Performers in our 2012/13 Season

Oct 4 Geo Huth ‘s poetry consists of one-word poems, poems written in unintelligible scripts, poems painted onto canvas or assembled within boxes, poems spoken or sung and audio- or video-recorded during the moments of their creation, poems created within nature and left to disappear back into it, and even syntactic text separated into lines. He writes frequently about poetry, visual and otherwise, at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics . Each of his poetry performances attempts to use his entire body fully to examine the limitations of poetry. His latest books are ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth published by if p then q of England, a book of 775 one-word poems, and AUTION CAUTION , a set of found and manipulated photopoems published by Redfoxpress of Ireland.

Oct 4

Geo Huth‘s poetry consists of one-word poems, poems written in unintelligible scripts, poems painted onto canvas or assembled within boxes, poems spoken or sung and audio- or video-recorded during the moments of their creation, poems created within nature and left to disappear back into it, and even syntactic text separated into lines. He writes frequently about poetry, visual and otherwise, at his blog, dbqp: visualizing poetics. Each of his poetry performances attempts to use his entire body fully to examine the limitations of poetry. His latest books arentst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth published by if p then q of England, a book of 775 one-word poems, and AUTION CAUTION, a set of found and manipulated photopoems published by Redfoxpress of Ireland.

Oct 20 J enny Sampirisi is the author of the novel is/was from Insomniac Press. She is the former Managing Editor of BookThug and current co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing, a series of reading and writing workshops designed and facilitated by working writers. She teaches English Literature, Creative Writing and Composition at Ryerson University. She is the 2011 recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Literature. Croak (Coach House Books, 2011), a libretto of hermaphroditic Frogirls, is her first poetry collection. It is a poetic narrative of love, loss, and compromise played out on a Beckettian stage. She will present a poly-vocal rendering of the text at the AB Series.
Oct 20
Jenny Sampirisi is the author of the novel is/was from Insomniac Press. She is the former Managing Editor of BookThug and current co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing, a series of reading and writing workshops designed and facilitated by working writers. She teaches English Literature, Creative Writing and Composition at Ryerson University. She is the 2011 recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Literature. Croak (Coach House Books, 2011), a libretto of hermaphroditic Frogirls, is her first poetry collection. It is a poetic narrative of love, loss, and compromise played out on a Beckettian stage. She will present a poly-vocal rendering of the text at the AB Series.
Nov 21 A uthor of more than twenty poetry collections, Katalin Ladik ’s work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. A polymath master of text-based, visual and sonic poetry, Ladik’s literary production has been received with great acclaim. She is the winner of numerous awards including the bestowal this year of the Laurel Wreath of Hungary. Since her ground-breaking performance at the 10th International Festival of Sound Poetry in Amsterdam in 1977, she has been at the forefront of Europe’s dynamic sound-poetry scene. About Katalin Ladik , the late great, French sound poet, Henri Chopin stated : “Elle possède vocalement tout un orchestre "verbophonique", avec sa seul voix qui peut être aiguë, grave, modulée, aux variations inattendues, abruptes, faisant jaillir de la bouche et de la gorge des phonations très rares.”

Nov 21

Author of more than twenty poetry collections, Katalin Ladik’s work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. A polymath master of text-based, visual and sonic poetry, Ladik’s literary production has been received with great acclaim. She is the winner of numerous awards including the bestowal this year of the Laurel Wreath of Hungary.  Since her ground-breaking performance at the 10th International Festival of Sound Poetry in Amsterdam in 1977, she has been at the forefront of Europe’s dynamic sound-poetry scene. About Katalin Ladik, the late great, French sound poet, Henri Chopin stated : “Elle possède vocalement tout un orchestre "verbophonique", avec sa seul voix qui peut être aiguë, grave, modulée, aux variations inattendues, abruptes, faisant jaillir de la bouche et de la gorge des phonations très rares.” 

N ewfoundland-born and half-Finnish, Glenn Nuotio now calls Ottawa home. Combining chamber music and folk, Glenn delivers unnervingly complex pop. As Ottawa Xtra! notes, "he channels it through an indie musician's paper heart and the results are invariably stirring."
Newfoundland-born and half-Finnish, Glenn Nuotio now calls Ottawa home. Combining chamber music and folk, Glenn delivers unnervingly complex pop. As Ottawa Xtra! notes, "he channels it through an indie musician's paper heart and the results are invariably stirring."
  
