OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: ROY MIKI

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

The Spring 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver critic, editor, poet and teacher Roy Miki:

Library 321 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

ROY MIKI is the author of Justice in Our Time (co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi) (Talonbooks 1991), two books of poems, Saving Face (Turnstone 1991) and Random Access File (Red Deer College Press 1995), and a collection of critical essays, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Mercury Press 1998). His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. His two most recent publications are Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), and There (New Star Books 2006), a book of poems. He received the Order of Canada in 2006.

For info:
Reg Johanson
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)

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Open Text Reading Series: Spring 2009

Tuesday Feb. 10 11:30-1 LB321
Originally from Coquitlam, British Columbia, JORDAN SCOTT now wanders between the Pacific and the Shield. Jordan’s first book of poetry, Silt (New Star Books), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In the fall of 2006, Jordan worked on the final sections of blert while acting as a writer in residence at the International Writers’ and Translators’ Centre in Rhodes, Greece.


Thursday Feb. 26 11:30-1 LB 321
DAPHNE MARLATT After moving from Malaysia to Vancouver in 1951, Marlatt attained her BA from the University of British Columbia in 1964, MA in Comparative Literature from Indiana University in 1968, and LL.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1996. After publishing poetry for many years, she published two novels, Ana Historic (1988) and Taken (1996), and numerous critical articles. Most recently Marlatt has edited Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka by Roy Kiyooka.


Thursday March 5 11:30-1 LB 321
ROY MIKI is a writer, poet, and editor who lives in Vancouver. He is the author of Justice in Our Time (co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi) (Talonbooks 1991), two books of poems, Saving Face (Turnstone 1991) and Random Access File (Red Deer College Press 1995), and a collection of critical essays, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Mercury Press 1998). His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. His two most recent publications are Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), and There (New Star Books 2006), a book of poems. He received the Order of Canada in 2006.

Thursday March 12 11:30-1 AR 314
ROGER FARR is the author of SURPLUS (LINEbooks, 2006), a co-author (with Reg Johanson and Aaron Vidaver) of N 49 19. 47 - W 123 8.11 (Recomposition Books, 2008), and the editor of PARSER: New Poetry and Poetics. Recent poetry, micro-fiction, and critical writing appears or is forthcoming in Anarchist Studies, Boog City, The Capilano Review, The Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution, Fifth Estate, Matrix, Magazine Minima, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, The Poetic Front, The Rain Review, W, West Coast Line, and XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. In 2005 he edited the “6 Cities” issue of The Capilano Review; currently he is editing a three-volume anthology of contemporary Canadian poetry and poetics, Open Text: Canadian Poetry in The 21st Century (CUE, 2008). His work has been heard on the airwaves of Anarchy Radio in Eugene, Oregon; Free Radio Olympia and KAOS FM in Washington State; and Tree Frog Radio, Denman Island, BC.


Thursday March 19 11:30-1 LB 321
PHINDER DULAI is the author of two books of poetry: Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp Press 1995); and Basmati Brown (Nightwood Editions 2000). His work has been published in various journals: West Coast Line, The Capilano Review, Memewar Magazine, Rungh, Ankur and Matrix. His work is also found in a number of anthologies: Making a Difference – Canadian Multicultural Literature (OUP 2006) and Companions and Horizons – Anthology of SFU Poetry 40th Year anniversary (2005). As a South Asian Canadian writer interested in post colonial Diaspora perspectives, Dulai works in diffusing and exploring these roots through the contemporary poetics.


Thursday April 2 11:30-1 LB 321
The author of a book of poems entitled Virgin Bones (McGilligan Press, 2007), SHIRLEY BEAR is a multi-media artist, writer, activist, and native traditional herbalist. Born on the Tobique First Nation, she is an original member of the Wabnaki language group of New Brunswick, Canada. Shirley Bear was the 2002 recipient of the Excellence in the Arts Award from the New Brunswick Arts Board.


Contact: Reg Johanson, Creative Writing Convener


The Open Text Series is brought to you by the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing, The English Department, The Humanities Division, The Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Canada Council.


For information on the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing, see www.capilanou.ca/programs/english/creative-writing.html.


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TRACING THE LINES

TRACING THE LINES:
A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics
and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Miki

May 28th to 31st, 2008
Vancouver BC

<http://tracingthelines.net>

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Wednesday May 28: 7:30 PM
Studio 41, CBC Building, 775 Cambie Street (at West Georgia St)
Chair: Sophie McCall
Opening remarks: Michael Stevenson, President, SFU
Tom Grieve, Chair, Department of English, SFU
Reading by Roy Miki. Introduced by Daphne Marlatt
Reception: sponsored by The Department of English, SFU

Thursday May 29
DAYTIME events at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova (at Gore)
9:30 Welcome: Larissa Lai
9:40-11:00 REPRESENTATION AND COALITIONS(S).
Rita Wong (moderator)
Jeannette Armstrong, Scott Toguri McFarlane, Jamelie Hassan
11:00-11:30: REGISTRATION and coffee break
11:30-1:00: ASIANCY.
Christine Kim (moderator)
Monika Kin Gagnon, Phinder Dulai, David Fujino, Hiromi Goto
1:00-2:00: Lunch break
2:00-3:30: CONTEMPORARY POETICS.
Roger Farr (moderator)
Louis Cabri, the Sibyls, Mark Nowak
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-5:15: EDITORIAL ACTIVISM.
Glen Lowry (moderator)
Michael Barnholden, Jacqueline Larson, Wayde Compton, Walter K. Lew

EVENING 8:00 PM Anza Club, 3 West 8th (between Main & Cambie)
Gala launch/reading of West Coast Line, The Roy Miki issue.
Edited by Fred Wah, featuring work by Miki's friends, compatriots, former students and colleagues: George Bowering, Jacqueline Larson, Daphne Marlatt, Garry Thomas Morse, & many many more. Cash Bar. Sponsored by West Coast Line and The Kootenay School of Writing.

Friday, May 30
DAYTIME program at Firehall Art Centre, 280 East Cordova (at Gore)
10:00-11:30: POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION.
Ashok Mathur (moderator)
Susan Crean, Jeff Derksen, Marwan Hassan, Marie Annharte Baker
11:30-11:45: coffee break
11:45-1:15: ART OF REDRESS.
Kirsten Emiko McAllister (moderator)
Cindy Mochizuki, Baco Ohama, Grace Eiko Thomson, Mona Oikawa
1:15-2:15: Lunch
2:15-4:15-GENERATIVE GENERATIONS.
Tara Lee (moderator)
Alessandra Capperdoni, Nicole Markotic, Mark Nakada, Jerry Zaslove
4:15-4:30: Closing remarks by Jacqueline Larson
4:30-5:30: cash bar

EVENING: 8:30 PM Party at Ashok Mathur's house

Saturday, May 31
7:30 PM at St John's College, 2111 Lower Mall, UBC
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
"'i have altered the tactics to reflect the new era':
Intellectuals, Accountability, and Politics"
by Smaro Kamboureli
Introduced by David Chariandy
Discussion, reception and book display to follow

For program details and other information, see <http://tracingthelines.net>