Thrive Presents Ruth Roach Pierson with Greene and McIntire

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 8:00pm

The Grad Club
162 Barrie Street
Kingston, ON
K7L 3K1

Join Thrive as they host a Canada Council reading from Ruth Roach Pierson with Elizabeth Greene and Gabrielle McIntire.

ABOUT:

Elizabeth Greene has published two books of poetry, The Iron Shoes, and Moving. She edited and contributed to We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman, which won the Betty and Morris Aaron Award for Best Scholarship on a Canadian subject. She taught English for many years at Queen's.

Gabrielle McIntire is Associate Professor of English at Queen’s University. She is the author of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and her poetry has appeared in journals and collections in England, France, Canada, and the United States.

Ruth Roach Pierson took up the pen in pursuit of poetry after a distinguished career in academia. Her third collection of poetry, Contary, was published this past spring with Tightrope Books. Her poems have appeared in ARC, Event, The Fiddlehead, Literary Review of Canada, The Malahat Review, Pagitica, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prism International, Queen’s Feminist Review, Quills, Room of One’s Own, and Vallum as well as a number of anthologies. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their two cats, Haiku and Orange Roughy.

For more information on Ruth or her most recent collection visit: http://tightropebooks.com/contrary-ruth-roach-pierson/