Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Capilano College Creative Writing Program
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College concludes on Monday November 26th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet and critic Rita Wong.
Monday, November 26th
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
RITA WONG’s book of poems, monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998), received the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writer Award. Currently she is Assistant Professor in Critical & Cultural studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Her second book, entitled Forage, is forthcoming with Nightwood Editions in 2007.
achtung!
with crumpled deutschmarks in my pockets…
choke on gucci and starbucks as you tread towards checkpoint charlie
the fiscal year of the living dead
caveat emptor in the trauma room
lederhosen, lederhosen, let down your girth
the streets are alive with the sound of money, podcast
or ac/dc: back in black down memory lane in melbourne, berlin, calgary
skins & masks, still
don’t want to be someone's escape fantasy nor their fear of invasion
nor their model majority
pudendum, addendum, memorandum: what’s your agenda, pussycat?
-- from “forage” (Nightwood, 2007)
For more info, contact:
Roger Farr, Capilano College
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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)
& 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)
Monday, November 12, 2007
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.
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& 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.
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)
Friday, October 19, 2007
Creative Writing at Capilano: Spring 2008
Spring 2008 Creative Writing Courses will be registering soon -- here is some course information:
English 191-01 Creative Writing II - Crystal Hurdle
When is a poem really a story? When should you leave a draft alone? Through in-class writing, weekly homework assignments, and personal projects, you will write up a storm in a number of genres. You’ll be introduced to professional writers, from Lorna Crozier to bp Nichol, from Thomas King to Gabriel Garcia Márquez, all in aid of developing your own style.
Required Texts:
- Gary Geddes, ed. 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics
- Gary Geddes, ed. The Art of Short Fiction
- The Capilano College issue of TCR (Winter/Spring 2007)
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English 191-02 Creative Writing II - Ryan Knighton
In English 191 we will continue to develop our skills by asking how writing can be made, not what it might mean. Specifically, we will further engage with questions of poetry, microfiction, and so-called creative non-fiction, as directed by their form and history. Our workshops, however, are neither roundtable editing sessions, nor, worse, copyediting boot camps. Rather, we will share draft examples of our own work in order to further our discussions, to expose new questions, and to seek the effects of craft. Some case examples from published works may be provided in class, but our own writing will serve as the primary texts. So will Stephen King’s memoir, On Writing, which is pretty damned fine. By the final class, students should have at least one reworked submission of writing ready for a magazine or periodical. To that end we will survey some of the nuts-and-bolts of pitching and publishing, too.
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English 191-03 Creative Writing II - Reg Johanson
This course will focus on poetry and fiction. Our interests in fiction will be on the sub-genre of “biofiction.” Our interests in poetry will be very broad, including the sonnet, the “social,” documentary forms, aleatorics, and work inspired by “language” poetics. We will also be attending the OpenText reading series sponsored by the College and the Canada Council. We will read as much as we write, finding out what we can about the work and methods of the writers we read.
Required Texts:
- Wah, Fred. Diamond Grill.
- Farr, Roger. Surplus.
- The Capilano College issue of TCR (Winter/Spring 2007)
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English 290-01 - Creative Writing (Poetry) – Roger Farr
Poetry and Poetics of the Small Press: The small press revolutionized poetry in the second half of the twentieth century by shifting attention away from an earlier obsession with “the well-wrought urn, or “the perfect poem,” and focusing instead on the poem as the interface between a writer’s process, the process of print production, and a literary community. In this spirit, ENGL 290 will give students practice in both the writing of poetry and in small press production, in both print and digital forms. Thus, in addition to our class discussions and practice with poetic forms and techniques, we will consider the material and visual aspects of poetry: the page, the book, fonts, layout, paper, the fold, etc., and how these aspects contribute to our sense of what a poem is, or can be. We will attend readings by poets visiting the campus as part of the Open Text Series and discuss their work with them; and, to familiarize ourselves with the printing process, we will tour a print-shop which uses the latest “print on demand” technology to produce small runs of high-quality books. Finally, if we can muster sufficient resources, we might experiment with this technology by publishing a collection of our own poems in book form.
Required Texts:
- Farr, Roger ed. The Open Text Reader: Fall 2007.
