Ken Babstock and Jan Conn to read at UNB

Poets Ken Babstock and Jan Conn will be giving a reading at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. The reading will take place on Monday, March 19 at 8:00 pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Ken Babstock is widely recognized as one of the most important young poets writing in Canada today. He is the author of three books of poetry, Mean, Days into Flatspin, and, most recently, Airstream Land Yacht. His poetry has received numerous awards including the National Magazine Award for Poetry, the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Prize and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. He is currently the poetry editor for Toronto’s House of Anansi Press.

Jan Conn is the author of six books of poetry. Her latest, Jaguar Rain, focuses on the Amazonian botanical illustrator, naturalist and explorer, Margaret Mee. She holds a Ph.D in Genetics and currently works as a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York State Department of Health in Albany, New York.

The reading is sponsored by UNBF’s department of English, the University Bookstore and the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information on the reading, feel free to contact Ross Leckie at 458-7395.