Join host Paula Eisenstein October 19 for the launch of the Village Reading Series at 2pm at 1SOMETHING8 PROJECTS, 168 Tilley Road, Gagetown.
Our readers will be poets Jennifer Houle, Ian Letourneau and Paula, who will double as both host and reader.
The event will take place on the closing day of visual artist Larry Eisenstein’s exhibition at 1SOMETHING8 PROJECTS. Plans are in the works for future Village Reading Series events in conjunction with 1SOMETHING8 PROJECTS art exhibits curated by Larry Eisenstein.
JENNIFER HOULE began publishing in Canadian literary journals in 2005, and is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, The Back Channels and Virga (Signature Editions). In 2017, The Back Channels won the J.M. Abraham East Coast Literary Award for best collection of poetry and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. In 2020, Virga received the Fiddlehead Poetry Prize from the New Brunswick Book Awards. Her first children’s book, Un logis pour Molly/A Home for Molly was published by Éditions Bouton d’Or Acadie in summer of 2022 in both English and French. A life-long Maritimer, she lives in Hanwell, New Brunswick.
IAN LETOURNEAU is the author of the poetry collections metadate from a changing climate (2025), and Terminal Moraine (2008) as well as two chapbooks, Defining Range (2006) and Core Sample (2017). From 2016-2018, he was the City of Fredericton’s Cultural Laureate. By day he is the Managing Editor of The Fiddlehead and Studies in Canadian Literature, and by night he is publisher of the chapbook press Emergency Flash Mob Press. He lives in Fredericton, NB.
PAULA EISENSTEIN is the author of the novel Flip Turn (2012) from Mansfield Press and the poetry chapbook Flight Problems: Amelia Earhart Poems (2024) published by Pinhole Poetry. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and literary magazines including The Puritan and filling Station. She lives in Gagetown, NB.
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