Please join Poetry Matters in the Colgate Room (Rare Books and Special Collections, fourth floor of McLennan Library Building) for a panel conversation on Trinidad-born Barbara Althea Jones, a still underrecognized poet and geneticist who was a professor at McGill in the late 1960s. The session will address emergent research on Jones in the contexts of poetry, performance, the Caribbean diaspora, and Black politics of the Montreal 1960s. The session will feature materials from Jones’s papers, housed at McGill University Archives. Panelists include Professor Nalini Mohabir (Geography, Concordia), Professor Alison Donnell (Humanities, University of Bristol), and Jayda Smith (U2) and Avryl Bender (U3) of the Poetry Matters summer research internship (McGill, Arts Internship Office). The panel will be moderated by Professor Miranda Hickman (Department of English, McGill & Director, Poetry Matters initiative). Shanice Yarde (poet, educator, and Associate Director, Anti-Racism and Equity Education, McGill) will read a selection of poems by Barbara Althea Jones.

This is an in-person only event. Since this event is primarily a recording session for the Poetry Matters archive, space is limited. Please RSVP to attend.

Location: 

McLennan Library Building / Rare Books & Special Collections / 4th floor / Colgate Room
3459 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C9