In Dialogue: Sally Ito and Erin Mouré
7:30pm, Winnipeg Free Press News Café
Corner of McDermot and Arthur in the Exchange District
Winnipeg, MB
The Manitoba Writers’ Guild's In Dialogue reading series (formerly Yellow Dog reading series) features 20-minute readings by two authors, followed by a conversation illuminating the lives and work of the featured writers. All readings start at 7:30 pm and take place at the Winnipeg Free Press News Café (corner of McDermot and Arthur in the Exchange District).
Born in Taber, Alberta, Sally Ito is a writer, editor, and translator living in Winnipeg with her husband and two children. Currently, she is an instructor of Creative Writing and a blog contributor to a children’s multicultural literature blog, PaperTigers. To express a deep abiding love for things ‘visible and invisible’ is what she aspires to in writing her poetry; failing and yet ever striving is the process through which she hopes one day to arrive.
Erín Moure is a Montreal poet who writes in English, multilingually. In her recent O Resplandor and—in collaboration with Oana Avasilichioaei—Expeditions of a Chimæra, poetry is hybrid, and emerges from or in translation and collaboration. Erín Moure also translates poetry into English, from several romance languages, and has signed translations of Quebec poets Nicole Brossard (with Robert Majzels) and Louise Dupré from French, Galician poet Chus Pato from Galician, and Chilean Andrés Ajens from Spanish, as well as Fernando Pessoa from Portuguese. Her essays on reading and writing, My Beloved Wager, appeared in 2009. She performs and speaks nationally and internationally on poetry and translation. Her newest poetry, an investigation into subjectivity, immigration and the western borderlands of Ukraine, The Unmemntioable, will appear from Anansi in February 2012.