OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: REG JOHANSON

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College

The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College concludes on April 1st, 2008 with a reading by poet and critic Reg Johanson.

Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Born in Leduc, Alberta, REG JOHANSON lives in East Vancouver, BC. Courage, My Love (Line Books, 2006) brings together a selection of works that have appeared over the last decade in W magazine, the chapbook Chips (Thuja, 2001), and in the anthologies Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005) and Companions and Horizons (WCL, 2005). Critical work on Standard English as a classist and racializing disciplinary practice and on the political economy of "cheating" and plagiarism has appeared in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and as "Working Papers in Critical Practice #1" (recomposition.net); other essays on liquor policy, on "the radical" in poetry, on representations of missing women, and on global urbanization appear in West Coast Line and The Rain Review. A former member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and current co-director of the Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, Johanson teaches comp and lit at Capilano College.

"Sometimes

I want the State so bad

I can taste it.

'The world needs committed, naïve people' -- Honourable Mr. Justice Stewart, Provincial Court of BC

The Revolution will not be?

'Populist Islam and Pentecostal Christianity occupy a social space analogous to that of early twentieth century socialism and anarchism'

Could be worse. Could be The Ruckus Society.

'Canadians do not tolerate orgies or other Canadians participating in orgies.' -- Québec Judge Denis Boisvert

Bring out the pedagogue."

-- Reg Johanson, from "Variations for Jean Carle"

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

Poetry, Video, Music: The Capilano Review launches its Collaboration issue 3.4

The Capilano Review announces the launch of the Collaborations Issue 3.4. Join us at the Western Front on March 28 at 7:30pm. Hear poets Ted Byrne, Larissa Lai and Rita Wong; see and hear an excerpt from the recording of Hadley+Maxwell and Stefan Smulovitz’s “(The Rest Is Missing)” with Turning Point Ensemble; and hear live performances of song room pieces “unselected works” by Viviane Houle, Stefan Smulovitz, Andrew Klobucar; “Occupying Army” by Vanessa Richards, John Korsrud, Chris Derksen; and more.

Tickets: $5

March 28, 7:30pm
Western Front
303 8th Avenue East
Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1
(604) 876-9343

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: LOUIS RASTELLI

Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College

The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 with a reading by Montreal novelist and small-press organizer, Louis Rastelli:

Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

LOUIS RASTELLI is the author of A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press, 2007). His writing has appeared in Vice, Clamor, Saturday Night, The Montreal Mirror and numerous other publications, as well as in a series of miniature books of short stories and historical essays. In 2001, Rastelli created the Distroboto network of cultural vending machines, which are former cigarette machines converted to sell local art, crafts, music, film and writing in cafés and bars. In 2002, along with other small publishers, he co-founded Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press, comic and zine fair; he also co-founded Archive Montreal, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the various ephemeral creations that flow steadily out of the independent cultural scene of the city. Since 1996, he has published Fish Piss Magazine, named “Canada’s best zine” by Broken Pencil. He lives in Montreal.


“It’s like Mother Nature’s revenge,” said Stephanie.

“But I wish we could say, okay, we learned our lesson, can
you bring the power back now?”

I told Stephanie about the big building projects I worked on at my day job and described a photo I’d seen of an aluminium smelter. Huge mounds of raw materials, shipped in by rail, sat at one end of the smelter, and rows of trucks loaded up massive bars of aluminium at the other end.

“And that’s only to get the aluminium into all the factories that make stuff,” I said. “Those raw materials have to get chewed up and regurgitated a lot of times before they become a pop can.

“If the machines and factories stopped working completely, we’d have to make stuff by hand again. Or at least add some treadmills or something to run the machines with, like those old sewing machines with the foot pedals.”

“My grandmother had one of those!” Stephanie said.

“I wish I had one of those right now. It would help me stay warm too.”

While we were still on the phone, my power came back on.


-- Louis Rastelli, from “A Fine Ending” (Insomniac, 2007)


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

Creative Writing @ Cap College: Reading & Info-session

Tuesday March 18th
7:00 - 9:00pm
Library Room 322

Please join Capilano Creative Writing faculty and students in the Creative Writing Concentration for an evening of readings and discussion about the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing at Capilano College.

Current Creative Writing faculty and students will read from their work. Faculty will discuss the structure of the CRWR Degree, ask students what courses they might like to see offered in the future, and talk about recent developments, including new courses, a new $1000 entrance scholarship for high-school students, and internships with The Capilano Review. Representatives from two student-run publications, The Capilano Courier and The Liar, will also be present to talk about how to get involved in Capilano’s lively writing community.

Open to all!

For more information contact:
Roger Farr
Creative Writing Convener

604.986.1911 (2554)

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: ROB BUDDE

Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College


The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 with a reading by Prince George poet Rob Budde:

Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Northern BC. His books include traffick (Turnstone, 1994), Misshapen (NeWest Press, 1997) and The Dying Poem (Coach House, 2002), and, most recently, Flicker. In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). His most recent book of poetry is Finding Ft. George (Harbour, 2007), a collection of poems about his growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. Budde edits an online literary journal, stonestone, and a poetry blog writingwaynorth.

“holes filled bilaterally

landed self-serve or immigrant;

promise, missile, demise


Capital expansion and deficit re-election orders of the delay and consumer relations department making strange bedfellows in fiscal mission position, the hard headboard of directors knocking up the catch phrase, knocking down our dormant queues, ballot-boxed. The party system the morning after and fragments of memory missing.


this mission, locked

me, missing-in-action again

the prom’s dead”


-- from “3 Promises; A Renegue”

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

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http://www.capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com