- Other small-press texts will be available from the instructor in-class.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: LISSA WOLSAK
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 October 18th, 2007 with a reading by Lissa Wolsak.
October 18th
Library 195 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LISSA WOLSAK lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where she works as an energy/thought-field therapist and as a goldsmith. A poet and essayist, she has has authored several long poem sequences including: Pen Chants or nth or 12 spirit-like impermanences (Roof, 2000), An Heuristic Prolusion (Documents in Poetics, 2000), The Garcia Family Co-Mercy (Tsunami, 1994), A Defence of Being, and THRALL. Squeezed Light: Collected Works 1995 - 2007 is forthcoming from Station Hill Press.
from its desto, adualurescence
from its hair-space, azimuth
confessional yields
victims winched to a tortoise
spreadeaglism.. posture-sur-
faces escape into the cloth,
dress-groups inter-marry....
so throve close-woven
Come, vapour-bath, come.
-- from Pen Chants
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on October 18th, 2007 with a reading by Lissa Wolsak.
October 18th
Library 195 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LISSA WOLSAK lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where she works as an energy/thought-field therapist and as a goldsmith. A poet and essayist, she has has authored several long poem sequences including: Pen Chants or nth or 12 spirit-like impermanences (Roof, 2000), An Heuristic Prolusion (Documents in Poetics, 2000), The Garcia Family Co-Mercy (Tsunami, 1994), A Defence of Being, and THRALL. Squeezed Light: Collected Works 1995 - 2007 is forthcoming from Station Hill Press.
from its desto, adualurescence
from its hair-space, azimuth
confessional yields
victims winched to a tortoise
spreadeaglism.. posture-sur-
faces escape into the cloth,
dress-groups inter-marry....
so throve close-woven
Come, vapour-bath, come.
-- from Pen Chants
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
Thursday, September 13, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: GEORGE BOWERING
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College kicks-off on September 20th, 2007 with a reading by former Poet Laureate of Canada, George Bowering.
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
GEORGE BOWERING is one of Canada’s most celebrated writers. His many works have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Romanian. In 2002 Canada named him its first Poet Laureate. More recently, the Vancouver Sun recognized him as one of the most influential people in British Columbia. His most recent book is US Sonnets (Pooka Press, 2007).
1.
“When I have fears that I
may cease to be
open to pain that shines
wet on the side of a gold
fish in my own, I thought,
pond
I ought to forget
comfort, forget family
history, drive a black sedan
over thin prairie roads
looking for a town even
my mother does not believe
was ever there
knowing
pain is not colour, not value
but condition, the cost
of starting a damned life
in the first place, where no
thinking man ever was.”
-- from “Do Sink”
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College kicks-off on September 20th, 2007 with a reading by former Poet Laureate of Canada, George Bowering.
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
GEORGE BOWERING is one of Canada’s most celebrated writers. His many works have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Romanian. In 2002 Canada named him its first Poet Laureate. More recently, the Vancouver Sun recognized him as one of the most influential people in British Columbia. His most recent book is US Sonnets (Pooka Press, 2007).
1.
“When I have fears that I
may cease to be
open to pain that shines
wet on the side of a gold
fish in my own, I thought,
pond
I ought to forget
comfort, forget family
history, drive a black sedan
over thin prairie roads
looking for a town even
my mother does not believe
was ever there
knowing
pain is not colour, not value
but condition, the cost
of starting a damned life
in the first place, where no
thinking man ever was.”
-- from “Do Sink”
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
Monday, September 3, 2007
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)
~
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>
~
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Capilano Review Celebrates its 100th Issue
Celebrate TCR's 100th issue and 30th series with readings by past and present Capilano College writers Daphne Marlatt, Lisa Robertson, Clint Burnham, Sharon Thesen, Ryan Knighton, George Stanley, Crystal Hurdle, Roger Farr, Reg Johanson, Meredith Quartermain, and others.
