The Liar Spring 2007 Launch

The Liar Spring 2007 Launch

Tuesday April 3 @ 9 p.m.
Cafe Deux Soleils
2096 Commercial Drive
Recommended Donation: $2

featuring readings by the Liar collective,
& musical performances by Junior Major and Lasergiant.

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #5: MAXINE GADD

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #5: MAXINE GADD
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano College

The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on March 29th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet Maxine Gadd.

> Cedar 148 @ 12:30
> Capilano College
> 2055 Purcell Way
> North Vancouver

MAXINE GADD is the author of numerous books of poetry, among them Lost Language (Coach House, 1982), Fire in the Cove (m(O)ther Tongue, 2001), and most recently, Backup to Babylon (New Star, 2006), which is a poetry finalist in the 2007 BC Book Prizes.

"coming up powell street into the rising sun

me feeling soft and gentle as an old lady who has done no wrong

who gave birth to children like butter

and kept them alive in apple trees

who took them all swimming in the one big sea

and now has been set free

to enter her City"

-- from "Greenstone Cove," Backup to Babylon

For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #4: ANNE STONE

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #4: ANNE STONE
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College

The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver author Anne Stone.

Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Anne Stone is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she is currently guest editing a special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her novels include, jacks (DC Books 1998), Hush (Insomniac Press 1999) and Delible (forthcoming, Insomniac, 2007), which tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. Stone teaches creative writing & literature at Capilano College in North Vancouver, and at Concordia University in Montreal.

"Everything has a beginning. My sister's disappearance has to have one. There has to be a time, a moment, in which she began to disappear.

I've looked for some sign that Mel was poised to leave. Maybe it was there in the world she saw around us, the one that was slowly dying as we pretended not to see. Or in her dreams of the a-bomb, quietly imploding in our mouths as we slept, shattering millions on millions of teeth. A city's worth of polished bone, demolished in an instant. And what could any of us do but stir in our sleep, lick at broken mouths, and feel ourselves already dead, this as the fire consumed the part of us that could dream of bombs to begin with."

-- from Delible

For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)

[Coming soon: Maxine Gadd, March 29th]

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #3: DOROTHY TRUJILLO LUSK

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #3: DOROTHY TRUJILLO LUSK
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College

The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on March 15h, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet Dorothy Trujillo Lusk.

Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is the author of Oral Tragedy (Tsunami, 1988), Redactive (Talon, 1993), Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000) and the forthcoming collection Decorum. Lusk is a longtime member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective.


“Tooling,
around in a Chevy II, cheaper parts. Half a sack and half a tank.
This’s the accurate medical term for doughnuts.


The chassis of the mother embodying
the central contradictions
between means and relations of
production &/or sag of surplus value.”


-- from Ogress Oblige


For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)

http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com

[Coming soon: Anne Stone, Maxine Gadd]

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #2: MARIE ANNHARTE BAKER

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #2: MARIE ANNHARTE BAKER
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano College


The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Weds. March 7th, 2007 with a reading by Anishinabe poet, educator, and activist, Marie Annharte Baker.

Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Co-founder of the Regina Aboriginal Writers Group, Marie Annharte Baker is the author of several books, including Being on the Moon (Polestar, 1990), Coyote Columbus Cafe (Moonprint, 1994), Blueberry Canoe (New Star, 2001), and Exercises in Lip Pointing (New Star, 2003). She divides her time between Vancouver and Manitoba.

yuppie begging bowl

passerby please note us
stuck on camera lens close up
pray our your shell out fills
latte foam bowl slow mo
cash flow scene slow pan
cut broke balance fixated
roll plastic survivance level
bank machine movie stake out

treaty bowl number one
fun filled topped up intrigue
warranty less years but ears
clear new diction air words
cotton swab stuck syndrome
block drumming manifesto

step up to bowl number two
white shiny to let us bowl
real tight ass titan squirm
condo minimum convenience
bowling down alley strikes
we're good check the gate
missing heirs women split

For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)

http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com


[Coming soon: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Anne Stone, Maxine Gadd]