Poetry Reading with Cory Lavender & E Alex Pierce | Nov 16 | Port Joli

Cory Lavender is a poet of African Nova Scotian and European descent living in the Kespukwitk district of Mi’kma’ki (Southwest Nova Scotia). His new book, Come One Thing Another from Gaspereau Press contains larger-than-life characters and stories that assert the experiences of generations of Lavenders and Roys as a kind of rural epic, transposing ordinary occurrences into the ageless framework of myth and its preoccupation with metamorphosis. Colloquial, humorous, exuberant, shot through with reverie, these poems are carefully-crafted oratory, love songs for a vibrant heritage.

E. Alex Pierce is the author of two poetry collections, To float, to drown… (University of Alberta Press, 2020), and Vox Humana (Brick Books, 2011) She edited two anthologies for Boularderie Island Press, Salt and Wild, Shelburne County Anthology, with Susan Hoover, and Aubade: Poetry and Prose from Nova Scotia Writers. Alex lives at East Sable River with a saltmarsh and tidal creek well-hidden behind her house.

Admission is free, everyone is welcome. Books for sale, refreshments provided.

Port Joli Hall | 10032 Truck 3 Hwy – Exit 22 from Hwy 103