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Kootenay School of Writing
PO Box 21541
1424 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC
M6J 1G8
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Christine LeClerc
Shannon Stewart
Farrah Field
Jared White
Nicole Markotic
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
@ 7;00
W2 Flack Block Gallery
157 West Hastings
A disjunct!, W2 and KSW and co-production, curated by Nikki Reimer
please note early start time
Farrah Field’s first book, Rising, has just been released by Four Way Books. Poems have appeared in Chelsea, Harp & Altar, Harpur Palate, Margie, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, Pool, and Typo. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and raised in Nebraska, Colorado,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Sicily, and Belgium. She lives in Brooklyn, New
York.
Jared White was
born in Boston and has lived in Brooklyn for about eight years, near
two big bridges. His poems have appeared in previous issues of Barrow Street, Cannibal, Coconut, Fulcrum, Harp & Altar, Horse Less Review, The Modern Review, Sawbuck, and Word For/Word, among other journals. A chapbook of poems entitled Yellowcake will appear in the upcoming chapbook collection, Narwhal, from Cannibal Books. He maintains an occasional blog, No No Yes No Yes, at jaredswhite.blogspot.com.
Shannon Stewart is the author of Penny Dreadful (Signal Editions.) Her first book, The Canadian Girl,
was finalist for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award and Gerald
Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1999. She was born in
Ottawa and raised in British Columbia. She holds an MFA in Creative
Writing from the University of British Columbia. She has been the
poetry editor of PRISM International, and was included in Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets. She lives in Vancouver.
Nicole Markotić is a fiction writer and poet. Her most recent novel is Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot, released by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2008. Her first novel, Yellow Pages (Red Deer Press), was a prose narrative about Alexander Graham Bell; she has also published two books of poetry, Connect the Dots and Minotaurs and Other Alphabets (Wolsak & Wynn) and a chapbook, more excess,
which won the bP Nichol Poetry Chapbook Award. A former resident of
Calgary, she now teaches creative writing at the University of Windsor.
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, Interim, Memewar, OCHO, Pistola, subTerrain, terry, and the Worksound gallery. Leclerc is the author of Counterfeit, a book of poetry published by CUE (2008). She teaches Creative Writing at Langara College Continuing Studies.
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Posted: Tue, Jun 23, 2009
Gerry Gilbert reads at the New Poetics Colloquium, August 22 1985
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Posted: Tue, Jun 23, 2009
Gerry Gilbert 1936-2009
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Posted: Tue, Jun 02, 2009
David Bromige @ KSW
Bromige reads at the KSW on Friday, October 08, 1993
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Posted: Tue, Jun 02, 2009
David Bromige 1933 - 2009
David Bromige was very important to the roots of the Kootenay School of Writing. Follow the link to his obituary.
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Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009
Ruins in Process
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia and the grunt gallery,
Vancouver, are delighted to announce the launch of "Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the
Sixties," www.vancouverartinthesixties.com an online resource and digital archive incorporating
hundreds of photographs, press clippings, audio recordings, and film clips. Drawn from private
collections, archives, and public sources, "Ruins in Process" brings together the research of
artists, curators, and writers in an exploration of the artistic practices of Vancouver art in the
1960s and early 1970s. Collaborative methods, interdisciplinary activity and an interest in
emerging technologies are revealed in the selections of the contributors to this educational
resource. The website has a fully searchable digital collection, video interviews with artists Ingrid Baxter,
Christos Dikeakos, Carole Itter, and Gary Lee-Nova, as well as a number of essays that
contextualize the work in the archive.
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Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009
Cap Review Writing Contest
The Capilano Review announces its first contest in ten years. We invite entries of prose – fiction or non-fiction (max 2,000 words) – or poetry (max 300 lines). The winning entry will be published in issue 3.10 (Winter 2010) to be published in early January 2010. This issue will include an Olympics feature. We encourage entrants to submit work that engages the subject of the Olympics, sports, the idea of “the body” . . . but we will also consider non-Olympic content.
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Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009
Schroedinger’s Cat
A new blog of poetry, poetics and commentary from Jamie Reid.
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Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009
Writing KOOT
Open Letter is seeking critical, literary-historical, and creative submissions for a special issue dedicated to the Kootenay School of Writing.
Since its founding in 1984, the Kootenay School of Writing has pursued an ambitious program of radical politics and poetical experimentation, making it one of the most significant avant-garde movements in the history of Canadian literature. Even so, critical response to the movement has been slight and, generally speaking, insular. With hope of redressing this situation, Open Letter seeks submissions from a wide range of scholars regarding the history and practice of KSW, its writers, group affiliations, and associated publications. KSW has been described as a centre of avant-garde writing in Canadayet one that that seemingly rejects avant-gardism, along with centrism, aesthetic purity, and the values and assumptions underpinning the neoliberal nation-state. The special issue will address and reflect the various complexities and paradoxes that make KSW such a rich field of enquiry.
Completed papers are due no later than 1 November 2009. Please send copies to either editor Gregory Betts or Robert Stacey.
gbettsATbrockuDOTca robert_staceyATrogersdotcom
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Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2009
The Poetic Front Vol 2, No 1
Second issue of Stephen Collis' journal The Poetic Front is available for download.
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August 02, 2009
Tony Power
Nico Vassilakis
Catriona Strang
Crystal Curry
The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar
afternoon reading and BBQ
A founding member of The Institute for Domestic Research, Catriona Strang lives in Vancouver, where she and her two kids are active in the local homelearning community. Her latest book is Light Sweet Crude, co-authored with the late Nancy Shaw; she is currently working on a collaboration with Christine Stewart and composer Jacqueline Leggatt.
Tony Power writes fiction. He is working on a pair of linked novels set in Vancouver and environs ca. 1966-1970. Chapter 4 of the first book, Sea To Sky, appeared recently in Memewar #8; Chapter 1 of the second is forthcoming in Golden Handcuffs Review (Seattle). He also looks after Simon Fraser University Library's Contemporary Literature Collection and reading series, and sells modern literary first editions via the Web - see www.tonypow.com for bookstore and work-in-progress.
Crystal Curry writes poems in Seattle, WA, where she also manages a deli and grades papers online. Her poems can be found lots of places, most recently No-Tell Motel, The Hat and The Stranger Online. Her chapbook, Logotherapy Pant, was released last year by Costa Nostra Editions. She is ebullient, boiling.
Also from Seattle, Nico Vassilakis works in textual, visual and video poetry. His books include Text Loses Time (2007), Disparate Magnets (2009), and protracted type (2009).
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