TUES OCT 9
7.30p.m.-9.00p.m.
4th floor, LINC classroom, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library
Paul Lisson was born in the north end of Hamilton into a family of union card carrying steel workers who played in bagpipe bands.
Poet and archivist. Winner: Hamilton Art Award for Visual Art and Writing (1997); and for Arts Administration (2017). Winner: McMaster University Rand Memorial Prize for Accomplishment in Print. Paul was, for many years, the Librarian in the Programming Department at the Hamilton Public Library and organized hundreds of concerts, exhibitions, and talks. Co-founder with Fiona Kinsella and Peter Stevens (1963-2015) of Hamilton Arts & Letters magazine. Co-founder of the Short Works Prize for Hamilton writers.
Paul’s first full-length book of poems, The Perfect Archive, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2019.
