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AX Literary Series: Frye Festival Reading with Sue Goyette

May 2, 3pm

AX Literary Series:

Frye Festival Reading with Sue Goyette

Saturday, May 2, 3pm
FREE Event. Donations welcomed and appreciated.

Join us on Saturday, May 2nd at 3pm in the AX Gallery for a special afternoon. In partnership with the Frye Festival, AX will be hosting Sue Goyette. Moderated by Vanessa Moeller, this event will feature readings from Goyette’s latest collection Future Howl.

This free event is part of the AX Literary Series—donations are welcomed and appreciated.

Come out and enjoy the experience of this promising Canadian author.

Bio

Sue Goyette lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published several books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl, (Gaspereau Press, 2025). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and German and has been featured in films, subways, buses, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed.

Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time.

Book Description

Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time.

Moderator Bio

Vanessa Moeller’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals including The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and The Pottersfield Portfolio and have won several awards, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honourable mention in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards. Her book, Our Extraordinary Monsters, was published by Signature Editions. She completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. Originally from Sussex, she now lives in Moncton where she is Senior Creative Writer at m5 the agency.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the Frye Festival for partnering with AX to bring an amazing literary event to Sussex, and to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of our literary series.