Upcoming and Recent Events
Virtual Book Launch
Join us for a virtual launch of Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art, edited by Dominique Hétu, Libe García Zarranz, Amanda Fayant, and Marie Carrière. There will be a conversation between contributors and co-editors, followed by a Q + A.
Date: Monday, May 26
Time: 10 - 11AM (MDT)
Registration is required for this event, which will be hosted via Zoom.
Congratulations to the Winners of the 2025 Student Poetry Contest
The CLC congratulates Alexis De Villa and Teren Hazzard as joint first-place winners of our 2025 Student Poetry Contest!
To read the poems and bios from the winning poets, click HERE.
The Gateway interviewed the winning poets about their interpretation of this year's poetry contest theme: polyphony. Read the interview HERE.
Thank you to the jury members, our partners and sponsors, and all the students who submitted poems.
Reading + Conversation Recording: Jami Reimer and shalan joudry
From the CLC Readings and Conversations series comes a new podcast episode featuring interdisciplinary composer Jami Reimer, who discusses her bioacoustic opera based on the metamorphic life of a frog, and Mi’kmaw storyteller shalan joudry, whose multilingual experimental work reflects on “grief, truth-seeking, and communal healing.”
For more information and to listen, visit our Podcast page.
Listen to our entire episode playlist on SoundCloud.
Une nouvelle lecture et conversation, avec Louise Dupré et Evelyne Gagnon
Écoutez cette lecture et conversation entre deux poètes francophones qui nous invitent à considérer les poèmes comme des « exercices de joie », de compassion, et d’empathie.
Apprenez-en davantage ici.
2025 Kreisel Lecture with David A. Robertson
Two-time Governor General's Literary Award-winning writer David A. Robertson gave the 19th annual Kreisel Lecture, "On Writing as Social Activism," in March 2025.
David's lecture will be published by University of Alberta Press in early 2026.
2024 Kreisel Lecture with Kate Beaton
Award-winning cartoonist and author Kate Beaton gave the 18th annual Kreisel Lecture, "Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour," in March 2024.
Kate's lecture is also available in print from
University of Alberta Press.
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