44 Pure Poetry

Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel Stripmalling, which was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, as well as three poetry collections, including The Theory of the Loser Class, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize. His most recent collection is Indexical Elegies. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University, edits Matrix magazine and runs Snare Books. Read more

Don McKay is the author of 11 books of poetry, most recently Strike/Slip. He has won two Governor General awards for poetry and has been shortlisted twice for the Griffin Poetry Prize, most recently for Camber: Selected Poems, which was a Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year. McKay is also known as a poetry editor, and he has taught poetry in universities across the country.

Don McKay’s appearance is made possible in part by The Betty and Ralph Gustafson Chair of Poetry at Vancouver Island University. Read more

Miranda Pearson is the author of two previous books of poetry, Prime and The Aviary. Her poems have also appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. A graduate of the University of British Columbia’s MFA Program, Pearson lives in Vancouver, where she works as a freelance editor, teaches poetry workshops at Simon Fraser University’s Writing and Publishing Program, and works in community mental health care. Her latest collection is Harbour. Read more