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  • On Writing Rooms

    On Writing Rooms

    I wrote about writing Rooms over at Kathryn Mockler’s Send My Love To Anyone. Read the post here!

    Sina

    June 22, 2022
    essay
  • Event: Calgary Launch of Rooms

    Shelf Life is hosting a Virtual Launch. I’m looking forward to talking to Kyle Flemmer, a former Concordia student. Register! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvc-CpqzsrG9OavwUn9dg7a2Rqkvm1XDgB

    Sina

    June 13, 2022
    Event
  • On Plath’s Lady Lazarus & I am No Lady, Lazarus

    On Plath’s Lady Lazarus & I am No Lady, Lazarus

    You’ll find my essay on working with Plath’s Ariel, here in particular the poem “Lady Lazarus” which among other things, I ran through a randomizer to create my version. Full essay over on LitHub and excerpted from “Sina Queyras on Sylvia Plath, ‘Lady Lazarus’” from The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems […]

    Sina

    April 27, 2022
    essay, Uncategorized
  • Coming May 31st

    From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a chair at Sina Queyras after they’d turned in an essay on […]

    Sina

    February 2, 2022
    publication, Uncategorized
    ARCS, new book
  • Introducing Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader

    Introducing Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader

    It’s my pleasure to announce the publication of this lovingly compiled and edited Nicole Brossard Reader from Coach House Books. I worked closely with Genevieve and Erin, but Alana Wilcox is the true Brossard champion and deserves so much applause and praise for the work she has done to bring vital feminist experimental voices–such as […]

    Sina

    September 2, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • And Now Coordinator

    And Now Coordinator

    I’m excited to serve as Coordinator of Concordia’s Creative Writing Program for the 2020-21 academic year. My writing and teaching have long reflected my interest in innovative texts and dynamic, embodied, and sustainable writing practices. My recent book, My Ariel, interrogates gendered power dynamics in literary circles and their impact on creative women’s lives, and my current SSHRC funded research creation […]

    Sina

    September 2, 2020
    news
  • In Conversation with Myra Bloom

    In Conversation with Myra Bloom

    MB: I wanted to get you to talk about the book a little bit in the context of lyric conceptualism. In “Lyric Conceptualism, A Manifesto in Progress,” you wrote, “The Lyric Conceptualist is not necessarily a feminine body but it has the stink of the impure, a certain irreverence for the master and therefore it […]

    Sina

    December 21, 2019
    Interview
  • Ongoing Mentorship

    I will be on sabbatical as of January 2022 & unable to take on any new students until January 2023. I’ll attach an email subscription very soon–I would like to have a sense of how many people will come. This list will also be used to update you on the next sessions and also send […]

    Sina

    September 12, 2019
    Uncategorized
  • Course Descriptions 2019-2020

    People have been asking me what I am teaching next year–here are the course descriptions. These are slightly different than what was posted in the actual calendar. Over the next year or two themes of discussion will include Literary Identities, how we see ourselves and our relationships to institutions and communities. Strategies of creative resistances […]

    Sina

    March 14, 2019
    teaching
  • Expressway Book Trailer

    Expressway Book Trailer

    I’ve been finding all sorts of documents and random files as I try to rebuild my own files after a series of  technical mishaps that may or may not have had anything to do with having twins a month before taking over directorship of Writers Read, publishing my first novel, and dealing with the ongoing […]

    Sina

    March 3, 2019
    archive, book trailer, comment
    archive, book trailer, update
  • On TeethMarks

    On TeethMarks

    Well, at least I am on point. I believe I did this interview around 2007. It concerns my second book, TeethMarks, published in 2004. The interview finally appeared in print in 2014. I just found this email in my trash. Why it seemed to drift to the top of my trash this week I have […]

    Sina

    February 28, 2019
    Interview
  • Merci Room of One’s Own

    I published my first (or second…) poem in Room Of Own’s Own some…omg…some…thirty years ago? Is that possible? Must be. I was chuffed then and I’m chuffed now with this review from Adele Barclay. Thanks Room, thanks, Adele, thanks to all who have read and read poetry and respond.

    Sina

    February 25, 2019
    Uncategorized
  • The Next Chapter

    In a marvel of editing, the CBC posted a little over three minutes on the process of writing My Ariel. This content is at least six months old. 2018 was a difficult year and I have not been able to adequately respond to anything publicly. I’m very aware. So I do appreciate the opportunity. Also […]

    Sina

    February 5, 2019
    Interview
  • On my rewrite of Plath’s “Cut”

    On my rewrite of Plath’s “Cut”

    This was fun. Talking with Al Filreis and (the lovely and amazing) Anna Safford earlier this year…during one of the busiest weeks of my fall season, which is partly why my New Years Resolution is better self care along with more activism from the large to the small. I’ve put the original version of Plath’s […]

    Sina

    January 1, 2019
    Interview
    modpo, my ariel, pennsound, Sylvia Plath
  • Thanks QWF! My Ariel wins the AM Klein Award for poetry.

    Thanks QWF! My Ariel wins the AM Klein Award for poetry.

    Sina

    December 11, 2018
    Event
  • In Conversation with the amazing Canisia Lubrin

    In Conversation with the amazing Canisia Lubrin

    Sina

    December 10, 2018
    Interview
  • from The Endurance

    ROLL CALL You who were not born in a boat. You who can not tread water. You who do not qualify for safe passage. You who are without a compass. You who cannot take the air between your hands and feel the ions of improbability. You who have not stepped out of the satin shadows. […]

    Sina

    June 20, 2018
    poem
  • Sylvia Plath’s Daddy

    Sylvia Plath’s Daddy

    Of all the poems to rewrite, or respond to, “Daddy” remains the most difficult (for me at least). It is its own ecosystem; it captures the range of traumas available to a young woman circa 1963 and onward, both inside and outside the house, the body, history. It enacts the repetitions of gendered trauma and […]

    Sina

    April 12, 2018
    comment, poem
    myariel, plath, writingprocess
  • My Ariel: Off Cuts

    My Ariel: Off Cuts

    Big as My Ariel is there was a lot more that didn’t go in. I will post a few here over the next few weeks.

    Sina

    April 11, 2018
    poem
    offcut
  • Thanks, Lambda, Wave to David & AWP

    Thanks, Lambda, Wave to David & AWP

    Waving to my friend David Groff, who was the one to tell me Lemon Hound won the Lambda back in 2007, and is here again, just sending me this photo from AWP, as I was writing this post with the news that My Ariel is also up for a Lambda. I have been nominated a […]

    Sina

    March 10, 2018
    news
  • Recommends for 2017

    I condensed my best of list for The Montreal Gazette. Here they are–

    Sina

    December 30, 2017
    Uncategorized
  • Lists, Reviews & Gratitude

    Lists, Reviews & Gratitude

    I have had reviews. I have had lists. I am unbelievably lucky. And, as I write this I am waiting to hear whether my sister’s pain meds have kicked in. She is in palliative care in Northern British Columbia. I went to see her in October, and it’s not likely I will get back to […]

    Sina

    December 20, 2017
    review
    my ariel
  • On Engaging with Sylvia Plath’s Ariel

    On Engaging with Sylvia Plath’s Ariel

    “Not long after I became a new mother of twins, campus sexual politics and accounts of sexual misconduct in the literary world arose ever closer in my sphere. I was angry on behalf of the many young women whose lives were affected – and by many of the responses around me. Then I became angry […]

    Sina

    December 19, 2017
    essay
    comment, my ariel, personal essay, quill and quire
  • Interview: MxT

    Interview: MxT

    Found this on the CBC. A radio interview from 2014 with the lovely & amazing Sonali Karnick. “Award-winning poet and professor Sina Queyras just published a pretty pink book about a dark topic. “MxT” deals with death and grief but in a lighter way with graphs and diagrams. 11:24.  //www.cbc.ca/i/caffeine/syndicate/?mediaId=2443930554

    Sina

    December 18, 2017
    audio, Interview, review
    archive, cbc, mxt, poetry
  • Poet’s House

    New York, I’ll be reading from My Ariel October 24 at Poet’s House. Come out if you can. Would love to see you all!

