Créatique: Researcher-artists Reading and Conversing

Join us for the fourth in a series of intimate events that will feature readings and conversations with PhD students, alumni, and postdoctoral research fellows, at Concordia University who have both creative writing and research practices.

Held in the Richler Library seminar room (capacity 30ish people), each Créatique event will feature two participants reading from their creative work and talking in whatever way they wish about the relationship between their creative and critical work and practice.

Melanie Power is a first-year PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities, and the author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022). Her work has been shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. Other poems of hers have appeared in The Malahat Review, Grain, Poetry Ireland Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Critical work has been featured in Maisonneuve, Canadian Literature, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. Her current project focuses on sociological and personally-situated interpretations of place, home, and belonging, investigated through the fields of literature, cultural geography, and oral histories, primarily within an Atlantic Canadian context.

Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working with ecological imagination. Her debut collection of poetry, Rag Cosmology, won the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, and she is the author of Liquidity (House House Press, 2020) and Wet Dream (Brick Books, 2022). A Humanities PhD student at Concordia, Erin’s research-creation work focuses on feminist, queer, decolonial poetry/poetics and ecologies. With scholar and place-based educator Michael Datura, she co-organized a Geopoetics Symposium & Residency on Cortes Island in spring 2022, bringing together poets, scholars, activists and place-based educators around questions of thinking and creating with the more-than-human world. Collaborative performance works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller include This ritual is not an accident; Facing away from that which is coming; revolutions and Polymorphic Microbe Bodies. Originally from Cortes Island, Erin is grateful to make her home in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.