Plan 99 Poetry with Jeramy Dodds,Suzannah Showler and Sina Queyras

In Person Poetry

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Plan 99 Poetry with Jeramy Dodds,Suzannah Showler and Sina Queyras

Her poems are distinguished by their cultural awareness…without losing sight of the human ethos that defines modern living.

Publishers Weekly on Suzannah Showler

Following the Fratellini Family of clowns, Jeramy Dodds astonishes readers and non-readers alike. Techniques such as his patented triumph, the Grand Mal Caesura, along with other favourites, are on display inside. Dodds is a warlock of words, only to be outdone by them, enslaved by them, freed by them - maybe even loved by them. Drakkar Noir is a haunting, yet hilarious depiction of a journey to and fro the furthest limits of the human experimence.

Thing Is is a startling and hip new collection of poetry from Suzannah Showler, a dual American/Canadian citizen who's already making waves on the literary scene.

In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century–Sylvia Plath's Ariel–with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women.

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The Authors

Jeramy Dodds

Jeramy Dodds grew up in Orono, Ontario, Canada. He received a BA from Trent University in English Literature and Anthropology and an MA from the University of Iceland in Medieval Icelandic Studies. His poems have been translated into Latvian, Hungarian, Finnish, French, Swedish, Icelandic and German. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award for poetry. His first collection of poems, Crabwise to the Hounds(Coach House Books, 2008), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and won the Trillium Book Award for poetry. His most recent publication is a translation of the Poetic Edda (Coach House Books, 2014) from Old Icelandic into English. He is a poetry editor at Coach House Books. He currently lives in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Sina Queyras

Sina Queyras is the author of the Lambda Award–winning Lemon Hound, Expressway (shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award), and the novel Autobiography of Childhood (shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award). She often writes for the Poetry Foundation and runs the online journal Lemon Hound (Lemonhound.com). She has taught creative writing at Rutgers, Haverford and Concordia University in Montreal, where she now resides.

Suzannah Showler

Suzannah Showler’s first book, Failure to Thrive (2014), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award and named one of the best books of the year by the National Post. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in places such as Slate, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Hazlitt. She is a 2017-2018 Presidential Fellow at The Ohio State University.