It is a great privilege for us to host these poets. Meeting these people "in the flesh" and finding out from the writers’ own lips about their working style, their influences, their hopes, and their struggles has been enormously exciting and encouraging, not least to our Creative Writing students.
These poets have typically come on a Thursday afternoon, given a reading of their poetry, signed their books, and interacted in question-and-answer sessions with students, professors, and others from the community. Some of the visiting poets have been extremely helpful in providing links to publishers, graduate programs, and other reading series, and even in offering advice on an individual basis to budding poets at Redeemer.
We very much hope that this series will continue as a fruitful partnership with HPC and the Canada Council for years to come!