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Marilyn Dumont: Poetry Reading

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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

2025 Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet Marilyn Dumont will read her celebrated poetry at Shq’apthut: A Gathering Place at the VIU Nanaimo Campus (Building 170) alongside VIU student poet Susan Garcia. The event will also feature music!


Marilyn Dumont is a celebrated poet of Métis ancestry. Her first collection of poetry, A Really Good Brown Girl (1996), won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets; it continues to be read and course-adopted across Canada and in the US. The Pemmican Eaters (2015) won the 2016 Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award. Her most recent book is South Side of a Kinless River (Brick Books, 2024). She has been the writer-in-residence at five Canadian universities and the Edmonton Public Library as well as an advisor in the Aboriginal Emerging Writers Program at the Banff Centre. She is a full professor of Indigenous Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Cost: Free Event
Category: Arts | Entertainment
    Literature | Poetry
Location: Vancouver Island University
900 Fifth Street, Nanaimo
This event is for Adults, Seniors, Student / College
More Info: Neil Surkan
[email protected]

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