Cecily NicholsonPoet Cecily Nicholson will conduct a public online reading as her inaugural event as UWindsor writer-in-residence on Monday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m.

Reading to introduce writer-in-residence to campus

Poet Cecily Nicholson will conduct a public online reading from her work as her inaugural activity as UWindsor writer-in-residence at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22.

Attend the event live through the Microsoft Teams videoconference platform. Admission is free and accessible through any web browser.

Nicholson is the author of the poetry books Triage and From the Poplars, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her most recent work, Wayside Sang, which considers the trajectories of her birth father and his labour in the Windsor-Detroit area, won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language poetry.

Learn more about the writer-in-residence program hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing.

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