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Thurs Sept 13 at 7:30pm
tickets at the door $8, students $5
604.984.1712
contact@thecapilanoreview.ca
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Thurs Sept 13 at 7:30pm
tickets at the door $8, students $5
604.984.1712
contact@thecapilanoreview.ca
Monday, July 30, 2007
New Creative Writing Class for Fall 2007: ENGL 291 (Advanced Fiction)
We're pleased to announce that a new section of ENGL 291: FICTION has just been opened for the Fall 2007 term at Capilano. The class will taught by Roger Farr on Thursday afternoons from 1:30 - 5:30, and will focus on contemporary forms of narrative, and on editing and preparing prose manuscripts for publication. Pre-requisites are ENGL 190 & 191, or premission of the instructor.
For more information email the Instructor
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Launch of Peter Dubé's "At the Bottom of the Sky"
DC Books and the Canada Council present the launch of
At the Bottom of the Sky
Peter Dubé's new fiction collection
Peter Dubé's new fiction collection
SPARTACUS books
Sunday, May 27th, 5 p.m.
Reading & signing
Reading & signing
319 West Hastings (2nd floor).
Peter Dubé is the author of the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002), the short fiction collection At the Bottom of the Sky (DC Books, 2007) and the Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001) In addition, his essays and critical writings have been widely published in journals such as CV Photo and Esse, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Occurrence and The Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. He is the President of the Quebec Writers' Federation and a member of the editorial board of the art magazine Espace Sculpture. Peter lives and works in Montreal.
From, At the Bottom of the Sky:
"A riot. That's what the media call it, anyway. A tumult of bodies: some uniformed and bearing truncheons, others in shorts made from second-hand fatigues, a handful with balaclavas pulled over their faces - all of them pushing and pulling, slamming into each other. In some places blood streaks across flesh. Dust clouds climb above the scene and overhead helicopters lend someone a view through them. To my left, a few women dressed in billowing print skirts remain seated, arms linked as a cop leans in, fury in his eyes and one arm outstretched towards them. I can hear the terrifying skirl of the sirens.
Zack's hand is shaking, and all he's doing is handing me the photograph. He remembers the afternoon as clearly as I do, I guess. His eyes are moist."
Peter Dubé is the author of the novel Hovering World (DC Books 2002), the short fiction collection At the Bottom of the Sky (DC Books, 2007) and the Vortex Faction Manifesto (Vortex Editions, 2001) In addition, his essays and critical writings have been widely published in journals such as CV Photo and Esse, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Occurrence and The Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. He is the President of the Quebec Writers' Federation and a member of the editorial board of the art magazine Espace Sculpture. Peter lives and works in Montreal.
From, At the Bottom of the Sky:
"A riot. That's what the media call it, anyway. A tumult of bodies: some uniformed and bearing truncheons, others in shorts made from second-hand fatigues, a handful with balaclavas pulled over their faces - all of them pushing and pulling, slamming into each other. In some places blood streaks across flesh. Dust clouds climb above the scene and overhead helicopters lend someone a view through them. To my left, a few women dressed in billowing print skirts remain seated, arms linked as a cop leans in, fury in his eyes and one arm outstretched towards them. I can hear the terrifying skirl of the sirens.
Zack's hand is shaking, and all he's doing is handing me the photograph. He remembers the afternoon as clearly as I do, I guess. His eyes are moist."
for more information:
http://www.peterdube.com/
--
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Delible: A New Novel by Anne Stone
Insomniac Press and the Kootenay School of Writing are pleased to invite you to the launch of
Delible
a new novel by Anne Stone
SPARTACUS books
Friday, May 18th, 8 p.m.
319 West Hastings (2nd floor).
Advance praise for Delible:
"Delible is a burning photograph of a girl who disappeared. Anne Stone takes us inside disappearance, its shock and suspense, into a family denuded by loss -- a dark and brilliant work in which understanding is inseparable from grief."
"A seductive meditation on the ways young women mythologize, cling to, enrapture, and lose one another. This book is equal parts beauty and perversity, darkness and light. An affecting portrait of girls in the eighties drawn with great acuity."
Event information: www.annestone.net/events.html
Publicist: Chris DiRaddo at (514) 842-5087 or
--
www.annestone.net
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Delible
a new novel by Anne Stone
SPARTACUS books
Friday, May 18th, 8 p.m.
319 West Hastings (2nd floor).
Advance praise for Delible:
"Delible is a burning photograph of a girl who disappeared. Anne Stone takes us inside disappearance, its shock and suspense, into a family denuded by loss -- a dark and brilliant work in which understanding is inseparable from grief."
