Friday, March 23, 2007

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #5: MAXINE GADD


OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #5: MAXINE GADD

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

The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on March 29th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet Maxine Gadd.

> Cedar 148 @ 12:30
> Capilano College
> 2055 Purcell Way
> North Vancouver

MAXINE GADD is the author of numerous books of poetry, among them Lost Language (Coach House, 1982), Fire in the Cove (m(O)ther Tongue, 2001), and most recently, Backup to Babylon (New Star, 2006), which is a poetry finalist in the 2007 BC Book Prizes.


"coming up powell street into the rising sun

me feeling soft and gentle as an old lady who has done no wrong

who gave birth to children like butter

and kept them alive in apple trees

who took them all swimming in the one big sea

and now has been set free

to enter her City"


-- from "Greenstone Cove," Backup to Babylon


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

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