Past Event

Please join us as we gather with the friends and colleagues of poet and scholar Robert Hogg for a memorial reading of his poetry. Guest speakers will read poems from Robert’s 56+ year publishing career so that we may continue to remember and celebrate his life and poetry.

When: Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM.

Where: Dunton Tower 2017, Carleton University

Light refreshments will be served. 

We strongly encourage all in attendance to wear masks and practice social distancing as much as possible.

This event is being held in person and will not have an online component or recording.

Speakers will include:

	Jennifer Baker is a poet and Adjunct Professor of English Literature living and working in Ottawa. She is the author of three chapbooks: Abject Lessons (above/ground press, 2014), Groundling (Trainwreck Press, 2021), and Memento Mishka (with David Currie, forthcoming from Apt.9 Press, 2023). Her poetry, reviews, and articles can be found in Ottawater, Dusie, Canthius, The Bull Calf, Canadian Literature, The Journal of Canadian Poetry, and Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet (University of Ottawa Press, 2020), among others. In 2022, she won honourable mention in Arc Poetry Magazine’s Diana Brebner Prize.
	Phil Hall has been publishing poetry in Canada for 50 years this year. His most recent book is The Ash Bell (Beautiful Outlaw Press, 2022). Forthcoming this fall: Vallejo’s Marrow (Beautiful Outlaw Press, 2023).
	Natalie Hanna is a queer, disabled, Ottawa-born lawyer of Middle-Eastern descent. She is the author of lisan al’asfour (ARP, 2022) and thirteen chapbooks, including titles with above/ground press, Baseline Press, and machine dreams with Liam Burke (Collusion, 2021), which was nominated for the 2022 bpNichol Chapbook Award. She runs battleaxe press, a feminist-focused small poetry press.
	Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collections the book of smaller (University of Calgary Press, 2022) and World’s End, (ARP Books, 2023), and a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics and Touch the Donkey. He is editor of my (small press) writing day, and an editor/managing editor of many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices here.
	Collett Tracey teaches Canadian literature at Carleton University. Her areas of research and writing are twentieth century writing (American, Canadian and British) and Canadian poetry and fiction in particular. She has long been an advocate for creative writers and poets and towards this end she was the founder of In/Words magazine and press. She is currently working on a book about the history of publishing 20th century poetry in Canada, Montreal modernism and the rise of little magazine/press publishing (Cormorant Books, Forthcoming).
	Chris Turnbull is the author of Continua (Chaudiere; Invisible Books) and [ untitled ] in own (CUE Books). Some recent work includes a collaboration with Elee Kraljii Gardiner in Some and Touch the Donkey, and a sequence from “notes from recently” in UK-based Imminent. A section of her “notes from recently” was published in chapbook form by Trainwreck (2019); her collaboration with Portuguese text/artist Bruno Neiva, Undertones, was published through Low Frequency Press (2019). Installation, visual poetry, and other literary work can be found online, in books, and within landscapes. She publishes a footpress, called rout/e, whereby poetry is found on trails, here.

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