    Sina

    September 8, 2017
    news, reading
  • My Ariel

    My Ariel

    I caught the first copy of My Ariel as it slid off the glue machine a few weeks back. My son caught the second (see video below!). The book is alive and kicking–pub date is officially September 18th, which happens by chance to be my mother’s birthday. This is more relevant than I thought it […]

    Sina

    September 4, 2017
    publication
  • MxT wins ReLit

    MxT wins ReLit

    I can’t believe I didn’t post this–it was amazing news. I’m totally chuffed. Thanks to the judges, and to Kenneth J. Harvey for founding the prize. The company is stellar.

    Sina

    September 6, 2016
    news
    prize
  • Death & Co.

    The latest from My Ariel is up. Thanks to Mark Bibbins at The Awl. The dead bell, the dead bell Every Christ a clap of bad behaviour, Ballsy as Blake, a birthmark Of meat, a red frill of privilege. Baby eaters all, a sweet girl In a white cage. Such a useful future Looming, the men […]

    Sina

    March 16, 2016
    poem, publication
  • The Jailor

    The latest poem from my new Plath manuscript is up at The Walrus. Thanks to Damian Rogers for choosing it. If they look familiar, they should be: they are re-visions, ghostings, confrontations, and responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. “The Jailor,” The Walrus “I am no Lady, Lazarus,” Rusty Toque “Little Fugue,” The Awl “Thalidomide,” “The Rabbit Catcher,” The Malahat Review  “Couriers,” “Cut,” […]

    Sina

    December 17, 2015
    poem, publication
  • New Poems Up

    Several poems from My Ariel, my new manuscript, are up across the Internet. If they look familiar, they should be: they are re-visions, ghostings, confrontations, and responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel.  I’ll be writing more about the project (like why on earth, and are you insane?), but not until next summer, when I have some time to […]

    Sina

    November 13, 2015
    Uncategorized
  • MxT reviewed over at Poetry

    MxT generates its force through the perpetual denial of this promise. Over and over, the poems present a detached and clinical façade, only to have it break down or prove useless. For example, “A Manual for Remembering” instructs the reader on ways to encounter memory while remaining safe and insulated: “When remembering it is best […]

    Sina

    June 29, 2015
    Uncategorized
  • Sunday Poem: For Coach House

    Sunday Poem: For Coach House

    I feel the need to go back to the moment before I created Lemon Hound, the blog, which means, going back to the time of writing Lemon Hound, the book, a process that made me aware of my more vocal alter ego. Here she is, lounging confidently in an open window, on a bridge, in […]

    Sina

    May 29, 2015
    poem
    lemon hound, Lisa Robertson, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vermont
  • Montreal: Writers’ Paradise

    “The scene is increasingly diverse,” observed Queyras, director of Writers Read, a Concordia University series that invites established and emerging writers from Canada and abroad to give public readings as well as master’s classes. “There are more readings at bookstores like Drawn & Quarterly and Argo, and at galleries like VAV and Phi Centre. There […]

    Sina

    May 9, 2015
    Interview, Uncategorized
  • April Readings

    I’m on the move in April. Hope to see you at one of these events. BROOKLYN April 14th, 7pm Brooklyn Public Library with Tonya Foster & Erica Hunt 10 Grand Army Plz,Brooklyn Belladonna* Collaborative YALE April 16th 8pm The Graduate Poetry Reading Series: Yale Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), LC 319 63 High St. New Haven, CT […]

    Sina

    March 25, 2015
    Event
  • Reviews, Reviews, Reviews

    I am rich in reviews and so thankful for the close reading! The Bullcalf, Arc Magazine and The Kenyon Review. Ben Purkert makes a case for the elegy as selfie. Not what I intended, but he makes a compelling case. Not all elegies, however, are necessarily selfless. Some are self-addressed. Sina Queyras’s M x T […]

    Sina

    March 10, 2015
    review
  • Elska mína

    Originally posted on NewPoetry:
    Sina Queyras ? You created me, you should remember me; leaned your face into the canto of …..my birth and broke air with me, breathed your best, your unrest Into me even as you bled, and my father—a taut shock of muscle—caught me …..as an Eagle takes a trout. It was…

    Sina

    January 8, 2015
    poem, Uncategorized
  • Fall Dates: Montreal, Vancouver & Toronto

