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: DONATO MANCINI

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 Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 with a reading by Vancouver poet Donato Mancini:

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

DONATO MANCINI's first book of poetry Ligatures (New Star Books 2005) was shortlisted for a ReLit award. His second book, Æthel, appeared in the Fall of 2007. A graduate student at Simon Fraser University, he is now at work on a study of reviews of postmodern poetry in Canada since 1961, and recently edited the new website for the Kootenay School of Writing.

"Reports from the reality-based community
sound out: Ronald Reagan
was a really nice guy,
much nicer than Khrushchev,
Gorbachev, Nardwuar, or
which modernist shut-in was it
who threw his sculpture –
or was it his wife? – out the window,
in which period of architecture
at what stage of empire?"

-- from "Hot Peace" (West Coast Line 51)

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

OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: LARISSA LAI

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, February 21st, 2008 with a reading by Vancouver poet, novelist, and critic Larissa Lai:

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

LARISSA LAI is the author of two novels When Fox Is a Thousand (Press Gang 1995, Arsenal Pulp 2004) and Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen Publishers 2002). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. From January to June 2006, she was a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. She recently held a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship in the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature there. She is currently working on a sequel to Salt Fish Girl, a collection of long poems called automaton biographies, and a critical book called The "I" of the Storm about strategies of subject production. Forthcoming from LINEbooks is Sybil Unrest, a long poem in collaboration with Rita Wong.

"see them drudge
your sensitive ignorance
pressures mechanical
engines steam temperature's limit
we race clocks
labour abstracts more labour
cogs flash lights
in blue boilers they
repeat your fear
in mathematics of your own making"

-- from "Maria" (West Coast Line 44)

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

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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)

Capilano Creative Writing Program Kick-Off!

Pat's Pub, 403 E. Hastings
Tuesday Sept. 18th
8:00 pm

Please join past, present, and future students of Capilano College for an open-mic reading to celebrate the new Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing. All past and present Capilano creative writing students and faculty are invited to sign up to read.

To sign up, or for more information, contact Reg Johanson:

E: <rjohanso@capcollege.bc.ca>
T: 604. 986. 1911 (2428)

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The Associate of Arts degree with a Creative Writing Concentration combines instruction and practice in both creative and critical writing, hosts the Open Text Reading Series, supports a student magazine (The Liar), and provides internships, scholarships, bursaries, and awards. Students who complete the program obtain first and second-year transfer credit in both English and Creative Writing, allowing them to major or minor in either subject should they decide to transfer to university.

Check out: <http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/programs/english/creative-writing.html>

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