Please join Sue Sorensen, author of Acutely Life: Poems and Ariel Gordon, author of Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest, for a reading from their new books!

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Sue Sorensen is a poet, novelist, and professor who now lives in Winnipeg. Her poetry collection Acutely Life (At Bay Press) was published in 2024. She is the author of the novel A Large Harmonium and the non-fiction book The Collar and also the editor of West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature.

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast. Siteseeing: Writing nature & climate change across the prairies (At Bay Press, 2023), written in collaboration with Saskatchewan poet Brenda Schmidt, was shortlisted for a SBA. Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn), a collection of essays, was published in spring 2024. Recent work appears in Best Canadian Essays 2025 and Prairie Fire’s 50 Over 50 special issue.

Our thanks to the League of Canadian Poets for funding this event.