Jan 10 Carolyn Smart 's fifth collection of poems, Hooked - Seven Poems was published in 2009 by Brick Books. An excerpt from her memoir At the End of the Day won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. She is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging writers, and since 1989 has taught Creative Writing at Queen's University. Her work-in-progress is a series of poems about the Barrow Gang entitled Careen .

Jan 10

Carolyn Smart's fifth collection of poems, Hooked - Seven Poems was published in 2009 by Brick Books. An excerpt from her memoir At the End of the Day won first prize in the 1993 CBC Literary Contest. She is the founder of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging writers, and since 1989 has taught Creative Writing at Queen's University. Her work-in-progress is a series of poems about the Barrow Gang entitled Careen.

Oct 20 k evin mcpherson eckhoff equals rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 2010) plus easy peasy (Snare Books, 2011)! Will he win the ReLit award this year? Join whobet.com to make it interesting. His bestfriend is named Jake Kennedy; together they enjoy art, popcorn, hugs, Open Letter , musick, kindness, whey protein, students at Okanagan College, clinamen, Tim & Eric, Denny's, pretend violence, and eventually finishing their community-written novel, Death Valley . kevin’s words have been made for real totes in-print, like, within West Wind Review , Fact*Simile and Descant . He lives & loves in Armstrong, BC, with some rescue dogs and a dog-rescuing super-lady, Laurel. She & he are merely weeks away from welcoming their first & craziest collaboration ever, which remains, as of yet, untitled.
Oct 20
kevin mcpherson eckhoff equals rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 2010) plus easy peasy (Snare Books, 2011)! Will he win the ReLit award this year? Join whobet.com to make it interesting. His bestfriend is named Jake Kennedy; together they enjoy art, popcorn, hugs, Open Letter, musick, kindness, whey protein, students at Okanagan College, clinamen, Tim & Eric, Denny's, pretend violence, and eventually finishing their community-written novel,Death Valley. kevin’s words have been made for real totes in-print, like, within West Wind Review, Fact*Simile and Descant. He lives & loves in Armstrong, BC, with some rescue dogs and a dog-rescuing super-lady, Laurel. She & he are merely weeks away from welcoming their first & craziest collaboration ever, which remains, as of yet, untitled.
Nov 7 J ohn Giorno (born 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1963). He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He lives in New York City. (photo: Pepe Arrebato)

Nov 7

John Giorno (born 1936) is an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, including Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep (1963). He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser, and a long-time practitioner of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He lives in New York City.

(photo: Pepe Arrebato)

Nov 21 Gerry Shikatani’s most recent poetry collection, The Port's Seasonal Rental , was published last year by Mercury Press/Teksteditions. Shikatani’s diverse writing projects include poetry, prose, textsound performance, concrete poetry as well as collaboration in experimental film. His journalism has involved sports, travel and international culinary criticism.

Nov 21

Gerry Shikatani’s most recent poetry collection, The Port's Seasonal Rental, was published last year by Mercury Press/Teksteditions. Shikatani’s diverse writing projects include poetry, prose, textsound performance, concrete poetry as well as collaboration in experimental film. His journalism has involved sports, travel and international culinary criticism.

bill bissett ’s more than 60 books are immediately identifiable by the incorporation of his artwork and phonetic spelling. His most recent books, novel (2011), time (2010), sublingual (2008) and ths is erth thees ar peopul (2007), were published by Talonbooks. bissett's object lesson in critical poetics, Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv language , out of of print since 1972, was recently published in a new edition by BookThug. An energetic "man-child mystic," bill bissett is living proof of William Blake's adage "the spirit of sweet delight can never be defiled." His idealistic and ecstatic stances frequently obscure his critical mindedness, humour and craftsmanship.

bill bissett’s more than 60 books are immediately identifiable by the incorporation of his artwork and phonetic spelling. His most recent books, novel (2011), time (2010), sublingual (2008) and ths is erth thees ar peopul (2007), were published by Talonbooks. bissett's object lesson in critical poetics, Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv language, out of of print since 1972, was recently published in a new edition by BookThug. An energetic "man-child mystic," bill bissett is living proof of William Blake's adage "the spirit of sweet delight can never be defiled." His idealistic and ecstatic stances frequently obscure his critical mindedness, humour and craftsmanship.

Jan 10 P earl Pirie has poems in a number of chapbooks and in 2 poetry collections, Thirsts (Snare) and been shed bore (Chaudiere). She has 2 more looking for a good home where they will be fed and watered and taken for walks. She makes mini chapbooks with her micro press Phafours. She been organizing the Tree Seed Workshop Series for the Tree Reading Series since 2009. She tweets, photographs and verbs about Ottawa, the luckiest town for literature in most anywhere.

