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events in Canada and abroad, her work garnering a top prize at the 2012 Berlin Zebra
Poetry Film Festival and appearing on shortlists for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award
and the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her second novel, Looking for Her, was published by

Baraka Books in October 2024.

Neil J. Whitehouse is a minister, a zoology graduate (Liverpool), a massage therapist,
and gay. He trained as a Methodist minister (Cambridge), worked in central London for
twelve years, and moved to Montreal in 2001, joining the United Church of Canada. He
is on the advisory board of Montreal Green Coalition and speaks up for nature at city
halls and churches. Neil is now working on a sequel to The Gospel of Jesus Green.

Jan Jorgensen graduated from Bard College a long time ago with an AB in Creative
Writing. Later she received her MAR and MDiv degrees from Yale Divinity School. She
founded the Lawn Chair Soirée in January 2006 and has been fortunate in having
encountered a wide array of gifted writers, some of whom have become dear friends.
Jan tends to store her writing in random files in her computer, sometimes forgetting
that certain poems exist, but there have been a few publications thanks to Vallum, Kola

Magazine, Montréal Serai, and anthologies such as Twigs & Leaves III, Les poètes du
couloir culturel de Griffintown/ Poets in the Griffintown Cultural Corridor, and 2020
Anthology of Poetry with Drawings by Bill Liebeskind. Her debut volume of poetry,
Birthing Godde, was recently released by Ekstasis Editions.

There will also be music by MJ Tremblay
and an Open Mic (3 minutes max)

Poster with book cover images attached to email.

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AND IN OTHER NEWS

Klara du Plessis will be reading from her latest book Post-Mortem of
the Event (Palimpsest Press, 2024). She will be joined by Kirby, Sarah Burgoyne, Darren

Bifford, and Katherine Alexandra Harvey sharing excerpts from The Anstruther Reader,
also launching with Palimpsest Press. The event will be hosted by Jim Johnstone.
Sunday, 10 November 2024
2-4pm
Librairie Paragraphe
2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal