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Angeline Schellenberg, dee Hobsbawn-Smith, and Joanne Epp Poetry Reading

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Join Angeline Schellenberg (Mondegreen Riffs, At Bay Press), dee Hobsbawn-Smith (Among the Untamed, Frontenac House Ltd), and Joanne Epp (Cattail Skyline, Turnstone Press) for an evening of poetry.

This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Angeline Schellenberg is a Winnipeg poet, photographer, contemplative spiritual director, open-mic host, and the author of three books: the Manitoba Book Award-winning linked poems about autism, Tell Them It Was Mozart (Brick Books, 2016); the KOBZAR-nominated Mennonite elegy collection, Fields of Light and Stone (UAP, 2020); and the synapse-muddling Mondegreen Riffs (At Bay Press), one of the Winnipeg Free Press reviewers’ Best Books of 2024.

Award-winning essayist, poet, fictionist, Red Seal chef, and food writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith lives west of Saskatoon. She’s published ten books, and served as Saskatchewan’s 10th Poet Laureate and Saskatoon Public Library’s 35th Writer in Residence. Called an educator “blessed with whimsy and precision,” she’s taught thousands of adults and kids to cook. Most recently, Among the Untamed received Saskatchewan Book Awards’ 2024 Poetry Award. Bread & Water: essays won Saskatchewan Book Awards’ 2022 Nonfiction Award, and Taste Canada’s Gold Medal for Culinary Narratives; it’s also Saskatchewan Library Association’s 2025 One Book One Province selection. She loves running, gardening, period dramas, and yoga, and hopes to learn how to play her guitar before she turns eighty.

Joanne Epp is the author of two poetry collections with Turnstone Press: Eigenheim (2015), an exploration of home, memory, and longing; and Cattail Skyline (2021), an intimate look at landscapes where she has lived and travelled, which was nominated for the Landsdowne Prize for Poetry. She is also co-translator, with Sally Ito and Sarah Klassen, of the award-winning Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (2023). Born in Saskatchewan, she now lives near the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg.



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