Monday, February 19, 2007
Peter Culley: March 1st | 12:30 | CE 136
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT reading series begins on March 1st with a reading by Nanaimo poet Peter Culley, who will be reading from his new work, "The Age of Briggs & Stratton."
12:30
Capilano College
Cedar 136
Peter Culley, poet and art critic, has published Twenty-one (Oolican 1980), Fruit Dots (Tsunami 1985), Natural History (Fissure 1986) The Climax Forest (Leech, 1995) and Hammertown (New Star, 2003). The untitled second installment of Hammertown is due from New Star in the fall of '08. His writing on artists such as Stan Douglas, Roy Arden, Kelly Wood and Geoffrey Farmer has appeared in numerous catalogues and journals. Culley resides in South Wellington, near Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, BC.
L'Orphee
So much of L' Orphee
plays in the grim middle-aged way
poor Spicer never lived to see
that its like I know better;
ie Jean Marais is how we're
supposed to look on the inside
& those hoopleheads at the Cafe
rioting over Johnny Ray
as Mrs. Mills tinkles at 78
& the Hugo Boss bike cops drop their mitts--
what Martian could have predicted an Elvis
emerging from their thin Hugenot gruel?
Why do the youngsters blame me?
Don't their radios get the CBC?
-- from "The Age of Briggs & Stratton"
[Coming soon: Marie Annharte Baker, March 7th; Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, March 15th]
-Roger
Friday, February 9, 2007
Roger Farr & Reg Johanson at the Railway Club
LINEbooks authors and Capilano College creative writing faculty Roger Farr & Reg Johanson read from their new books SURPLUS and COURAGE, MY LOVE, as part of the Short Line Reading Series.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
6:00 pm
@ the Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street (2nd floor)
Info: www.memewaronline.com/shortline.html
Friday, January 12, 2007
OPEN TEXT READINGS: SPRING 2007
We're pleased to announce that Marie Annharte Baker, Marie Clements, Peter Culley, Maxine Gadd, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Anne Stone will be visiting the campus this Spring -- dates and locations TBA.
About these important West Coast writers:
Marie Baker is the author of several books, including Being on the Moon (Polestar, 1990), Coyote Columbus Cafe (Moonprint, 1994), Blueberry Canoe (New Star, 2001), and Exercises in Lip Pointing (New Star, 2003). She also directed a spot in 'five feminist minutes' (National Film Board), in which she examined racial and sexual abuse of Aboriginal women. Baker is the co-founder of the Regina Aboriginal Writers Group.
Marie Clements’ play about Aboriginal miners, Burning Vision (Talon, 2003), received the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was nominated for six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. She is also the author of The Girl Who Swam Forever (Miami University Press, 2000), The Suitcase Chronicles (Journey Publication, 2002), and The Unnatural and Accidental Women (Talon, 2005). Clements is the founder of urban ink productions, a Vancouver-based Aboriginal and multi-cultural production company that creates and produces Aboriginal works of theatre, music, film and video.
Peter Culley, poet and art critic, has published Twenty-one (Oolican 1980), Fruit Dots (Tsunami 1985), Natural History (Fissure 1986) The Climax Forest (Leech, 1995) and Hammertown (New Star, 2003). The untitled second installment of Hammertown is due from New Star in the fall of '08. His writing on artists such as Stan Douglas, Roy Arden, Kelly Wood and Geoffrey Farmer has appeared in numerous catalogues and journals. Culley resides in South Wellington, near Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, BC.
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).
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is the author of Oral Tragedy (Tsunami, 1988), Redactive (Talon, 1993), Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000) and the forthcoming collection Decorum. Lusk is a longtime member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective.
Anne Stone is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she's guest editing an upcoming special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her novels include, jacks (DC Books 1998), Hush (Insomniac Press 1999) and Delible (forthcoming: Insomniac, 2007), which tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. Anne Stone has taught creative writing/literature at Capilano College in North Vancouver and at Concordia University in Montreal.
- Roger
About these important West Coast writers:
Marie Baker is the author of several books, including Being on the Moon (Polestar, 1990), Coyote Columbus Cafe (Moonprint, 1994), Blueberry Canoe (New Star, 2001), and Exercises in Lip Pointing (New Star, 2003). She also directed a spot in 'five feminist minutes' (National Film Board), in which she examined racial and sexual abuse of Aboriginal women. Baker is the co-founder of the Regina Aboriginal Writers Group.
