Join “Writers Read”, at the Kemptville Branch of the North Grenville Public Library at 1 Water Street, Kemptville. Ottawa-based poets AJ Dolman, Conyer Clayton, and Jennifer Baker will each be reading from work that reflects elements of the personal everyday: diversity, identity, mental health, relationships and place.

Jennifer Baker is a poet, editor, and scholar living and working in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of three chapbooks, Abject Lessons (2014), Groundling (2021/2023) and Memento Mishka (2023), which was co-authored with David Currie. She is the Poetry Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine (Ottawa). Her poetry, essays, and interviews can be found in various Canadian magazines, including Arc, Canthius, and Canadian Literature. Her current projects focus on the intersections between environmental history, material sciences, visual arts, and poetry.

Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky living in Ottawa, whose latest book of surrealist prose poetry, But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves., won the Archibald Lampman Award. They are a Senior Editor at Augur and a member of VII, an Ottawa-based poetry collective, and you can find their fiction, essays, and poetry published in journals throughout the U.S. and Canada. Their third full-length collection of poetry is forthcoming in 2026.

AJ Dolman’s (they/she) debut poetry collection is Crazy / Mad (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). They previously authored Lost Enough: A collection of short stories (MRP, 2017), and three poetry chapbooks, and co-edited Motherhood in Precarious Times (Demeter Press, 2018). Dolman’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. They are a bi/pan+ rights advocate and founder of Bi+ Canada.