Carolyn Marie Souaid | |
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 Photograph taken in 2010 by Monique Dykstra | |
| Born | August 1, 1959 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | writer, editor, educator |
| Language | English, French |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Bachelor, Master of Arts |
| Alma mater | McGill University, Concordia University |
| Genre | poetry |
Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1 August 1959) is a Canadian poet, educator, publisher and editor. [1]
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at McGill University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (1981) and a diploma in Education (1983), and at Concordia University, where she earned a Master of Arts in Creative Writing (1995). Her first poetry collection, Swimming into the Light, won the David McKeen Award for Poetry in 1996. Her books have been nominated for a number of literary awards in Canada including the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.
Souaid's work focuses on pivotal moments in Québécois history [2] and on the difficult bridging of worlds (English/French; native/non-native). [3] In 2010, she and longtime poetic collaborator Endre Farkas produced Blood is Blood, a controversial video-poem dealing with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. [4]
Well known for her activism on the Montreal literary scene, [5] [6] [7] Souaid co-produced Poetry in Motion in 2004 (which brought poems to Montreal buses [8] ) and Circus of Words / Cirque des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret showcasing the "theatre" of poetry. [9] In 2009, she co-founded Poetry Quebec, an online review dedicated to the English language poetry and poets of Quebec. [10] From 2008 to 2011, she served as poetry editor for Signature Editions, one of Canada's top publishers of poetry. [11]
Souaid has lived most of her life in Montreal, except for three years spent teaching in Inuit villages along Quebec's Hudson-Ungava coast in the early 1980s. [12]
Carolyn Marie Souaid's fourth collection of poetry, Satie's Sad Piano… is a fine achievement in attempting to explain the importance of Pierre Elliott Trudeau - and his passing, five years ago - for the national imagination. … This long poem is perhaps the first serious effort to encompass the nation since Dennie Lee's problematically Ontario centric/Torontonian Civil Elegies appeared in 1868 and 1972 [13]
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