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Meg Freer is an established Kingston writer and the McDonald Institute’s 2024-25 Poet in Residence. In the Fall of 2024, Freer had an opportunity to visit SNOLAB, 30 years after an initial visit to the then-in-progress Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.

Her new book of poetry, aka “chapbook,” is inspired by her visits to SNOLAB, the Astroparticle Physics labs at Queen’s University, and conversations with researchers investigating the science of dark matter and the properties of neutrinos. The title of the chapbook, “Big Questions, Tiny Moments” is a reference to many nearly imperceptible signals that particle detectors capture, and the instants of theoretical insight that help develop an understanding of some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of the universe.

Join Freer and special guests on June 16th at the Time Out Bar and Bistro, 167 Ontario St. Kingston from 6:30-8:30 PM for an evening of science poetry, readings from the new book, and improvised piano.

Read about Freer’s return to SNOLAB in an earlier post here.