TUES APR 9, 7.30p.m.
LINC classroom,4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library
LINC classroom,4th floor, Central Branch, Hamilton Public Library
Poet and essayist, J.S. Porter was
born in Belfast in the north of Ireland and educated at McMaster University (MA
in English literature). He is the Culture Critic for The Nancy Duffy Show, a
columnist for Dialogue Magazine and a frequent contributor
to Hamilton Arts and Letters. His most recent books are The
Glass Art of Sarah Hall and Lightness and Soul: Musings on
Eight Jewish Writers. He co-authored
a book with SusanMcCaslin, Thomas Merton Superabundantly Alive. He
is currently writing a book of poetry and notes entitled Furrawn: Talk
that Leads to Intimacy. John reads and writes in Hamilton with
his wife Cheryl.
Susan McCaslin is an
established Canadian poet and Faculty Emeritus of English and Creative Writing
and has published fifteen volumes of poetry, including Into the Open: Poems
New and Selected (Inanna, Sept. 2017). Susan has recently
collaborated with J.S. Porter on a work of creative non-fiction, Thomas
Merton Superabundantly Alive (Wood Lake, Oct. 2018), on the
twentieth-century contemplative and activist Thomas Merton. Her Demeter Goes
Skydiving (University of Alberta Press, 2011) was short-listed for the
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Poetry Book Prize) and first-place winner of
the Alberta Book Publishing Award. Susan resides in Fort Langley, BC, where she
initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project as part of a successful campaign to
protect an endangered rainforest along the Fraser River. www.susanmccaslin.ca
