Past Event

You’re invited to an afternoon of poetry with Carleton Instructor David Stymeist and former Carleton student and acclaimed author Ben Ladouceur.

D.S. Stymeist’s debut collection, The Bone Weir, has just been released by Frontenac House. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Antigonish Review, Prairie Fire, Dalhousie Review, and The Fiddlehead. His work was featured as the Parliamentary Poet Laureate’s Poem of the Month (February 2015) and was short-listed for Vallum’s poetry prize. He teaches poetics, crime fiction, and digital humanities at Carleton University. His critical essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, such as Studies in English Literature, Essays in Renaissance Culture, Mosaic, and College Teaching. He grew up as a resident of O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation, is the editor and founder of the micro-press, Textualis, and is the current vice-president of VERSe Ottawa, which runs VerseFest, Ottawa’s annual poetry festival.

Bed Ladouceur is a writer living in Ottawa. His first collection of poems, Otter (Coach House Books), was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the 2016 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best debut poetry collection in Canada. Ben is a columnist for Open Book, and the prose editor for Arc Poetry Magazine. In 2016 he completed a three-month residency at the Al Purdy A-Frame in Ameliasburgh, ON.