OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: CAMILLE MARTIN

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

The Spring 2010 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, March 25^th with a reading by Toronto poet and collage artist Camille Martin:

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

Camille Martin is the author of Sonnets (Shearsman, 2010) and Codes of Public Sleep (Toronto: BookThug, 2007), in addition to several earlier chapbooks. Her work has been widely published in journals in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She has received numerous grants to further her writing, most recently from the Ontario Arts Council for work on a long poem based on her Acadian/Cajun heritage. She earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. in English at Louisiana State University. Currently she teaches writing and literature at Ryerson University.

plotting unawares the direction of impulse

(which is to say, not plotting at all).

on the verge of pronouncing a shabby

but proud apostrophe. exploiting

bogus entropy to veer off the path wholly

engaged in blended lies and woven

tales. freebasing fiction, hard up

as a blindfolded gambler. desiring

against all the evidence to be duped again

by blinkering syllables as plain as

a bunch of sunflowers peering

through village fog. declaiming a reckless

arabesque to patch up severed

nerve endings with dumb surds.

-- from Sonnets

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

604.986.1911 (2291)

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http://www.capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: GEORGE STANLEY

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, The Capilano Review, and the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Spring 2010 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University begins on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 with a reading by Vancouver poet -- and current TCR Writer in Residence -- George Stanley:

Cedar 148 @ 11:30

Capilano University

2055 Purcell Way

North Vancouver

George Stanley was born in San Francisco and moved to Vancouver in the 1970s. He is a former faculty member of the English Department at Capilano University. His books include Gentle Northern Summer (New Star 1995), At Andy's (New Star 2000), his selected poems, A Tall, Serious Girl (Qua Books 2003), and Vancouver: A Poem (New Star 2008). In 2006 Stanley won the Poetry Society of America’s annual Shelley Award.

Upcoming Readings:

• Christian Bok
• Camile Martin
• Garry Morse
• Lisa Robertson

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

604.986.1911 (2291)

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http://www.capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com

TCR Writer in Residence - George Stanley, March 8th - 19th, 2010

George Stanley will be TCR Writer in Residence at Capilano from March 8th-19th.

Writers of any level of experience are invited to make an appointment to discuss their work. Geroge will be available for 45 min sessions. Manuscripts should be submitted in advance.

Please contact the TCR office, FIR 456, at 604.984.1712 or tcr@capilanou.ca

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Hear George Stanley reading:

• March 18th at 11:30 am
  

• Cedar 148

George Stanley was born in San Francisco and moved to Vancouver in the 1970s. He is a former faculty member in the English Department at Capilano University. His books include Gentle Northern Summer (New Star 1995), At Andy's (New Star 2000), his selected poems, A Tall, Serious Girl (Qua Books 2003), and Vancouver: A Poem (New Star 2008). In 2006 Stanley won the Poetry Society of America’s annual Shelley Award.

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