Ross Leckie Featured Poet at Odd Sundays

Sunday, January 21 at 2 pm
Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured reader, Ross Leckie was born in Lachine, Quebec, and has lived in Montreal, Toronto and Prince George. He is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, and Editor of The Fiddlehead. Leckie’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Landmarks (2001) and Why I Sing the Blues (2001). He is the author of three collections of poetry: Gravity's Plumb Line (Gaspereau Press, 2005), The Authority of Roses (1997) and A Slow Light (1983). In a review of Gravity’s Plumb Line, Eric Marks says: “Leckie deftly balances lyricism and precision in these poems, many of which explore New Brunswick’s sense of place. The poems in Gravity’s Plumb Line are musical, not simply in sound, but in style. Formal and mannered, but never stilted, they sing with a creativity that is expertly controlled.”

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

2007 Program

Feb 4 Shari Andrews
Feb 18 Betty Ponder
Mar 4 Mark Jarman
Mar 18 Robert Gibbs
Apr 1 Lynn Davies
Apr 15 Anne Compton
May 6 Nela Rio
May 20 Sharon McCartney

Join us at 2 pm on January 21, at Molly’s Coffee House for an afternoon engaged in the literary arts. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. New Brunswick: Canada’s poetry province!