LIAR LAUNCH | DARK MATTER | NEO BENSHI

The Fall 2010 "Dark Matter" issue of THE LIAR is out!

Join editors and contributors from Capilano's student-run writing journal for an evening of poetry, fiction and live film narration. Readings at 6:30. Neo-benshi performances at 7:30.

Monday Dec 13th, 6:30 pm
The Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street (upstairs)

Info: theliarcollective AT gmail DOT com
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TWELVE SECRETS: FOURTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF FIVE-MINUTE PLAYS

The Creative Writing and Theatre (Acting for Stage and Screen) Programs at Capilano University are pleased to bring you the Fourth Annual Festival of Five Minute Plays, featuring 11 new works by Capilano students, written under the guidance of Vancouver playwright Tom Cone, and a classic by Harold Pinter.

February 8th - 11th, 7pm
Arbutus 001 (Arbutus Studio)
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way, N. Vancouver
Free (reservations recommended)

To make a reservation, please call 604-990-7979 before noon on the day you wish to attend.

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: KIM MINKUS

Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University concludes on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver poet at CapU instructor Kim Minkus:

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

Kim Minkus is the author of 9 Freight (LINEbooks 2007) and Thresh (Snare Books 2009). Other work appears in FRONT Magazine, Interim, West Coast Line, The Poetic Front, LOCUSPOINT, ottawater, Memewar and Jacket. Her academic research focuses on contemporary poetry, feminist poetry and the archive. In the spring of 2006 she was a fellow at King’s College in London, England and the archival research she completed while there lead to the publication of her book 9 Freight. Currently she is a writing instructor at Capilano University.

stripped down. crawl and stick. folds flutter. stress random stress cathexis stress stumble. bare seizure. entrails near the surface. bodily movements ratchet each emotion. they all exhaust me. tremble while you tell me it matters. glean meanings where there are none.

-- from "Station"

For info:

Roger Farr, Creative Writing Convener
rfarr@capilanou.ca

604.986.1911 (2291)

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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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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: FRED WAH

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

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University commences on Thursday, Sept. 17th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver poet, critic, and editor Fred Wah:

Arbutus 314 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Fred Wah studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960's where he was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH. After many years of teaching in the West Kootenays and at the University of Calgary, he now lives in Vancouver. He has been editorially involved with a number of literary magazines over the years, such as Open Letter and West Coast Line. Recent books are Diamond Grill, a biofiction (1996), Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, a collection of essays (2000), and two collections of poetry, Sentenced to Light (2008) and is a door (2009).


5. (that cottonwood)

Orifice foreignicity
some “it” at stake
unrecognizable in the distance
or “if” is dying
beyond meaning
truth or rust
just one call gets through
in fact they started singing
the ospreys flew off
and then a raven landed
in that cottonwood office
door thresh
holding “that”

-- from “Articualtions”


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

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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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Fall 2008 Liar Launch

The new issue of The Liar, Capilano University's creative writing student magazine, will be launched this Wednesday (December 10th) at Pat's Pub, 403 E. Hastings St., from 7:30-11:30pm.

Readings by the Fall '08 Collective and the students of Cap U (past and present), as well as the musical prowess of keyboardist and human being, LASERGIANT!

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Launch of the Capilano Art-Vending Machine!

Please come out and show your support for locally-grown talent! There will be readings by first year Capilano creative writing students and a series of chapbooks available for a nickle a piece.

Wednesday August 20th
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Café Montmartre
4362 Main Street (at 28th)

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THE SPRING 2008 LIAR!

Launch party for Capilano's creative writing magazine, with readings and live music:

April 17th, 8:00pm
HOKO Restaurant
362 Powell St., Van
free

For info:
liarsarebetterlovers@gmail.com

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: REG JOHANSON

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

The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College concludes on April 1st, 2008 with a reading by poet and critic Reg Johanson.

Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Born in Leduc, Alberta, REG JOHANSON lives in East Vancouver, BC. Courage, My Love (Line Books, 2006) brings together a selection of works that have appeared over the last decade in W magazine, the chapbook Chips (Thuja, 2001), and in the anthologies Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005) and Companions and Horizons (WCL, 2005). Critical work on Standard English as a classist and racializing disciplinary practice and on the political economy of "cheating" and plagiarism has appeared in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and as "Working Papers in Critical Practice #1" (recomposition.net); other essays on liquor policy, on "the radical" in poetry, on representations of missing women, and on global urbanization appear in West Coast Line and The Rain Review. A former member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and current co-director of the Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, Johanson teaches comp and lit at Capilano College.

"Sometimes

I want the State so bad

I can taste it.

