Public Presentation: Elee Kralji Gardiner - “Readings from ‘Serpentine Loop’”

Date:
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
UNBC Terrace Campus (4837 Keith Avenue), Room 103/104

Elee Kralji Gardiner (Poet)

Present

“Readings from ‘Serpentine Loop’”


Writers, like skaters, score the blank sheet and test the edge of inclusion and exclusion. Most of these poems begin with a word from skating and push off to another topic. Others revisit ideas of femininity, control, and language as pattern, or visit the past through movement, or enact principles from the rink such as symmetry, joy, endurance, crescendo and accent, revolution, response.
The blade melts ice via friction and pressure. Even though the author drifted away from skating, the language was imprinted in her — a tracing, a line extending beyond the margins.
These are engaging and poignant poems about life on and off the ice.

Livestream available at the UNBC Northwest Livestream Channel

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