OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: ANGELA CARR

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

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday October 8th, 2009 with a reading by Montreal poet and translator, Angela Carr.

• CE 148 @ 11:30
• Capilano University
• 2055 Purcell Way
• North Vancouver

Angela Carr is the author of Ropewalk (2006) and, more recently, the Rose Concordance (2009), which masquerades as a translation of the keyword index to a medieval French allegory. She has published in Canada and internationally, and her poetry has been translated into French and Slovene. Angela Carr is based in Montreal, where she makes her living as a translator of history.

“The anarchy of the fountain is an absence of water Instead buffeting violet light on the downward arc from a splendidly perched upper basin

The upper basin is important, not unlike colour, to any notion of the authentic The upper basin is intrinsic yet supplemental, a bird’s perch, an unattainable accessory both toweringly majestic and superfluous like a figure head whose style is a belated container a raised basin for grey areas”

-- from “Sleep Water”

For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2291)

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: FRED WAH

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

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University commences on Thursday, Sept. 17th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver poet, critic, and editor Fred Wah:

Arbutus 314 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Fred Wah studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960's where he was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH. After many years of teaching in the West Kootenays and at the University of Calgary, he now lives in Vancouver. He has been editorially involved with a number of literary magazines over the years, such as Open Letter and West Coast Line. Recent books are Diamond Grill, a biofiction (1996), Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, a collection of essays (2000), and two collections of poetry, Sentenced to Light (2008) and is a door (2009).


5. (that cottonwood)

Orifice foreignicity
some “it” at stake
unrecognizable in the distance
or “if” is dying
beyond meaning
truth or rust
just one call gets through
in fact they started singing
the ospreys flew off
and then a raven landed
in that cottonwood office
door thresh
holding “that”

-- from “Articualtions”


For info:
Roger Farr, Creative Writing Convener
rfarr@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2291)

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