    Montreal: Atwater Library Friday, October 17: Sina Queyras and Ken Babstock Vancouver Writers Festival Friday, October 24, Waterfront Theatre, 10:00AM, Pure Poetry Kris Demeanor, Eve Joseph, Anne Kennedy, Christopher Levenson, Sina Queyras, Katherena Vermette Saturday, October 25 Performance Works, 8:00PM Poetry Bash: Ken Babstock,George Elliott Clarke, Billeh Nickerson, Sina Queyras, Katherena Vermette, Patricia Young Sunday, October 26 Waterfront Theatre, 1:30PM The Al Purdy Show: […]

    Sina

    August 17, 2014
    reading
  • Twitter Reviews of MxT

    Kathryn Mockler ‏@themockler Jul 24  Just finished MxT by Sina Queyras @lemonhound So good! Make sure you read this book! Stephen Burt @accommodatingly  ·  Jul 7 @sinaqueyras @coachhousebooks MxT! It’s passionately supergood, circuit diagrams & all. Hope to say so elsewhere soon.   Adam Dickinson ‏@AdamwDickinson Sina Queyras’s MxT is an ambitious and fully-realized work. […]

    Sina

    August 1, 2014
    review
    Twitter reviews
  • MRB on MxT

    Thanks to Bert Almon for the love. The great strength of the book is not in the apparatus – circuit diagrams, tutelary figures – but in the texture. Queyras employs many forms: prose poems, poems in stanzas, representations of postcards, aphorisms (“All mature poets understand the need for dry wood chips”), found poems, concrete poetry. The tour […]

    Sina

    August 1, 2014
    review
  • Rain Taxi on MxT

    While Queyras acknowledges the limitations of elegiac poetry, she also recognizes its power as a means of communing with the dead. For all its scientific apparatus, M x T is a book of deep feeling. Coming in the summer issue. Thanks so much.

    Sina

    August 1, 2014
    review
  • Malahat Review on MxT

    Thanks to Paul Franz for this astute review: The title M×T derives from what Queyras calls “Ohm’s Law of Grieving” (“Feeling = Memory × Time”), one of nine fanciful formulas and mechanical models for representing grief. Crucially, Queyras presents her ambivalence—between the self-contained electric circuit and oceanic openness—as a real one. Her notion of a […]

    Sina

    August 1, 2014
    review
  • Globe & Mail on MxT

    Globe & Mail, April 25th, The lush vehemence of Sina Queyras’s new poetry collection M x T is as in-your-face as its crazy-pink cover. These poems issue the high-voltage lyric force of mourning songs while bracing themselves against our shuddering in response. Each text is an analogue of how grief convulses through us but – […]

    Sina

    August 1, 2014
    review
  • Talking with Mark Medley

     May 6, 2014 7:00 AM ET More from Mark Medley | @itsmarkmedley Peter J. Thompson/National Post It should come as no surprise that Queyras is critical of her own work, considering that, despite her insistence that she’s “not really a critic,” she has evolved into one of the country’s loudest critical voices, with a platform […]

    Sina

    July 31, 2014
    Interview
  • Shannon Webb-Campbell on MxT

    MxT by Sina Queyras By Shannon Webb-Campbell Telegraph-Journal April 25 2014 Nothing is large enough to hold grief. Even language fails to contain it. Sina Queyras proposes a formula for grieving in her latest collection MxT, or Memory x Time, what could be this year’s most devastating and enlightening Canadian poetry collection. Known as Lemon […]

    Sina

    April 26, 2014
    review, Uncategorized
  • Thanks Publishers Weekly

    ‘Poetry succeeds where science fails to measure grief in this brilliant new collection by the esteemed Queyras.’ –Publishers Weekly, Spring Round Up, January 24, 2014

    Sina

    February 7, 2014
    review
  • Day 4, Meditations in an Emergency

    www.instagram.com/p/B9y5kBVgKuw/ Day 4 It was a lot of effort to get this light in our house, and to have my desk in this position to receive it. I’m grateful for every moment of it. Pups are having breakfast in bed. Homeschooling will being at 9. I was reading a piece in the New York Times […]

    Sina

    March 20, 2020
    comment, essay
  • In Conversation

    In Conversation

    Tonight Sue Goyette, Larissa Lai and Sue Sinclair will read followed by a conversation.

    Sina

    December 5, 2019
    Event
    in conversation
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