'The world needs committed, naïve people' -- Honourable Mr. Justice Stewart, Provincial Court of BC

The Revolution will not be?

'Populist Islam and Pentecostal Christianity occupy a social space analogous to that of early twentieth century socialism and anarchism'

Could be worse. Could be The Ruckus Society.

'Canadians do not tolerate orgies or other Canadians participating in orgies.' -- Québec Judge Denis Boisvert

Bring out the pedagogue."

-- Reg Johanson, from "Variations for Jean Carle"

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

Creative Writing @ Cap College: Reading & Info-session

Tuesday March 18th
7:00 - 9:00pm
Library Room 322

Please join Capilano Creative Writing faculty and students in the Creative Writing Concentration for an evening of readings and discussion about the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing at Capilano College.

Current Creative Writing faculty and students will read from their work. Faculty will discuss the structure of the CRWR Degree, ask students what courses they might like to see offered in the future, and talk about recent developments, including new courses, a new $1000 entrance scholarship for high-school students, and internships with The Capilano Review. Representatives from two student-run publications, The Capilano Courier and The Liar, will also be present to talk about how to get involved in Capilano’s lively writing community.

Open to all!

For more information contact:
Roger Farr
Creative Writing Convener

604.986.1911 (2554)

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: ROB BUDDE

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


The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 with a reading by Prince George poet Rob Budde:

Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Northern BC. His books include traffick (Turnstone, 1994), Misshapen (NeWest Press, 1997) and The Dying Poem (Coach House, 2002), and, most recently, Flicker. In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). His most recent book of poetry is Finding Ft. George (Harbour, 2007), a collection of poems about his growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. Budde edits an online literary journal, stonestone, and a poetry blog writingwaynorth.

“holes filled bilaterally

landed self-serve or immigrant;

promise, missile, demise


Capital expansion and deficit re-election orders of the delay and consumer relations department making strange bedfellows in fiscal mission position, the hard headboard of directors knocking up the catch phrase, knocking down our dormant queues, ballot-boxed. The party system the morning after and fragments of memory missing.


this mission, locked

me, missing-in-action again

the prom’s dead”


-- from “3 Promises; A Renegue”

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

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http://www.capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: CLAIRE HUOT & ROBERT MAJZELS, FEB 12th

Sponsored by Writer's Union of Canada
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College

The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on February 12th, 2008 with a presentation by Calgary & Montreal poets, playwrights, novelists, and translators Claire Huot and Robert Majzels. Majzels and Huot will present a collaborative, multi-media talk that addresses the reception of classical Chinese poetry into English.

Tuesday, February 12th
Library 321 @ 3:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

CLAIRE HUOT has lived in and out of China for the past 20 years. Fully trilingual (French, English and Mandarin), she has written two books on contemporary Chinese culture— La Petite révolution culturelle, (Arles, France, 1994) and China's New Cultural Scene (Duke University Press, USA, 2000). The Prison Tangram is her first book of fiction. Huot is currently teaching Chinese film at the University of Calgary and has a feature column, in Chinese, in New World, a Chinese cultural magazine.

ROBERT MAJZELS is a novelist, playwright, poet and translator, born in Montréal, Québec. The Humbugs Diet is his fourth novel. In 2007, he won the Alcuin Society Prize for Excellence in Book Design for the limited edition of his book, Apikoros Sleuth. This Night the Kapo, his award winning full-length play, was produced at the Berkley Street Theatre in Toronto, in March 2004. He was attributed the Governor General's Award of Canada for his translation of France Daigle's Just Fine in 2000. With Erin Moure, Robert has also translated several books of poetry by Nicole Brossard. He is presently an Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Calgary.

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

OPEN TEXT READING: JAMIE REID

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

The SPRING 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday January 24th, 2008 with a reading by North Vancouver poet, editor, and cultural organizer Jamie Reid.

Thursday, January 24th
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

JAMIE REID was one of the founding editors of TISH, the well-known West Coast poetry magazine from the early 1960s. After publishing his first book, The Man Whose Path Was On Fire in 1969, he became a political activist for nearly twenty years, returning to the West Coast and the the practice of poetry in 1987. He has published three collections of poetry since while acting for several years as editor and publisher of DaDaBaBy, a magazine of poetry and commentary. I. Another. The Space Between, his most recent poetry collection, was published by Talonbooks in 2004.


"At this very moment the forces
calling themselves the forces of civilization,
of progress and of order are preparing
a chaotic disaster
for millions of poor people
far from their centres of power and influence,
all of this accompanied by the widespread use of
dangerous substances, death-dealing metals and chemicals. etc.
And still they have now begun to talk
of cleaning up the earth,
as if we should believe them."


