OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: KEN BELFORD

Sponsored by the 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 29th, 2009 with a reading by Prince George poet Ken Belford:

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

In addition to 18 chapbooks, Ken Belford has published five books of poetry: Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways Into the Mountains, ecologue and lan(d)guage. Difficult to categorize, Belford’s poetics blend borders. He is a self-educated land(d)guage poet who mixes a learned and lived pre-industrial knowledge with the push and pull of present-day questions, conversations, and what he sees as new linguistic possibilities.

“The surface particulars – rivers, mountains, forest, lakes and all that live there – act not as backdrop but as the literal and imaginative source for the poem and the necessary syntax Belford generates and inhabits. His poems are ongoing, large and politically dimensional, brave in their opposition to any traditional practice that would diminish what the new poem must reveal.” – Barry McKinnon

I trust, not in men or their systems,

but in women, and I don’t care about

saving time, or covering more space.

Writing of cities is about power

and class, and poems about place

are towns that look alike. The only

thing that differentiates them is

the memories in the buildings of authority,

where memory is manufactured,

and time is not money, but space.

When we remember together, other

memories are silenced and called heritage

in the space of a few hours, broadcast

into every room until the storage capacity

is full. Clock time is something signaling

the total, but the way I remember, what

I heard was about the succession

of forms and temporal complexity.

Anyway, I was distracted and inattentive,

and looking for some breathing space,

an opening or break, something I could

say in the company of strangers.

– from lan(d)guage: a sequence of poetics

Upcoming Readings:

• Nov 12: Kim Minkus

For info:
Roger Farr, Creative Writing Convener
rfarr@capilanou.ca

604.986.1911 (2291)

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: TED BYRNE & EMILY FEDORUK

Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 with readings by Vancouver poets Ted Byrne and Emily Fedoruk:

LIB 188 @ 11:30 (note new room)
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

TED BYRNE. Born Hamilton, Ontario, 1947. Lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, late 60s. Worked as welder, fitter, typist, dishwasher, laundry worker, truck driver, cab driver. Re-educated early 70s: Basil Bunting (Victoria), Robin Blaser and other SFU teachers, especially Jerry Zaslove, Anthony Wilden, Michael Lebowitz and Jane Harris. Avoided the English Department as much as possible. Worked in libraries late 70s early 80s. Shop steward. Union rep in feminist union (AUCE Local 1). MA (Comparative Literature) UBC. Late 80s to present, Trade Union Research Bureau. Member of Kootenay School of Writing collective. Author of Aporia (Fissure/Point Blank) and Beautiful Lies (CUE, 2008; published serially, Raddle Moon, Sprang Texts, W, Thuja). Current project: Sonnets: Louise Labé (West Coast Line, W, Onsets, The Gig).

EMILY FEDORUK is a poet and dancer living in New Westminster, BC. An MA candidate at Simon Fraser University, she is currently conducting research into the social space of malls and their representation in contemporary art and literature. Her first book, All Still, was published in Fall 2008 by Linebooks.


Upcoming Readings:

• Oct 29: Ken Belford
• Nov 12: Kim Minkus

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

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: KIM DUFF & CHRISTINE LECLERC

Sponsored by The Writer’s Union of Canada
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 with readings by Vancouver poets Kim Duff and Christine Leclerc:

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

KIM DUFF is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, where she is studying contemporary British literature, Thatcherism, privitization and urban spatial theory. Her previous research has included avant-garde poetry and urban spatial logic. Her book of poetryTube Sock Army was published by LINEbooks in 2008.

Christine Leclerc, originally from Montreal, now lives in Vancouver. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in 42opus, Dig, FRONT, FU, Memewar, OCHO, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, the Worksound gallery, and is forthcoming in Interim. Leclerc is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published by Capilano University Editions (CUE Books) in 2008. She teaches creative writing at Langara College, Continuing Studies.

Upcoming Readings:

• Oct 22: Ted Byrne and Emily Fedoruk
• Oct 29: Ken Belford
• Nov 12: Kim Minkus

For info:
Roger Farr, Creative Writing Convener
rfarr@capilanou.ca

604.986.1911 (2291)

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