Marie Clements’ play about Aboriginal miners, Burning Vision (Talon, 2003), received the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was nominated for six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. She is also the author of The Girl Who Swam Forever (Miami University Press, 2000), The Suitcase Chronicles (Journey Publication, 2002), and The Unnatural and Accidental Women (Talon, 2005). Clements is the founder of urban ink productions, a Vancouver-based Aboriginal and multi-cultural production company that creates and produces Aboriginal works of theatre, music, film and video.
Peter Culley, poet and art critic, has published Twenty-one (Oolican 1980), Fruit Dots (Tsunami 1985), Natural History (Fissure 1986) The Climax Forest (Leech, 1995) and Hammertown (New Star, 2003). The untitled second installment of Hammertown is due from New Star in the fall of '08. His writing on artists such as Stan Douglas, Roy Arden, Kelly Wood and Geoffrey Farmer has appeared in numerous catalogues and journals. Culley resides in South Wellington, near Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, BC.
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).
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is the author of Oral Tragedy (Tsunami, 1988), Redactive (Talon, 1993), Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000) and the forthcoming collection Decorum. Lusk is a longtime member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective.
Anne Stone is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she's guest editing an upcoming special issue of West Coast Line on representations of murdered and missing women. Her novels include, jacks (DC Books 1998), Hush (Insomniac Press 1999) and Delible (forthcoming: Insomniac, 2007), which tells the story of Melora Sprague, a 15-year-old girl whose sister has gone missing. Anne Stone has taught creative writing/literature at Capilano College in North Vancouver and at Concordia University in Montreal.
- Roger
Sunday, December 31, 2006
New work by Cap Writing Faculty
Lots happening up here these days...
Roger Farr's SURPLUS (Linebooks, 2006), a collection of sonnets and anti-sonnets documenting some of the havoc wreaked by industry, globalization, and neo-liberalism, was released in November. Roger also recently edited the "Six Cities" issue of The Capilano Review. Reviews of the issue can be read here and here.
Crystal Hurdle is busy following up After Ted & Sylvia (Ronsdale, 2003), which explored the stormy relationship between two of the 20th century's celeb poets, with a new series based on Nabokov's Lolita.
Speaking of storms, Linebooks has also just released Reg Johanson's Courage, My Love. The book brings together a number of Johanson's greatest hits written over the last decade.
Andrew Klobucar is keeping tabs on the robots: check out some of his current new media work, and keep an eye open for his upcoming issue of The Capilano Review on Language and Technology.
Ryan Knighton has recently published a memoir, Cockeyed (Penguin, 2006), about blindness and its discontents. Read more about Ryan and his work.
And finally, Anne Stone's third novel Delible (Insomniac, 2007), which deals with murdered and missing women, will be out in April. Anne is also editing an issue of West Coast Line on the same subject.
-Roger
Roger Farr's SURPLUS (Linebooks, 2006), a collection of sonnets and anti-sonnets documenting some of the havoc wreaked by industry, globalization, and neo-liberalism, was released in November. Roger also recently edited the "Six Cities" issue of The Capilano Review. Reviews of the issue can be read here and here.
Crystal Hurdle is busy following up After Ted & Sylvia (Ronsdale, 2003), which explored the stormy relationship between two of the 20th century's celeb poets, with a new series based on Nabokov's Lolita.
Speaking of storms, Linebooks has also just released Reg Johanson's Courage, My Love. The book brings together a number of Johanson's greatest hits written over the last decade.
Andrew Klobucar is keeping tabs on the robots: check out some of his current new media work, and keep an eye open for his upcoming issue of The Capilano Review on Language and Technology.
Ryan Knighton has recently published a memoir, Cockeyed (Penguin, 2006), about blindness and its discontents. Read more about Ryan and his work.
And finally, Anne Stone's third novel Delible (Insomniac, 2007), which deals with murdered and missing women, will be out in April. Anne is also editing an issue of West Coast Line on the same subject.
-Roger
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