Literary CV

LITERARY APPROACH:
		Where does my source of inspiration come from? Often from an event experienced intensely. The approach does not matter whether it is visual or literary.  However, the emotion that emerges from the work is very important to me and represents ‘the essential’. It absolutely must convey the emotion that lives in me.I sign my poems Eugénia to dissociate my writings from my visual works and to pay tribute to the two most important women in my life, my mother Eugénie who taught me perseverance and resilience by her example as well as my grandmother Exilda who passed on to me her passion for the arts and the taste for writing. An amalgam of these two names with emotional resonance.
BIOGRAPHY:
		Self-taught Born in Beauharnois, Claudette Poirier is a painter and Eugénia is a poet, one and the same person. For me, everything is a pretext to tell a story, whether visual or literary . I consider myself a multidisciplinary artist, painter, sculptor and poet, member of RAAV and Culture Montérégie. In 1985, 1986 and 1989, I experienced first-hand dramatic events, the sudden death of my boss at the office, followed the following year by that of my husband at the age of 46, as well as the massacre at Polytechnique. These tragic events, within a short interval, shake me. The psychologist I see, following the carnage, advises me to write down the emotions that are suffocating me. It was then that this adventure in literature began.A woman of action, I participated in the creation of artists’ groups, Atelier du geste and Artishow. In 2018, I sat on the Committee for the Implementation of Saint-Constant’s Cultural Policy. In 2008, under the aegis of Arts visuels Roussillon (AvR), I created the cultural event “Mille mots en images” which brings together visual artists and poets from the Montérégie region for an evening, as well as occasionally performing artists. Eight collections have been published, the last in 2020 “Méditation poétique sur les pierres sauvages” following the dissolution of AvR, was published by the Cercle des poètes de la Montérégie. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the picture does not represent the same thing for everyone, any more than words have the same resonance in every person. Our experience greatly influences our perception. This is what I wanted to demonstrate by creating the “Mille mots en images” event. In 2011, I joined the Cercle des poètes de la Montérégie. In 2015, I realized another dream, that of putting on paper the intense and extraordinary experience I had in Montserrat. I was in Barcelona for a group exhibition. By chance, this stage of my journey is proving to be a factor of important changes and I wanted to bear witness to it. “Montserrat, initiateur de changements” was born from the reflection that followed. Biographical collection containing texts and images before and after Montserrat that I wrote and photocomposed myself and which was published by Éditions Belle Feuille. More recently, in June 2018, I had the pleasure of participating in “The International Festival of Fine Arts of Monastir” in Tunisia where I created a visual work accompanied by a poem entitled “la femme tunisienne”. To my surprise, this poem ended up in the Governor’s office. You never know where words can take you.
EUGÉNIA, CURRICULUM VITAE
BACKGROUND:
		Self-taught;
POETRY RECITAL DURING THE FOLLOWING EVENTS:
2024		Night of Reading, Sainte-Catherine Library, reading by actors Sylvain Massé and Annick Beaulne, of my poems from the collection ‘À fleur de vie’ published in 2023, January 18;
2023		Beloeil Library, Collection ‘À fleur de vie’; ‘Mémoire d’un rêve inachevé’, November 26;
2022		Cercle des poètes de la Montérégie Recital, participation in Kevin Nichka-Boire show, Chambly Guard Corps, August 13;
2022		« Parcours » recital, Résidence Notre-Dame-de-Richelieu, Richelieu, July 14;
2022		« Poèmes à la carte » recital, Bibliothèque Françoise-Maurice, Coaticook, April 27;
2018		Les Résidences Richeloises, McMasterville, poem ‘Les naufragés oubliés’, October 21;
2018		Harp and poetry, City of Saint-Basile-le-Grand, poems: ‘L’œuvre de Chagall’ and ‘Vivre au temps présent’, April 27;
2017		Houses SNJM Longueuil, ‘Je suis un jardin’, January;

PERSONAL PUBLICATIONS:
2015		Poetic biography: ‘Montserrat – initiateur de changements’, Éditions Belle Feuille, July 2015, ISBN for printed version: 978-2-924530-29-0; ISBN for the digital version: 978-2-924530-30-6.
GROUP PUBLICATIONS:
2023		‘À fleur de vie’ collective of 18 poets by the Cercle des poètes de la Montérégie, November 26, ISBN: 978-2-981-3346-6-4
2020		« Méditation poétique sur les pierres sauvages » Mille mots en images, 2020 edition; poems « L’alchimiste » et « Ni d’Ève ni d’Adam »; ISBN : 978-2-9813346-5-7;
2019		« Écrire avec les poètes » Cercle des poètes de la Montérégie, 2019; ISBN : 978-2-981-3346-4-0;
2018		« La musique de l’âme », Éditions mp tresart, ISBN: 978-2-9816519-1-4, pages 68-71 and 76-79;
2016		« Et si les mots parlaient », Éditions mp tresart, ISBN: 978-2-9813646-7-9, pages 36-38;
2016		« Plongée dans les eaux de la mémoire » inspired by « Histoire d’eau » about the Empress of Ireland, 9 octobre;
2016		« Kasala », poems from CPM, ISBN: 978-2-981-3346-2-6;
2016		Mille mots en images – « Exubérance » ISBN: 978-2-9811366-6-4, pages 28 & 46, pages 15 & 81;
2016		« La lumière et les mots », poems, ISBN: 948-2-9813346-2-6;

PUBLIC READINGS:
2022		Notre-Dame-de-Richelieu Residence, Richelieu, July 14;
2022		Solo recital ‘Poèmes à la carte’, Bibliothèque Françoise-Maurice, Coaticook, April 20;
2011		I read this poem before the parliamentary guests at the Salon of the Speaker of the House of Commons in Ottawa, approximately fifty, on March 8, 2011, where we celebrated Women’s Day. On this day, I was invited by Alexandra Mendès MP, to exhibit the Collective ‘Jamais je n’oublierai le 6 décembre 1989′, a 5′ x 8’ mural painting, a project I conducted in 2010 with the collaboration of the personnel and students of École Polytechnique de Montréal to commemorate and pay tribute to the victims of this sad tragedy.
2009		‘Amies, sœurs, femmes’. Poem read by Céline Lemire-Mercier during the ceremony held at the Notre-Dame church in Montreal to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tragedy that occurred December 6, 1989 at Polytechnique;