Sadiqa de Meijer Virtual Reading, Nov. 16, 2.30pm
Sun. Oct. 29, 2023
The English Department is hosting a virtual reading by acclaimed author Sadiqa de Meijer on Thursday, November 16th at 2:30pm CST.
Sadiqa de Meijer is the author of the poetry collections Leaving Howe Island and The Outer Wards. Alfabet/alphabet won the 2021 Governor General Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Her work has also won the CBC Poetry Prize and Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, and she was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario. In 2022, she began a four-year term as Kingston Poet Laureate.
The event will be hosted by Professor Candida Rifkind and was made possible by with funding from the English Department’s Special Programmes Committee.