Place | Café Bar Sans Frontier

240a dufferin

We are happy to announce our live poetry series this summer. Our first event will be held at 7 pm on June 2nd at Cafe Bar sans Frontiere, 240 Dufferin, Stanstead.   Subjects may include taxis, strong tea, childrearing, and McCain Deep-N-Delicious Frozen Cake. Friday, June 2, 7 pm, 240 Rue Dufferin, Stanstead, Quebec. Hosted by Derek Webster   Your Poets: Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015); and Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022) which won the 2022 National Jewish Book award. He runs a manuscript consultation service at www.seansingerpoetry.com   Sarah Venart is the author of I am the Big Heart, winner of the 2021 AM Klein Award and listed for the Relit Award. Her poems have been published in Canada, the US, and the UK. She lives in Montreal and teaches at John Abbott College. www.sarahvenart.com   Harold Hoefle's debut collection The Night Chorus was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2018. He teaches English and Creative Writing at John Abbott College in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. www.mqup.ca/night-chorus--the-products-9780773554924.php   Melanie Power is a Montreal-based writer from St. John’s, Newfoundland, and the author of Full Moon of Afraid and Craving, published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2022. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Concordia University. www.melaniedpower.com   Derek Webster (host) is the author of Mockingbird (Signal), finalist for the 2016 Gerald Lampert Award for best poetry debut. His second collection National Animal appears in Spring 2024. https://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550654264   Event free. Books for sale on site.   For more on the Stanstead Arts Centre: https://centredesartsdestanstead.com/   Entry is free, Donations welcome