Please join us for the latest event in George Elliott Clarke’s 5 Poets Breaking into Song. The mightiest songs? Poetry put to music and sung! Throughout this series, George Elliott Clarke, former Poet Laureate of Canada, has commissioned 8 composers to transform 90+ Canadian poems into art-songs of all genres. Come and hear live performances of 12 songs by 7 composers, with introductory readings by some of the poets. 3 songs will be debuted at this event!
This event offers the most optimal pairing of music and poetry that you will ever experience. And it's FREE!
Please check out The New Quarterly’s interview with George Elliott Clarke (Launching March 5th)
Performers: Drew Aarssen, Josiah Ropp, Natalia Sawyer, Lindsay Scott, Chloe Shantz, Isabel Song, Ye Yi
Featuring poetry by: Lamees Al Ethari, Leonard Cohen, George Elliott Clarke, Ehab Lotayef, Leilah Nadir, Mansour Noorbakhsh, Giovanna Riccio
Composers: Holly Arsenault, Eddie Bullen, Emily Hiemstra, D. D. Jackson, Juliet Palmer, Nevawn Patrick, David Jaeger
Event Sponsors: George Elliott Clarke; St. Jerome’s University – Department of English; University of Waterloo – Department of English; Conrad Grebel University; The New Quarterly