Poetry

Pick the door with knots

About the Poets

Brian Bartlett is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Watchmaker’s Table and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, which was published in both Canada and Britain, and received the Atlantic Poetry Prize. He has also edited three books of selected poems: Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski, The Essential James Reaney, and The Essential Robert Gibbs. Since 1990, has taught creative writing and literature at Saint Mary’s University. He is currently trying to find publishers for two manuscripts: a gathering of seven long poems all in the form of “haiku montages,” and a prose “book of days,” 366 paragraphs of nature writing (one for each day of the year, including an extra for leap years).

Carole Glasser Langille’s most recent book, Church of the Exquisite Panic: The Ophelia Poems, was published in the fall of 2012. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, When I Always Wanted Something. Six poems from her book Late in a Slow Time, were put to music by Chan Ka Nin and recorded by Duo Concertante. She teaches Creative Writing: Poetry at Dalhousie University.

Past Poetry Events

Look with your ears: An evening of poetry with Alyda Faber and Maryann Martin

Thursday, February 7, 2013, in the AST Library

‌‌About the poets

Alyda Faber read from a manuscript entitled "Leeuwarden Train Station." She teaches theology and ethics at AST and has published poetry in Canadian and Dutch literary magazines.

Maryann Martin writes poetry and fiction informed by her travels within Canada and overseas. Living and writing in Halifax, she works a day job in university administration at the Atlantic School of Theology. In addition to two poetry courses with Brian Bartlett at Saint Mary's University, she has taken workshops with local poets and has recently won 2nd Prize for poetry in the 35th Atlantic Writing Competition. She enjoys writing for adults and children but writing bios . . . not so much.

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