Spring Literary Festival
May 9 – 13, 2011
Great Hall, Canadian Mennonite University
All evening events begin at 7:00 p.m.
May 9th – Charlene Diehl, Ian Ross, Deborah Schnitzer
May 10th – Di Brant, Diane Riedger, Joanne Epp & Sarah Klassen
May 11th – Marina Endicott, Christina Penner, Lloyd Ratzlaff
May 13th – Warren Cariou
All events are open to the public. For more information, go to: CMU
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Brandon Launch of Di Brandt’s Walking to Mojácar, with Marilyn Dumont
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Di Brandt’s highly anticipated new poetry collection, Walking to Mojácar, is a vivid and exquisitely-crafted multilingual work featuring different cultural and geographic landscapes and languages, in poetic dialogue. The languages of science and apocalypse yield a witty reflection on love in the Canadian prairies, with a …
Prairie Fire Presents: Home Place: Writing From Around Manitoba

Home Place: Writing From Around Manitoba
Friday November 12, 7:00 pm
Grant Park in the Travel Alcove
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