March 25, 2026
A few spots are still available for the Stuart Ross workshop, details below.
THE GREAT POETRY HEISTSunday April 26, 2026 at 1 - 3 p.m. ET, via zoom
Stuart Ross offers a fun and productive workshop for poets at all levels of
experience. We will explore strategies for mining the works of contemporary
poets to create our own poems, employing a range of strategies involving
ethical thievery, faux translation, ruthless erasure, unconscious collaboration,
and affectionate imitation. Arrive with an open mind and leave with a heap
of new poems unlike any you’ve written before.
Stuart Ross is the author of 23 full-length books, most recently the poetry
collection The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky, the Trillium Book Award–winning
memoir The Book of Grief and Hamburgers, and the short story collection
I Am Claude François and You Are a Bathtub. He has received the Canadian
Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction, as
well as the Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian
literature. Stuart has led scores of workshops in Canada, Chile, and the
U.S., and has taught at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
for a decade. He was writer in residence at Queen’s University and the
University of Ottawa and has mentored at the Banff Centre. Stuart lives
in Cobourg, Ontario, just down the highway from Ameliasburgh.
To register for the class send an e-transfer for $20 to
info@alpurdy.caEnrollment is limited.
Canadian Gothic
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