Date & time
Thursday, October 30, 2025
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Arts & culture
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Writers Read Presents Lynn Kozak
Cost
This event is free.
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Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
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Writers Read welcomes Lynn Kozak for a performance and discussion of their research on ancient Greek texts, serial poetics.
Lynn Kozak will perform Demeter. Anonymously composed some time in the 7th or 6th century BCE from a long oral tradition, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter tells the harrowing story of Hades' abduction of Demeter's daughter Persephone, and Demeter's incredible grief and grit as she works to get her daughter back. In Demeter, Lynn Kozak performs an all-new, partially-improvised contemporary English translation, directed by Joseph Shragge.
Content warning: Sexual assault, abduction, forced marriage, famine
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Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
Speaker
Lynn Kozak
Lynn Kozak is an associate professor at McGill University, working on ancient Greek literature and performance as well on contemporary media, with interests in horror, queer studies, and poetics. They have performed at the Montréal Fringe Festival, the Festival interculturel du conte de Montréal, the Off-side Festival, and in venues around Montréal. In 2018, they performed the whole Iliad over 29 weeks at the Bar des Pins, available on youtube at Previously on the Iliad.