Friday, September 08, 2006

Souaid, Carolyn Marie, Montreal, QC

Carolyn Marie Souaid is a teacher, book reviewer, and the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has been produced for CBC-Radio, and has been published both nationally and internationally. She has appeared at many literary festivals across Canada. More recently, she has become involved in projects aimed at moving poetry off the page and into public spaces. She is the co-producer of two major Montreal events: Poésie en mouvement / Poetry in Motion (the poetry-on-the-buses project, 2004) and Cirque des mots / Circus of Words, a multilingual cabaret of performance poetry (2005). Carolyn Marie has been a guest on Global TV, CBC Radio (This Morning, Arttalks, Home Run, All in a Weekend) and on TVO’s More To Life. A French translation of Snow Formations, her meditation on the intersecting worlds of natives and non-natives in Arctic Quebec, is forthcoming from Les Éditions Triptyque in 2006.

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