Open Text Reading Series:
Barry McKinnon and Shane Rhodes
Thursday, November 15
11:30 am – 1pm
LB322
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Barry
McKinnon has published nine books of poetry (most recently In
the Millennium, New Star, 2009 and The Centre: Poems
1970-2000, Talonbooks, 2004) and countless chapbooks. His
book, The the was nominated for the Governor General’s Award
for poetry in 1980. Pulp Log won the Dorothy Livesay
Poetry Award in 1991, and Arrhythmia was the winner of the bp
Nichol Chapbook Award for the best chapbook published in Canada in English in
1994. His chapbook Surety Disappears was the runner-up for the
bp Nichol Award in 2008.
Shane
Rhodes is the author of The Wireless Room, Holding
Pattern, The Bindery (all with NeWest Press), and Err (Nightwood
Editions in 2011). Shane’s awards include an Alberta Book Award for poetry, two
Lampman-Scott Awards, the P. K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry, and the most
recent National Magazine Award for poetry. Shane’s poetry has been featured in
the anthologies Breathing Fire II, Seminal: Canada’s Gay Male Poets, and Best Canadian Poetry in English
2008 and 2011. Shane is the poetry editor for Arc.
Open to the public. Free. Everyone welcome.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for this reading.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for this reading.
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