaret Michèle Cook est l’auteure de huit recueils de poésie. Les cinq premiers, à commencer avec Envers le jour, publié en 1994 et finaliste au Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto, sont publiés aux Éditions du Nordir. Lorsque cette maison a fermé ses portes, elle s’est tournée vers les Éditions l’Interligne qui ont fait paraître ses trois prochains recueils, dont Chronos à sa table de travail qui a remporté le Prix du livre d’Ottawa en 2009. Après Chronos, elle a publié En contrepoint : les figures de l’île en 2012 et Lanterna magica - la lanterne magique en 2015. Margaret Michèle Cook habite Ottawa depuis une trentaine d’années et elle est Poète lauréate de la Ville d’Ottawa pour 2019-2021.