Campus poet to conduct public reading

Susan Holbrook, associate professor in the Department of English Language, Literature and Creative Writing and a 2011/12 fellow of the Humanities Research Group, will read from her own poetry on Wednesday, March 28.

“Gest: a poetry reading” is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed Orman Centre. Sponsored by the Humanities Research Group, it is free and open to the public; a reception will follow.

Holbrook’s poetry books are the Trillium-nominated Joy Is So Exhausting, Good Egg Bad Seed and misled, which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award. She co-edited 2010’s The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation.