Celebrating National Poetry Month with the local community

Brock students Lauren Bertone, Timothy Patton, and Biljana Vasilevska joined Associate Professor Adam Dickinson in celebrating National Poetry Month with the Canadian Authors in Action Niagara Branch at St. Catharines Public Library on April 3. The annual event honours the organization's contest winners and celebrates local poets. Bertone, Patton and Vasilevska are all students in the Department of English’s Creative Writing program. Vasilevska is also a Brock employee, putting her writing skills to use on grant applications in the Office of Research Services. This was the first time the students read their poetry in public. Dickinson teaches creative writing and poetics and is the author of four books of poetry; His latest, Anatomic, has been long-listed for an award from the Canadian League of Poets.