2025 Summer Reading Series

Sage Hill Writing’s 2025 Summer Reading Series was a success! The readings featured our summer program instructors with poet Michael Trussler giving the Kroetsch Keynote Address! 

Did you miss the readings or want to watch them again?
Click the links below to watch the recorded events.
Both events are available for a month after the event.

July 4th Faculty Reading – available until August 4th
featuring: Joshua Whitehead, Neil Aitken, and Jenna Butler
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/vMyJ5KGuHIv5PVk-2XXLrRy24J4DxYorJpcvobms7xfcqoiUbBeemvBTWET2rFg.m1tXnLYSDKr8dhW
Passcode: V1gC%vxf

July 5th Kroetsch Keynote & Faculty Reading – available until August 5th
featuring: Vern Thiessen, Madeleine Thien, Michael Trussler
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/9eDpsThURFKYyI2eQSf41sbVVBdRdbWCTPzzoWI7xB7RR8uyJH5WRsVDcOG4UDWz.OYO0YE0YTQMxB3oT
Passcode: A9?fCaDw

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Many thanks to our funders and sponsors for this event: Sask Arts, SaskCulture, Saskatchewan Lotteries, Canada Council for the Arts, The League of Canadian Poets, and FriesenPress.

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The Spring Reading Event was a hit!

Thank you to everyone who watched and participated, both in person and online.

Special thanks to the Saskatchewan Book Awards and the Humboldt & District Museum and Art Gallery for the partnership.

About Our Featured Readers

 Marilyn Dumont

Metis poet, writer, and Professor Marilyn Dumont teaches for the faculties of Arts and Native Studies at the University of Alberta and is proud of Metis family lines from her Mother’s – Vaness / Dufresne families and her father’s – Boudreau/Dumont families. 

She was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada. In 2019, she received the University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award and the Alberta Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award, and in 2022 was Awarded the Alberta Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medal for public service. 

Her four collections of poetry have won provincial or national awards:  A Really Good Brown Girl (1996); green girl dreams Mountains (2001); that tongued belonging (2007); The Pemmican Eaters (2015). Her newest collection is South Side of a Kinless River published by Brick Books 2024.

 

Courtney Bates-Hardy
Photo Credit Ali Lauren Creative Services

Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Event, Vallum, Grain, and PRISM, among others. Anatomical Venus was shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her poems have been featured in The Best Canadian Poetry and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer and disabled, and one-quarter of a writing group called The Pain Poets.

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Many thanks to our partners, funders, and sponsors for the Spring Reading: the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the Humboldt & District Museum and Art Gallery, Sask Arts, SaskCulture, Saskatchewan Lotteries, Canada Council for the Arts, and the League of Canadian Poets.

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Are you curious about the Poetry Colloquium and instructor Marilyn Dumont’s work?

Maury Wrubleski from Discover Humboldt held a radio interview with instructor Marilyn Dumont and Acting Executive Director Caitilin Terfloth.

You can listen to the 10-minute conversation at this link (scroll to the bottom of their webpage to listen): https://www.discoverhumboldt.com/articles/marilyn-dumont-shares-insights-into-sagehill-poetry-colloquium-at-st-peters-abbey#:~:text=Enjoy%20the%20full%20conversation%20with%20Caitlin%20Terfloth%20and%20Marilyn%20Dumont.%20%C2%A0

Here’s the link to the news article about the Spring Reading Event: https://www.discoverhumboldt.com/articles/poetry-reading-this-saturday-at-the-gallery

You can also tune into 107.5 FM for more Humboldt radio.

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