Vanessa Moeller

Discover "For M", by Vanessa Moeller, in this final video-poem from Poésie Moncton Poetry's second season.

Text: Vanessa Moeller

Film and music: Étienne Boivin (Atlas Films)

ABOUT VANESSA MOELLER

The first entry about Vanessa Moeller in her mother’s diary reads, “Vanessa wrote on the white wall with a red marker.” She was barely one at the time; it was a portent of things to come. Since then, she’s been committed to writing, drawing, literacy, and the arts, and while she doesn’t write on walls (much) anymore, her words do occasionally appear on a billboard or two as part of her work as a Senior Creative Writer for m5 Marketing Communications.

Vanessa Moeller holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Her first book, Our Extraordinary Monsters, was released by Signature Editions, and her work has received numerous awards including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honorable mention in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals including The Fiddlehead, Prism International, and CV2, as well as in anthologies by Guernica Editions, Baseline Press, and Frog Hollow Press.

Fredric Gary Comeau

Découvrez un texte du poète acadien Fredric Gary Comeau avec ce pénultième vidéo-poème de la 2e saison de Poésie Moncton Poetry.

Texte : Fredric Gary Comeau, "Poème pour Moncton" Vidéo et musique : Atlas Film

AU SUJET DE FREDRIC GARY COMEAU

Poète, romancier, auteur-compositeur-interprète et peintre, Fredric Gary Comeau a publié une douzaine de recueils de poésie et un roman, et il a enregistré plusieurs disques, soit en solo ou avec les groupes Atréal et The Kerouac Project. Il a remporté le prix Jacques-Cartier pour son premier roman, Vertiges (XYZ, 2013). Acadien d’origine, il vit à Montréal.

Jo-Anne Elder

Discover "How I Remember You", a video-poem by Jo-Anne Elder and Étienne Boivin.

Text: Jo-Anne Elder

Film and music: Étienne Boivin (Atlas Films)

ABOUT JO-ANNE ELDER

Jo-Anne Elder is a writer, editor, educator, and translator. Raised in Burlington, Ontario, she is currently a resident of Fredericton, New Brunswick. She received her B.A. in French Studies from Trent University, Ontario, and completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Canadian Literature at Université de Sherbrooke, Quebéc.

Jo-Anne Elder has taught at St. Thomas University and Université de Moncton. She is a member of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (International Federation of Translators), a board member for ATTLC/LTAC (Literacy Translators’ Association of Canada), and a literary translator at Transfiction Translation Services. She runs editions ellipse inc., a not-for-profit publication promoting literary translation and intercultural awareness. In addition to editing ellipse magazine from 1969-2012, Jo-Anne Elder organized the Side by Side Festival of Literary Translation until 2010 and offers workshops, talks, and bilingual and multilingual book readings.

Jo-Anne Elder has translated more than a dozen novels and story collections and has written many pieces of her own. Her first book of poetry, Postcards from Ex-Lovers (Broken Jaw Press, 2005), won the Writers Federation of New Brunswick’s inaugural David Adams Richards prize. Jo-Anne Elder was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards for translation in 2003, 2009 and 2010.