Sarah Klassen featured poet at Speaking Crow poetry series
Tuesday, March 6, 7:00 pm
Pop Soda's Coffeehouse and Gallery
625 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Acclaimed fiction writer (The Peony Season), poet (Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love, Dangerous Elements, Journey to Yalta,); and editor (Poets in the Classroom), Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg, and currently resides there. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Winnipeg. Aside from writing, she has taught English in the public school system in Winnipeg, and at summer institutes in Lithuania and Ukraine.
Sarah Klassen's newest collection of poetry, Monstrance, is forthcoming with Turnstone Press (April 2012).
About Monstrance:
With intellectual energy and soul-searching challenges, Sarah Klassen takes the reader on an unforgettable journey in her new poetry collection, Monstrance. Compelling and engaging prose-poems unfold inspired by Klassen’s unsettling, stimulating and wonderful experiences in Israel/ Palestine and Lithuania, as well as life at home. Combined with reflections on nature, the poems explore the ongoing challenge of how to live in this world with compassion, hope and faith. Nature and personal experience, beyond what media and books can convey, bring together both the spiritual and physical dimensions of living in this conflicted world. Remaining firmly grounded in reality, Klassen seeks enlightenment and higher understanding of humanity through moments of clarity.