David Stymeist Book Launch – Cluster Flux

• In-person event

Stymeist’s new book, Cluster Flux, is attentive to the challenges of illness and loss, sustained by observations on history, community and social upheaval amid our necessary routines, these poems disclose memorable human insights with gusto, a sense of urgency, and lyrical grace.
-David O’Meara, author of Masses on Radar

D.S. Stymeist’s collection of poetry, Cluster Flux, appears this fall with Frontenac Press. His debut collection, The Bone Weir, was a finalist for the Canadian Author’s Association Poetry Award. Alongside fending off Crohn’s disease, he currently teaches creative writing at Carleton University. As former president of VERSe Ottawa, he helped organize VERSeFest, Ottawa’s international poetry festival.

Tyler Pennock is a two-spirit adoptee from a Cree and Metis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta. Tyler is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They currently teach in the Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto, and School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. They graduated from Guelph University’s Creative Writing MFA program in 2013, and currently live in Toronto. Their first Book, BONES (Brick Books) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award in 2021. Their second book, BLOOD was released in September 2022.