Book Launch & Lecture: Joseph Kidney and Domenica Martinello

Join us for the launch of Devotional Forensics by icehouse poet Joseph Kidney, featuring Domenica Martinello (Good Want, Coach House Books).

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Joseph Kidney has published poems in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, Arc, Vallum, The Malahat Review, Oberon, The Fiddlehead, Periodicities, The New Quarterly, PRISM, The Ex-Puritan, and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (in Arabic translation). He won the Short Grain Contest from Grain, and The Young Buck Poetry Prize (now the Foster Poetry Prize) from CV2 for the best poem submitted by an author under 35. He was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Bedford International Poetry Award, Arc’s Poem of the Year (three times), The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, and a Canadian National Magazine Award. Originally from BC, he is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. His chapbook Terra Firma, Pharma Sea is available from Anstruther Press.

Domenica Martinello is the author of All Day I Dream about Sirens (Coach House Books, 2019) and Good Want (Coach House Books, 2024) and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The title poem of her most recent collection, “Good Want,” won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize in 2023. For her prose writing, Domenica won the carte blanche 3Macs Prize (2017) for a genre-bending work of literary criticism on Elena Ferrante, and has published reviews and criticism in The Globe & Mail, The Montreal Review of Books, Canadian Notes & Queries, and elsewhere. Domenica has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis), and her work has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She lives in Montreal.

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Tuesday, Mar 25 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

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