Jan 10

Pearl Pirie has poems in a number of chapbooks and in 2 poetry collections, Thirsts (Snare) and been shed bore (Chaudiere). She has 2 more looking for a good home where they will be fed and watered and taken for walks. She makes mini chapbooks with her micro press Phafours. She been organizing the Tree Seed Workshop Series for the Tree Reading Series since 2009. She tweets, photographs and verbs about Ottawa, the luckiest town for literature in most anywhere.

Feb 17 evalyn parry “Equally funny and dangerous” – CBC Radio Award-winning songwriter, poet and ironic social commentator evalyn parry is gifted with a sharp pen, a quirky musical sensibility and a wicked sense of humour. From 19th century cycling heroines to 21st century sailors; from ‘feminine protection’ to bottled water to the quest for the Northwest Passage, evalyn’s outspoken creations hold out a powerful vision of social and personal change, while her irreverent wit holds nothing sacred.

Feb 17

evalyn parry

“Equally funny and dangerous” – CBC Radio

Award-winning songwriter, poet and ironic social commentator evalyn parry is gifted with a sharp pen, a quirky musical sensibility and a wicked sense of humour. From 19th century cycling heroines to 21st century sailors; from ‘feminine protection’ to bottled water to the quest for the Northwest Passage, evalyn’s outspoken creations hold out a powerful vision of social and personal change, while her irreverent wit holds nothing sacred.

Mar 16 Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written for the Globe & Mail and Books in Canada . His poetry, essays, short stories, and translations have been published in journals and magazines and he has read his translations of Catullus on public radio in the U.S. His translation of the poetry of Catullus was published in 2005. He has recently completed a book of poetry and a translation of the odes of Horace. He lives in Toronto.

Mar 16

Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written for the Globe & Mail and Books in Canada. His poetry, essays, short stories, and translations have been published in journals and magazines and he has read his translations of Catullus on public radio in the U.S. His translation of the poetry of Catullus was published in 2005. He has recently completed a book of poetry and a translation of the odes of Horace. He lives in Toronto.

Jan 31 Beatriz Hausner ’s poetry books include: The Wardrobe Mistress (2003), Towards the Ideal Man Poems (2003), The Stitched Heart (2004), The Archival Stone (2005), Sew Him Up (2010) and Enter the Raccoon (2012), and La costurera y el muñeco vivo (2012), the Spanish translation of her selected poetry. Beatriz Hausner is a prolific translator of many works of literature, including the poetry of César Moro, Rosamel del Valle, Mandrágora , Olga Orozco, Enrique Molina, Abigael Bohórquez, the prose of Alvaro Mutis and Aldo Pellegrini, among others. Hausner’s recent work as an editor includes three issues of the Canadian journal Open Letter , as well as the series SomeoneWater( someone.ca ). She is General Editor of the online journal The International Literary Quarterly (interlitq.org). She is one of the publishers of Quattro Books ( quattrobooks.ca ), and works as a public librarian in Toronto. (photo by Clive Sewell)

Jan 31

Beatriz Hausner’s poetry books include: The Wardrobe Mistress (2003), Towards the Ideal Man Poems (2003), The Stitched Heart (2004),The Archival Stone (2005), Sew Him Up (2010) and Enter the Raccoon (2012), and La costurera y el muñeco vivo (2012), the Spanish translation of her selected poetry.

Beatriz Hausner is a prolific translator of many works of literature, including the poetry of César Moro, Rosamel del Valle, Mandrágora, Olga Orozco, Enrique Molina, Abigael Bohórquez, the prose of Alvaro Mutis and Aldo Pellegrini, among others.

Hausner’s recent work as an editor includes three issues of the Canadian journal Open Letter, as well as the series SomeoneWater(someone.ca).  She is General Editor of the online journal The International Literary Quarterly (interlitq.org). She is one of the publishers of Quattro Books (quattrobooks.ca), and works as a public librarian in Toronto.

