Join poets Laurie Lynn Muirhead (Coyote Snow, Wild Skies Press) and Kim Mannix (Confirm Humanity, Wild Skies Press) for a joint launch of their new collections.
This event will be held in the Travel Alcove and available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.
These prairie writers find their poems unified within themes of nature, womanhood, and connection in an isolating world - both using striking language and lyricism to make you feel every lingering emotion with them.
Step into the wild and sacred landscape of North Central Saskatchewan through Laurie Lynn Muirhead’s emotionally charged poetry collection, Coyote Snow. With exquisite lyricism and a reverent eye, Muirhead captures the fierce beauty and fragile rhythms of a life entwined with the land, animals, and elemental forces. These poems are both a meditation and a reckoning - where cold meets spirit, survival meets grace, and readers find themselves transformed by the quiet miracles of the natural world. Don your winter boots and prepare to journey through the frosty, organic terrain of Coyote Snow. Muirhead’s poetry shines as a rising star in the constellation of rural Canadian literature.
The poems in Confirm Humanity are often juxtapositions between life’s joyful moments and the inevitably sorrowful. With a background in journalism, Kim Mannix’s perspective frequently comes from a place of observation; asking why people do the maddening things they do, and what, if anything, is the solution? The writing touches on the darkness of humanity, and the ways we - as citizens, women, mothers - learn to endure and persevere in light. There is awe for the natural world, but also cynicism and grief about how humans interact with the earth and one another. Like the box on a website that asks you to click to confirm you are human, these poems collectively ask their reader to consider the complexity of human emotion and action in this mysterious, maddening, and ultimately beautiful world.
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