Two writers. One poetry event

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SAULT STE. MARIE PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Poetry event - Richard Kelly Kemick and Michael Prior

The Sault Ste. Marie Public Library would like to invite you to join international poets Richard Kelly Kemick and Michael Prior on Saturday June 4, 2016 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the reading area of the Centennial Library for an afternoon of poetry.

Meet both poets, enjoy the readings, and take part in the discussion of poetry, metaphor, and identity.

Copies of Caribou Run and Model Disciple will be available for sale at the event.

RICHARD KELLY KEMICK

Richard Kelly Kemick’s poetry, prose, and criticism have been published in magazines and journals across Canada and the United States, including The Walrus, the Literary Review of Canada, the Fiddlehead, the New Quarterly, and Tin House (Open Bar).

He has won the poetry prizes of both Grain magazine and Echolocation.

He lives in Calgary.

About Caribou Run:

In Caribou Run, Richard Kelly Kemick orchestrates a suite of poems both encyclopedic and lyrical, in which the caribou is both metaphor and phenomenon; both text and exegesis.

He explores what we share with this creature of blood and bone and what is hidden, alien, and ineffable.

MICHAEL PRIOR

Michael Prior's poems have appeared in publications across North America and the UK.

Winner of The Walrus's Poetry Prize, Matrix Magazine’s LitPop Award, Grain’s Short Grain Contest, Magma Poetry’s Editors' Prize and Vallum’s Poetry Prize, Michael currently resides in Ithaca, New York, where he is an MFA candidate in poetry at Cornell University.

About Model Disciple:

A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds.

Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior’s split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they submit to their reinvention.

Prior emerges as a poet not of identity, but identities.

Invented identities, double identities, provisional identities—his art always bearing witness to a sense of self held long enough to shed at a moment’s notice.

It’s also one of the most commanding poetic debuts in years.

Both Richard Kelly Kemick and Michael Prior will be available afterwards for book signing.

For more information please 705-759-5236 or email m.macdonald@cityssm.on.ca

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