(photo by Clive Sewell)

Jan 31 Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011),Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). In 2011, he won Bywords' John Newlove Award, as judged by a. rawlings, and recent chapbooks have appeared with Bywords.ca, Corrupt Press, &then&then, Gorse Press, unarmed, Free Poetry For, little red leaves textile editiosn and Apostrophe Press. An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review ( ottawater.com/garneaureview ), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics ( ottawater.com/seventeenseconds ) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater ( ottawater.com ). He is organizer and co-founder of the ottawa small press book fair (twice a year since 1994), and The Factory Reading Series, now twenty years old. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Jan 31

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011),Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). In 2011, he won Bywords' John Newlove Award, as judged by a. rawlings, and recent chapbooks have appeared with Bywords.ca, Corrupt Press, &then&then, Gorse Press, unarmed, Free Poetry For, little red leaves textile editiosn and Apostrophe Press. An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He is organizer and co-founder of the ottawa small press book fair (twice a year since 1994), and The Factory Reading Series, now twenty years old. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Feb 17 Luna Allison is by turns a page poet, spoken word artist, playwright, journalist, singer and actor. She has been featured in numerous literary and spoken word series, festivals and venues across North America and heard on CBC Radio. Her award-winning first play, Falling Open , has been featured at the Ottawa Fringe, the Montreal Fringe and The Great Canadian Theatre Company’s Undercurrents Festival. Luna is currently working on a new play about sin and friendship, along with a collection of poems about patience called The Waiting Room.

Feb 17

Luna Allison is by turns a page poet, spoken word artist, playwright, journalist, singer and actor. She has been featured in numerous literary and spoken word series, festivals and venues across North America and heard on CBC Radio. Her award-winning first play, Falling Open, has been featured at the Ottawa Fringe, the Montreal Fringe and The Great Canadian Theatre Company’s Undercurrents Festival. Luna is currently working on a new play about sin and friendship, along with a collection of poems about patience called The Waiting Room.

March 16 Claudia Coutu Radmore is known for her Japanese-form poems, as well as for her lyric poetry. Her poem where language forms won second place in the 2010 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Awards and Accidentals, (Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa), won the 2011 bpNichol Award. Recent series have been Qui annus est ?/ What year is this?, poems in response to: 13 – 18, PHOTOGRAPHS BY OLIVIA JOHNSTON at the Red Wall Gallery (SPAO Ottawa), and saturation, the joy of , in response to TILT , ORCHID PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE MORRISON at the Orange Gallery, Ottawa. (2012) Author of Your Hands Discover Me /tes mains me découvrent (2010), a minute or two/ without remembering , (2010), Ms. Radmore wrote the foreword to, and edited, Arctic Twilight; Leonard Budgell and the Changing North.(2010) Since 2011, she has edited and published Murray Citron’s There is a Tree: shteyt a boim , and David Blaikie’s Farewell to Coney Island (2012, Tree Press). Claudia has edited The Haiku Canada Anthology for several years, and in 2012 co-edited Touch of a Moth , (Scrivener Press), and A Thousand Fireflies, tanka by Luminita Suse under her own Press, Bondi Studios. She is the President of KaDo, Ottawa’s haiku group.

March 16

Claudia Coutu Radmore is known for her Japanese-form poems, as well as for her lyric poetry. 

Her poem where language forms won second place in the 2010 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Awards and Accidentals, (Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa), won the 2011 bpNichol Award.  

Recent series have been Qui annus est?/ What year is this?, poems in response to: 13 – 18, PHOTOGRAPHS BY OLIVIA JOHNSTON at the Red Wall Gallery (SPAO Ottawa),  and saturation, the joy of, in response to TILT, ORCHID PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE MORRISON at the Orange Gallery, Ottawa. (2012)

Author of Your Hands Discover Me /tes mains me découvrent (2010), a minute or two/ without remembering, (2010), Ms. Radmore wrote the foreword to, and edited, Arctic Twilight; Leonard Budgell and the Changing North.(2010)

Since 2011, she has edited and published Murray Citron’s There is a Tree: shteyt a boim, and David Blaikie’s Farewell to Coney Island (2012, Tree Press). Claudia has edited The Haiku Canada Anthology for several years, and in 2012 co-edited Touch of a Moth, (Scrivener Press), and A Thousand Fireflies, tanka by Luminita Suse under her own Press, Bondi Studios.  She is the President of KaDo, Ottawa’s haiku group.

 

April 3 Susan McMaster was the 2011-12 President of the League of Canadian Poets, and is the author of 12 books and 4 recordings with First Draft and Geode Music & Poetry.

April 3

Susan McMaster was the 2011-12 President of the League of Canadian Poets, and is the author of 12 books and 4 recordings with First Draft and Geode Music & Poetry.

April 3 Colin Morton’s poetry has appeared in magazines and, in animated form, on film screens around the world. His writing varies from love lyrics to historical documentary poems to visual poems and experiments with sound and music. His ten published books include a coming-of-age novel; an homage to collage artist Kurt Schwitters; the story of Sitting Bull’s last stand in Canada; and award-winning collections of lyrics. Canada’s current poet laureate, Fred Wah, wrote that Colin’s work “demonstrates the intelligence that can still exist in poetry.”

