Montreal International Poetry Prize hosted at the McClure Gallery

Friday April 27 at 5pm

Poetry Reading by Linda Rogers & Mark Tredinnick
Eric Fischl Limited edition giclée print hand signed by the artist.
Broadside poem signed by poet.

Wine and Hors -D’Oeuvres  will be served

Eric Fischl, a prominent American artist and founder of the ‘America: Now and Here’ project, has produced a poetry broadside in support of the nonprofit Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Fischl, a painter and sculptor whose works include the controversial Tumbling Woman, selected a poem for the broadside from the 2011 Global Poetry Anthology recently published by Montreal’s Véhicule Press. Fischl’s selection, “The Grasshoppers’ Silence” by Canadian poet Linda Rogers, is inspired by the true story of Rumana Monzur, who was tragically blinded in an attack by her husband in Bangladesh in June 2011. “I’ve chosen this poem because the image of the one-legged grasshopper won’t let me sleep,” said Fischl of his selection.

The first opportunity to view and purchase the broadside will be a launch held at the McClure Gallery, Visual Arts Center (350 Victoria Ave., in Westmount) on April 27 between 5-7pm. Linda Rogers, the former poet laureate of Victoria, B.C., will be in attendance to sign the broadsides and read her poem.