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Lunch Poems presents Adrienne Drobnies & Michael Mirolla

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'Lunch Poems at SFU is a unique opportunity to celebrate poetry and is held the third Wednesday of every month, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

About this Event

January's Lunch Poems reading features poets Adrienne Drobnies and Michael Mirolla.

Adrienne Drobnies

Adrienne Drobnies is a Vancouver poet with a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley; she has worked at SFU and the Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver. Her debut poetry collection Salt and Ashes (Signature Editions, 2019) was longlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award and won the Fred Kerner Book Award from the Canadian Author’s Association. A graduate of SFU's The Writer’s Studio, her poetry has appeared in Canadian literary magazines, including The Antigonish Review, Event, Riddle Fence, The Toronto Quarterly, and The Maynard, as well as The Cider Press Review and Sow’s Ear Review in the US, and Popshot Magazine in the UK. One of her poems was selected for this year’s BC Poetry in Transit. She has been on the shortlist for the Vallum Award for Poetry. Her long poem “Randonnées” won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Award for Best Suite of Poems by an Emerging Poet and was a finalist for the CBC literary award.

Michael Mirolla

Michael Mirolla is the author of a clutch of poetry collections, novels, short story collections, film scripts and plays. He is a three-time winner of the F.G. Bressani Literary Prize. His novel Berlin was a finalist for the Indie and National Book Awards. The short story “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence” was selected for The Journey Prize Anthology and “The Sand Flea” was a Pushcart Prize nominee. His work has been translated into Italian, Latvian, German and Macedonian. He served as the Writer in Residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House from November 2019-January 2020. While there, he finished the first draft of The Second Law of Thermodynamics, a 200,000-word novel more than 25 years in the making. His speculative fiction collection, Paradise Island & Other Galaxies was published in the fall of 2020, while a poetry collection, At the End of the World, is scheduled for spring 2021. When not worrying over his next poem, short story or novel, Michael serves as editor-in-chief for Guernica Editions, a Canadian literary book publisher. Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, Michael now lives in Hamilton, Ontario. For more info: www.michaelmirolla.com.'