Tuesday November 16 at 5-7 pm: Signature Editions presents a reading by Charlene Diehl from her new memoir “Out of Grief, Singing” — an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. http://www.signature-editions.com/
€œDiehl delivers a no-holds-barred account of her devastating experience.€ €” Winnipeg Free Press
Charlene Diehl is a writer, editor, performer, and director of THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. She did her graduate work at the University o Manitoba, receiving a PhD in 1992 under the supervision of Robert Kroetsch. After a post-doc at McGill, and seven years as a professor in the English Department at the University of Waterloo, she returned to Winnipeg in 2000. She has published essays, poetry, non-fiction, reviews, and interviews in journals across Canada, and has to her credit a scholarly book on Fred Wah as well as a collection of poetry, lamentations, and two chapbooks, mm and The Lover’s Handbook. Excerpts from Out of Grief, Singing, which appeared in Prairie Fire, won a Western Canadian Magazine Gold Award. She was the featured poet in the fall 2007 issue of CV2. When she’s not chasing literary language (or her two speedy pre-teens), she edits dig! magazine, Winnipeg’s bi-monthly jazz publication.
