LYNN STRONGIN
READS FROM HER NEW BOOK
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17
   2 p.m.- 3pm

(at Winchester Galleries 2260 Oak Bay Avenue)

New York born, Canadian resident Lynn Strongin is a familiar name in the American literature classroom, as she was a familiar reader to poets of the Bay Area in California forty years ago. Her commitment to poetry is life long. Lynn Strongin poetry is frequently referred to for its’ spirituality and mysticism. Often, she takes on a persona, as in largest collection GRAILLE BOY from which she will read to us on December 17th, 2011.  She will also read to us from the books THORN BIRDS and INVISIBLE PARADISE.

Strongin's poetry and prose have been published worldwide in over 70 print and online journals and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry five times. Her book of poems, Cape Seventy, was nominated for the Griffin Award for Excellence in poetry. Her latest nominations were for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and a second Griffin award nomination.

The late, great poet and critic Hugh Fox has said "Lynn Strongin is the most vibrant poet writing today. Her passion for language and her depth of themes places her among the classics. Yet she is thoroughly a contemporary, living in Canada, writing poems in the new international legion of poetry.”