ACCUTE members are welcome to attend a forum with poetry readings and statements of poetics on the theme of energy and/or extraction by poets Jennifer Wickham, Nduka Otiono, Rita Wong, Lindsay Bird, and Adam Dickinson. The event is held in preparation for a special issue of Canadian Literature on “Poetics and Extraction” and is hosted by Dr. Warren Cariou (University of Manitoba), Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau (UMIH affiliate), and Dr. Max Karpinski (University of Toronto Mississauga). To register to attend, please email UMIH@umanitoba.ca.

The event will take place on Thursday, 27 October 2022, at 7 p.m. EDT / 6 p.m. CDT

This is the second Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction; the first forum was held in March 2022. A recording of the first forum, with readings and statements by Kazim Ali, Madhur Anand, Lesley Battler, Warren Cariou, Cecily Nicholson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough, is available here.