Poet Chantal Lavoie speaking at Nipissing

Nipissing University welcomes poet Chantal Lavoie to campus for a special presentation, titled Where the Terror Lies: the Poetry of Chantal Lavoie, on Thursday, February 13, from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. in room H104.Lavoie teaches in the English Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, where she specializes in eighteenth-century literature and women writers. Her academic book, Collecting Women: Poetry and Lives, 1700-1770, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2009. Currently she is working on women and boys in literature, both early modern and children`s literature. In addition to having placed poems in various journals, she published a book of verse titled
Where the Terror Lies in 2011 with Quattro Books Press.
The event is presented by Nipissing’s English Studies’ Seventh Annual Speakers Series.
Admission is free and all are welcome.