*Talk and Poetry Reading by Ricardo Sternberg *

Wednesday, December 12, 12:00 noon, HC L-3, University of Alberta *

Born in Brazil, Ricardo Sternberg teaches at University of Toronto. He was trained at University of California, Riverside and Los Angeles and was also a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. In 1974, he was awarded first place in The Nation Poetry Prize and, in 1978, he won a Pushcart Prize. Among his recent publications are Bamboo Church, McGill Queens University Press, 2003 (Republished 2006); Map of Dreams, Montreal: Vehicule, 1996; The Invention of Honey, Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1990 (Republished 1996, 2006).

More information on the poet at http://ricardosternberg.com/