A reading in honour of Ken Probert!

All who knew Ken are cordially invited to a literary reading at the University Club on Friday, March 23rd, beginning at 3:30. All who knew Ken quickly learned that he loved literature and that he was a keen social creature, so an event that combines both is a fitting tribute. In his years as a professor at the University of Regina, he organized many literary readings at the university and in the community and never failed to support writers and writing.

Please join the Humanities Research Institute as we remember Ken and his contributions to our campus and to Saskatchewan and Canadian literary
culture.

Refreshments and food provided by the HRI. Reading will be award-winning authors Jeanette Lynes and Kathleen Wall.

This event is co-sponsored by the HRI, the Canada Council, and St.Peter’s College (Muenster).

Jeanette Lynes is the author of five collections of poetry and a novel. Her most recent books of poetry are The New Blue Distance and It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems. Her poetry won the 2010 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Award from The New Quarterly and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. She has also received the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize and been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Jeanette’s novel, The Factory Voice, was longlisted for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize. Her writing has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada and abroad, and her work has also been featured on CBC Radio. Jeanette has been a visiting writer at Queen’s University, Kingston (2008; Department of Gender Studies) and the University of Manitoba. She was Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at Princeton University in 2003, Writer in Residence at Saskatoon Public Library (2005-2006)and Northern Lights College, Dawson Creek, B.C. (Summer 2005), and at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver (2011). Currently, Jeanette is Coordinator of the new MFA in Writing at the University of Saskatchewan.

Kathleen Wall is an award-winning scholar and author of two books of poetry and a novel and is Professor of English at the University of Regina. Her poetry collection Time’s Body won a Major Manuscript Award for poetry from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. Her novel, Blue Duets, published by Brindle and Glass in 2010. As a scholar she has published widely on writers as varied as Ishiguro, Woolf, Kroetsch, Atwood and Munro; most recently, her essay on Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room was reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of the novel. She iscurrently working on a book on Virginia Woolf’s aesthetics. In 2001, she won the University of Regina Alumni Award for teaching.