October 28 - Poetry reading and conversation with poet Kerri Huffman
15 October 2025
Join us on Tuesday, October 28 from 3-4 p.m. in the Salter Reading Room (Humanities Centre 3-95) for a poetry reading and conversation with poet Kerri Huffman. The reading and conversation will take place from 3:00-3:30 p.m. and from 3:30-4:00 p.m there will be a mix and mingle with light refreshments.
Kerri Huffman’s debut collection, , works like an X-Ray machine held up to the poet’s heart. With nimble wit and an edgy, playful voice, Huffman demonstrates the fragility of our deepest connections. Through diary-like reflections—in gardens, kitchens, city parks, nightclubs, art galleries, in various cities—the book charts the final months in the arc of a thorny, transformational, corrosive relationship. juniper is concerned with the stakes of friendship, the cost of addiction, and the savagery lurking at the edges of polite society. Huffman’s haunting verse ultimately reveals how memory clings to desire in a world of inevitable loss.
Kerri Huffman is a Toronto-based poet whose work has appeared in Acta Victoriana, CV2, Taddle Creek, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, and others. She received the Hart House Review Poetry Prize and was twice shortlisted for the Janice Colbert Poetry Award. juniper is her first collection of poetry.