-- Jamie Reid


For more info, contact:

Roger Farr, Capilano College
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)

FIRST OPEN TEXT READING OF 2008: OANA AVASILICHIOAEI

The 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College begins on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 with a reading by Montreal poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei.

LB 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

OANA AVASILICHIOAEI is poet and translator. She has published a collection of poems (Abandon, Wolsak & Wynn, 2005), and a translation of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu (Occupational Sickness, BuschekBooks, 2006). Her next book, feria: a poempark will be coming out in 2009 (Wolsak & Wynn). She has given readings and talks in Canada, USA, Spain and Slovenia and frequently teaches creative writing courses at Dawson College in Montreal, where she also coordinates the Atwater Poetry Project reading series ( www.atwaterlibrary.ca/poetry). Currently, she is translating some work from French Quebecois poets, collaborating with Erín Moure on a dialogic work involving translation, and working on a new project of her own poetry that explores and entangles the language of fairytales. She lives in Montreal.


I thought I could loose language and think freely like an animal. I fought with my own tongue.

Then language allowed me other linguas and limbs and I was free once more.

I loved again.


For a time the sky was an opera and we all listened.

For one brief moment no boundary was at war.

For one brief moment no boundary was a boundary.


-- from, "Il Giardino Italiano" (feria: a poempark, forthcoming)



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

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: THREE NORTHERN POETS

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


"The north moves north. / The song is an article of evidence."

– Ken Belford


The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on November 20th, 2007 with a reading by three Northern poets: Ken Belford, Rob Budde, and Si Transken.

Tuesday, November 20th
Library 197 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

KEN BELFORD was born to a farming family near DeBolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. For 35 years he lived in the remote, unroaded Nass River headwaters at Damdochax Lake. His gaze is of subsistence and the other, in that he looks out at the consumptive habits of western culture from the mountains. In addition to 15 chapbooks. he has published four books of poetry; Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways Into the Mountains, and ecologue. His most recent chapbook, from Nomados, is When Snakes Awaken. Difficult to categorize, Belford's poetics blend borders. He is a self-educated land(d)guage poet who mixes a learned pre-industrial knowledge with the push and pull of the questions, conversations, and what he sees as new linguistic possibilities.

ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing at the University of Northern BC. He has published five books (two poetry - Catch as Catch and traffick - two novels - Misshapen and The Dying Poem - and, most recently, short fiction - Flicker). In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). Finding Ft. George (Caitlin 2007) is a collection of poems about Rob's growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. He lives in Prince George with his partner, Debbie Keahey and four children: Robin, Erin, Quinlan, and Anya. Check out his online literary journal called stonestone <http://stonestone.unbc.ca> and his poetry blog writingwaynorth <http://writingwaynorth.blogspot.com>.

SI TRANSKEN uses her creative writing to educate, vent, stir up troubles and joys, have fun and accomplish solidarity. She reads at Gay Pride, Women's fundraisers and other social justice events. She has been an activist in these movements for more than two decades. Si works at a shelter with drug addicted/ homeless/ survival sex trade workers. In her ivory tower roles she teaches for two universities in sociology, women's studies and social work. Entirely unbelievably she gets people laughing. Her work has been published in scholarly contexts such as Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies, Atlantis, Canadian Women's Studies and her funky stuff has been published in contexts such as This Ain¹t Your Patriarchs' Poetry Book; Groping Beyond Grief; Stress (Full) Sister (Hood); and Battle Chants.


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

OPEN TEXT READING: JEFF DERKSEN

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


The Fall 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on November 19th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet and critic Jeff Derksen.

LIBRARY 195 @ 12:30
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

JEFF DERKSEN's first book Downtime (Talon, 1991), received the Dorothy Livesay B.C. Poetry Prize. Other works include Until (Tsunami, 1987), Dwell (Talonbooks, 1993), and Transnational Muscle Cars (Talonbooks, 2003). A founder of the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, Derksen is also a highly regarded critic of globalization, culture and urbanization. He teaches writing and literature at Simon Fraser University.

"Phatic Weather"

I just want
the connection to be
inked in or intruded
on. So I can enter

an individual history
of my group.

The truck driving
beside the bus
appears not to move, mimicking
a model of one culture
viewing another.

Here the light
of heavy industry
doesn't mar the river
as much as it now
makes it.

New. Compensation's body
is a green image, arms
filled with lumber. But production's
miracle is its occurrence, oiling
a century. Our role
is the crisis. Sliding
so I can clarify
a centralized management

in this continuous present
of product, "excess," resource.

A company's head office
puts down roots: "Caring Hands
Extended out to Our Multicultural
Community." The question

of "also" is contextual.

-- from "Dwell" (Talon, 1993)

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