Single Onion #183

SINGLE ONION #183

IMPORTANT: You will need to register for the event.
WHAT: The Single Onion features four excellent poets: Kevin Andrew Heslop, Sue Sinclar, Gemma Garcia, and Nduka Otiono.

WHEN: Thursday, April 21, 2022, 7 p.m.

WHERE: register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdOiurzwpEtF_DAvCzq7M3KOVXSgMQQr9

About the readers:

Gemma García published The Thin Red Line in digital and print editions (2014); more recently, she presented a Spanish poetry collection, Sol de Nagano, self-published as a chapbook (2021), and upcoming this year, 2022, the poem “Roots”, to appear in Barrio Panther vol.4. Her articles on the poetry of Spanish peninsular poet Jaime Siles, and South American poets Gonzalo Rojas and Juan Gelman appeared in Revista Aerea and Fragmenta, and she has collaborated in the edition and publication of a 16th Century Spanish-peninsular poetry collection (Studia Aurea, Girona 2016). Born in Madrid, Spain, she graduated in Spanish Language and Literature from Universidad Complutense (Madrid), and earned an MA & Doctorate at the University of Calgary, Alberta, specializing in Modern & Contemporary Latin American Poetry.

Kevin Andrew Heslop is a polydisciplinary artist whose debut poetry collection the correct fury of your why is a mountain, “read with admiration” by Nobel Prize-Winning novelist J.M. Coetzee, appeared with Gordon Hill Press in 2021 and whose work as a poet, filmmaker, curator, playwright, and journalist respectively has lately appeared or is forthcoming with The Fiddlehead (2020), Anstruther Press (2020), and Frog Hollow Press (2019); the Toronto Short Film Festival (2022), the Los Angeles International Film Festival (2022), the Milan Gold Awards (2022), and the Paris Play International Film Festival (2022); McIntosh Gallery (2022), Heaven Scent (2022), and Westland Gallery (2023); TAP Centre for Creativity (2022); and The Devil’s Artisan (2021) and The /tƐmz/ Review (2022), for which Kevin currently serves as Poetry Editor and Resident Interviewer. His practice is located southwest of where Deshkan Ziibi antlers unceded through London Township Treaty (1796) territory.

Nduka Otiono is a writer, Associate Professor, and Graduate Program Coordinator at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. He is the author and co-editor of nine books of creative writing and academic research. Prior to turning to academia, he was a journalist for fifteen years in Nigeria and served as the General Secretary of the Association of Nigerian Authors. His creative writing honors include the ANA/Spectrum Prize for Fiction and Honorary Mention for the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize. His professional honors include a Capital Educator’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, a Carleton University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Early Career Award for Research Excellence, and a 2018 Black History Ottawa Community Builder Award. DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono is his latest book published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Sue Sinclair has been praised for her “crisp, lyrical poems imbued with subtle, subtextual philosophic musings” (Globe and Mail). She has been described as a poet who “writes her way to a new understanding of the world and carries her readers with her” (Journal of Canadian Poetry). Sinclair’s debut collection, Secrets of Weather and Hope, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, while subsequent collections have earned a place on the Globe Top 100 list (Mortal Arguments), won the IPPY Poetry Award (The Drunken Lovely Bird), and the Pat Lowther Award (Heaven’s Thieves). Her latest collection is Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane).

The Single Onion takes place the third Thursday of the month, nine times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at www.singleonion.com
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The League of Canadian Poets, the Calgary Arts Development, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the Writers’ Union of Canada.

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