Carmine Starnino - Authors @ Acadia
The Department of English & Theatre is pleased to present Carmine Starnino as part our Authors @ Acadia Series
Friday, October 19, 2012 4:00 p.m. Vaughan Quiet Reading Room
Booklaunch of Lazy Bastardism, a new collection of essays on Canadian literature by Gaspereau Press (regarding the role of boredom in the creative process). Reading, Q & A, book signing. A Wayzgoose event.
Carmine Starnino has published three critically-acclaimed books of poetry: The New World (1997), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the QSPELL Prize for Poetry and was chosen as one of Quill & Quire's Best Books of 1997; Credo (2000) which won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and the David McKeen Award; and With English Subtitles (2004) which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. He is an associate editor at Maisonneuve magazine and Books in Canada, and serves as poetry editor for Véhicule Press. He has also published A Lover's Quarrel, which collected his reviews and essays on Canadian poetry, and The New Canon, a new anthology of fifty Canadian poets.