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Summer 2020 Virtual Sessions

Tact, Distance, Excavation: An Evening with Jason Camlot, Avleen K. Mokha, and Kim Trainor

11 June, 2020, 6:00PM-7:30PM (EST)

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Jason Camlot is author of four collections of poetry: The Animal Library and Attention All Typewriters, The Debaucher, and most recently, What The World Said. His critical works include Phonopoetics: The Making of Early Literary Recordings, CanLit Across Media (co-edited with Katherine McLeod), Language Acts (co-edited with Todd Swift) and Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms. Camlot teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.

Avleen K. Mokha holds a B.A. in English Literature and Linguistics from Â鶹AV. She is the 2019 winner of Â鶹AV’s Peterson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing for "Dream Fragments." Her work has appeared in DĂ©racinĂ© Magazine, Yolk Literary, and Siblini. She edits poetry and prose for Persephone’s Daughters, a literary magazine devoted to survivors of abuse. At Newsfirst Multimedia in Montreal, her journalism focuses on underreported communities.

Kim Trainor’s first poetry collection, Karyotype, was published by Brick Books in 2015. Her latest book is ł˘±đ»ĺľ±Ěý(Book*hug Press, 2018). Her poetry has won the Gustafson Prize, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. In 2018, she was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Trainor’s work has appeared in the 2013 Global Poetry Anthology and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2014. Trainor teaches at Douglas College in Vancouver.

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