April 3

Colin Morton’s poetry has appeared in magazines and, in animated form, on film screens around the world. His writing varies from love lyrics to historical documentary poems to visual poems and experiments with sound and music. His ten published books include a coming-of-age novel; an homage to collage artist Kurt Schwitters; the story of Sitting Bull’s last stand in Canada; and award-winning collections of lyrics. Canada’s current poet laureate, Fred Wah, wrote that Colin’s work “demonstrates the intelligence that can still exist in poetry.” 

April 19 Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT. He is the author of 12 books in all genres. His two latest releases are his new short story collection, Godless but Loyal to Heaven (Enfield & Wizenty) and his baby book, Little You (Orca Book Publishers). His novel, The Lesser Blessed , is now a major motion picture with First Generation Films. You can visit Richard on Facebook, Twitter and at www.richardvancamp.com . Mahsi cho!

April 19

Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT. He is the author of 12 books in all genres. His two latest releases are his new short story collection, Godless but Loyal to Heaven (Enfield & Wizenty) and his baby book,Little You (Orca Book Publishers). His novel, The Lesser Blessed, is now a major motion picture with First Generation Films. You can visit Richard on Facebook, Twitter and at www.richardvancamp.com. Mahsi cho!

April 19 David Groulx was raised in Northern Ontario. He is proud of his Aboriginal roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. After receiving his BA from Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize, David studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. He has published six poetry books, including A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn, 2011). His most recent poetry collection, Imagine Mercy is forthcoming from Toronto's BookLand Press.

April 19
David Groulx was raised in Northern Ontario. He is proud of his Aboriginal roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. After receiving his BA from Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize, David studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. 

He has published six poetry books, including A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn, 2011). His most recent poetry collection,Imagine Mercy is forthcoming from Toronto's BookLand Press.

Margaret Christakos has been a worker in the field of letters. Her most recent publication is the BookThug chapbook The Chips & Ties Study (2012), from a longer ongoing composition called Tumultetudes . She has been working on a variety of fiction and poetic projects this past year and conducted research in Greece and England in fall 2012 on a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. A new poetry collection called Multitudes will emerge from Coach House in fall 2013. Her publishing history of 9 books includes Welling (2010, A Globe 100 Book), What Stirs (2008, a Pat Lowther Award nominee), Sooner (2005, also shortlisted for the Lowther), and Excessive Love Prostheses (2002, winner of the ReLit Poetry Award). Other chapbooks include Adult Video (Nomados), My Girlish Feast (Belladonna) and Something Inside Me (In Case of Emergency Press). Since 2006 she has curated and facilitated Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon , and has nurtured the online magazine InfluencySalon.ca . She teaches creative writing and poetry parttime at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and works on occasion as Associate Faculty with the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA program.

Margaret Christakos has been a worker in the field of letters. Her most recent publication is the BookThug chapbook The Chips & Ties Study (2012), from a longer ongoing composition called Tumultetudes. She has been working on a variety of fiction and poetic projects this past year and conducted research in Greece and England in fall 2012 on a Chalmers Arts Fellowship. A new poetry collection called Multitudes will emerge from Coach House in fall 2013. Her publishing history of 9 books includes Welling (2010, A Globe 100 Book), What Stirs (2008, a Pat Lowther Award nominee), Sooner (2005, also shortlisted for the Lowther), and Excessive Love Prostheses (2002, winner of the ReLit Poetry Award). Other chapbooks include Adult Video (Nomados), My Girlish Feast (Belladonna) and Something Inside Me (In Case of Emergency Press). Since 2006 she has curated and facilitated Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon, and has nurtured the online magazineInfluencySalon.ca. She teaches creative writing and poetry parttime at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and works on occasion as Associate Faculty with the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA program.

April 20 Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winning On the Material (Talonbooks 2010) and three parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”: Anarchive (New Star 2005), The Commons (Talonbooks 2008), and the forthcoming To the Barricades (2013). An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks 2012).

April 20

Stephen Collis is the author of five books of poetry, including the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winning On the Material(Talonbooks 2010) and three parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”: Anarchive (New Star 2005), The Commons(Talonbooks 2008), and the forthcoming To the Barricades (2013). An activist and social critic, his writing on the Occupy movement is collected in Dispatches from the Occupation (Talonbooks 2012).