Poetry Book Launch – Some of Us May Live

Some of Us May Live by Leigh Kotsilidis

Readings by:

Leigh Kotsilidis Some of Us May Live (Coach House Books)
Jay Ritchie Listening In Many Publics (Invisible)
Michelle Elrick Then / Again (Harbour Publishing)
Madelaine Caritas Longman Danger Model (Queen’s-McGill University Press)

Followed by a brief Q&A.

Where: Trident Booksellers & Cafe
When: October 6th, 2026 @ 7pm

Leigh Kotsilidis has written two full-length collections of poetry, Hypotheticals (2011) and Some of Us May Live (2026), both with Coach House Books. Her poems have also appeared in journals and magazines, including The Malahat Review, Prism international, EVENT, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Hazlitt, as well as being anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English and IV Lounge Nights, among others. She is also an intermedia artist. Kotsilidis lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal).

Jay Ritchie’s most recent book Listening in Many Publics (Invisible Publishing, 2024) was a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry. He holds a PhD in English from McGill University, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is currently the Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University. His work has appeared in Chicago Review, Jacket2, Maisonneuve, SAND, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Yolk, Arc Poetry, The Dalhousie Review, and elsewhere.

Michelle Elrick is the author of two books of poetry and a spoken word album (with River of Diamonds). She lives on the South Shore, where she writes for the local paper and walks quiet country roads with her dog. She recently completed her first novel.

Madelaine Caritas Longman is the author of The Danger Model, which received the 2020 Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Arc, Plenitude, The Ex-Puritan, Vallum, Grain, Room, PRISM and elsewhere. She teaches at Dalhousie University, where her postdoctoral research examines the intersections of contemporary poetry, disability theory, and the politics of empathy.