Eve of Poetry, January 2022

Please join us for a celebration of poetry in January’s deep freeze, featuring the wonderful words of Noah Warren, Christopher Salerno, Annick MacAskill, and shalan joudry.

The readings will be followed by a Q&A.

Noah Warren was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and educated in the United States. He is the author of The Complete Stories, published by Copper Canyon in 2021, and The Destroyer in the Glass, chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, where his research explores questions of materiality and nation-building in nineteenth century American poetry.

Christopher Salerno is the author of five poetry collections, including The Man Grave (Persea Books, 2021), and four chapbooks. Editor of Saturnalia Books, and Professor of Creative Writing at William Paterson University, his poetry has appeared in The New York Times, New Republic, American Poetry Review, and in the Academy of American Poets’ “Poem-A-Day” series. Born in Somerville, NJ, Salerno has lived in Cazenovia, NY, Greenville, NC, and Raleigh, NC, and currently resides in Caldwell, NJ.

Annick MacAskill is the author of two poetry collections, Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020) and No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and shortlisted for the J. M. Abraham Poetry Award. Her third full-length collection will be published by Gaspereau Press in the spring of 2022. Her poems have appeared in journals across Canada and abroad, and in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology series. Originally from Ontario, she currently lives and writes in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq.

shalan is a Mi’kmaw mother, poet, playwright, oral storyteller and ecologist. Using her theatrical background, shalan brings Mi’kmaw stories to a new generation of listeners, as well as recounting personally crafted narratives that follow Mi’kmaw storying custom. The author of three books, her most recent book, Waking Ground (2020) was shortlisted for the J.M. Abrahms Atlantic Poetry Award, the Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award, the 2021 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry in English. shalan recently wrote and performed her second theatrical play, Koqm. After a successful two-night performance of this solo show, shalan and the production team are looking forward to the upcoming two-week run on the Neptune main stage in Halifax (2022). She is currently ruminating on new literary works and studying the Mi’kmaw language.

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