Poetry Reading with Marilyn Dumont & Erín Moure; Opening Ceremony

All conference participants are invited to join us for our opening ceremony and reception. Following brief opening remarks by ACLA President Karyn Ball, we will hear readings from poet and professor Marilyn Dumont (University of Alberta) and poet and translator Erín Moure. We are very honored to welcome these extraordinary writers to share their work and words with us.

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).  A fifth collection surrounding Indigenous history of Edmonton, called South Side of a Kinless River was published by Brick Books in 2024.

Erín Moure is a Canadian poet, translator, and essayist. Often hybrid in form, her books explore the possibility of queer citizenship as well as the potentialities of language/s. She has published more than 18 books of poetry and more than 25 books of poetry by others, translated from Galician, Spanish, French, and Portuguese (Nicole Brossard, Andrés Ajens, Louise Dupré, Rosalia de Castro, Chus Pato, and Fernando Pessoa). Her own bibliography includes O Cidadán (Anansi, 2002), Insecession (a reflection on and with her translation of Secession by Chus Pato) (BookThug, 2014), and a book of essays My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice (NeWest Press, 2009). Her most recent book, Theophylline: an aporetic migration via the modernisms of Rukeyser, Bishop, Grimké (Anansi, 2023) is an essay and collection of poems, and her most recent translation is of Chus Pato’s Sonora (Veliz Books, 2026).