poetry

Sina Queyras has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry!

At a morning announcement on Wednesday, October 15, finalists for the Governor General's Literary Award were announced. Sina Queyras's Expressway was one of the poetry finalists. Other finalists wee David McFadden, Philip Kevin Paul, Carmine Starnino and David Zieorth.

Montreal Mirror catches up with Sina Queyras a week before the Coach House spring poetry launch in Montreal:

Sina Queyras on alienation, poetry, queer sexuality and car culture (the latter is the subject of her new collection, Expressway) in this week's Xtra!:

'It's easy to spot Sina Queyras in a crowd. She's the one standing on the fringes of the group, fiddling with her camera or writing in a notebook. "I am usually marked as 'outsider,' she says — an observation that feeds into her poetry.

Sina Queyras (Expressway) discusses the correspondent tensions between tradition and innovation in poetry and society in this week's FFWD:

Folks everywhere are gearing up for the publication of Sina Queyras's Expressway, which hits the road at AWP Chicago this month before cruising to Calgary for two events with Lisa Robertson, who unleashes Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip.