A Poet Talks about Poetry, a chat with writer Kate Marshall Flaherty

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm UTC-05:00

Room 105, John M. Kelly Library (University of St. Michael's College) | Toronto

University of St. Michael's College
Publisher/HostUniversity of St. Michael's College
A Poet Talks about Poetry, a chat with writer Kate Marshall Flaherty
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The Friends of the Kelly Library invite you to a conversation with Canadian writer Kate Marshall Flaherty (SMC 8T6).
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Join us for an engaging conversation with Kate Marshall Flaherty (SMC 8T6). Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni (SMC 7T0), President Emerita of the Friends of the Kelly Library and a fellow writer, will be our special host for the evening. This gathering will take place on Thursday, November 7, 2024, from 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in Room 105 of the J.M. Kelly Library, located at 113 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3C2. RSVP below today!


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Kate Marshall Flaherty

A graduate of St Michael's College, and longtime facilitator for University of St Michael’s College’s Continuing Education programmes, Kate Marshall Flaherty has seven poetry books, including “Reaching V,” Guernica Editions and “Digging,” Aeolus House. She won the 2018 Film and Poetry Symposium Award for her video-poems set to music, was shortlisted for the Mitchell Poetry Prize 2021 and Arc’s Poem of the Year 2022, and has been published in CV2, Vallum, Grain, Room, Trinity Review, The Literary Review of Canada, Event and Tamarack Review. She was writer in Residence at the Heliconian Arts and Letter Club last year and fostered many collaborations of poetry with music, art and dance. She writes spontaneous "Poems of the Extraordinary Moment" (P.O.E.M.s) for charity, in person and online, and guides StillPoint Writing and Poetry Editing Circles online and in person. See her performance poetry at https://katemarshallflaherty.ca.

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Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni

Caroline spent her early years in Havertown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. She arrived in Toronto in 1966 to attend University of St Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, graduating with a B.A. in English Language and Literature, then studied for two years at Tufts University in Massachusetts for a Master’s degree in Drama. In July, 1972, she married Alberto Di Giovanni and returned to Toronto permanently. Together they worked with the emerging Italian Canadian community with involvement in education, social action, political representation, and literary projects. She served as a Trustee on the Catholic School Board in Toronto for 10 years, 2 years as Chair. She also was on Metro Council for 1 term, until amalgamation. During these years, she continued her lifelong practice of writing poetry. Her books include “Looking at Renaissance Paintings and Other Poems” (2008); “Second Collection” (2013); “Portrait Gallery” (2021); and “Poems for Two Worlds/ Poesie per due mondi” (2021). She edited two editions of Italian Canadian Voices: An anthology of Poetry and Prose (1984) and Italian Canadian Voices: a literary anthology (2006) as well as Bravo! A selection of Prose and Poetry by Italian Canadian Writers (2012). She was a third co-editor of the anthology People, Places, Passages (2018). Her poems have appeared in other publications, including three of the Brownstone Poets Anthologies (2022; 23; 24). She enjoys writing poems for her children and grandchildren. Caroline and Alberto were named Honorary Fellows of the University of St. Michael’s College (2014). She was President of the Friends of the John M. Kelly Library from 2004 to 2022. She was a Board Member of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra for 6 years.



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