- Camille Roy, author of Craquer, Cheap Speech, and Swarm
"A seductive meditation on the ways young women mythologize, cling to, enrapture, and lose one another. This book is equal parts beauty and perversity, darkness and light. An affecting portrait of girls in the eighties drawn with great acuity."
- Heather O'Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals
Event information: www.annestone.net/events.html
Publicist: Chris DiRaddo at (514) 842-5087 or
--
www.annestone.net
~
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #6: Jon Paul Fiorentino
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #6: Jon Paul Fiorentino
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on May 17th, 2007 with a reading by Montreal poet Jon Paul Fiorentino
> Cedar 140 @ 12:30
> Capilano College
> 2055 Purcell Way
> 2055 Purcell Way
> North Vancouver
JON PAUL FIORENTINO is a writer and editor. His most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie - a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Editor-in-Chief of Matrix magazine.
WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN, COURTNEY?
She slides out of a launderette.
No, wait. She struts out of a café.
Check that. She stumbles out of a bus.
Or not. She steps out of a bank.
Too dull. She stirs out of a dream.
That sucks. She slips out of a clinic.
The washer is old; the smoke is thick.
The transit is slow; the credit is wrecked.
The fear is real; the doctor is sick
Her clothes are stained; her coffee is cold.
Her transfer is gone; her money is low.
Her mind is made up; her pills do not work.
For info:
Anne Stone
astone@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
'Zine Scene
As part of the Wonder of Words Festival, members of Cap College's Liar collective are hosting a workshop for kids on how to make a 'zine:
Thursday April 26th
5:45-6:30
Room 163
Hastings Elementary School
2625 Franklin Street
Vancouver, BC
Thursday April 26th
5:45-6:30
Room 163
Hastings Elementary School
2625 Franklin Street
Vancouver, BC
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
New Entrance Awards!
The Capilano College English Department is offering several entrance scholarships for high school students interested in taking a two-year Associate of Arts Degree in English at Capilano College. Two English Department Scholarships ($500 each) and one Creative Writing Scholarship ($1,000) will be awarded.
Application Deadline: postmarked no later than May 15, 2007. Application forms are available here.
Return to:
English Department Scholarship
Humanities Department, FR 203
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5
Friday, March 30, 2007
The Liar Spring 2007 Launch
The Liar Spring 2007 Launch
Tuesday April 3 @ 9 p.m.
Cafe Deux Soleils
2096 Commercial Drive
Recommended Donation: $2
featuring readings by the Liar collective,
& musical performances by Junior Major and Lasergiant.
Friday, March 23, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #5: MAXINE GADD
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #5: MAXINE GADD
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on March 29th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet Maxine Gadd.
> Cedar 148 @ 12:30
> Capilano College
> 2055 Purcell Way
> North Vancouver
> Capilano College
> 2055 Purcell Way
> North Vancouver
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), which is a poetry finalist in the 2007 BC Book Prizes.
"coming up powell street into the rising sun
me feeling soft and gentle as an old lady who has done no wrong
who gave birth to children like butter
and kept them alive in apple trees
who took them all swimming in the one big sea
and now has been set free
to enter her City"
me feeling soft and gentle as an old lady who has done no wrong
who gave birth to children like butter
and kept them alive in apple trees
who took them all swimming in the one big sea
and now has been set free
to enter her City"
-- from "Greenstone Cove," Backup to Babylon
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Saturday, March 17, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #4: ANNE STONE
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #4: ANNE STONE
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver author Anne Stone.
Anne Stone is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she is currently guest editing a 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. Stone teaches creative writing & literature at Capilano College in North Vancouver, and at Concordia University in Montreal.
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
[Coming soon: Maxine Gadd, March 29th]
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver author Anne Stone.
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Anne Stone is an editor of Matrix Magazine. Together with Amber Dean, she is currently guest editing a 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. Stone teaches creative writing & literature at Capilano College in North Vancouver, and at Concordia University in Montreal.
"Everything has a beginning. My sister's disappearance has to have one. There has to be a time, a moment, in which she began to disappear.
I've looked for some sign that Mel was poised to leave. Maybe it was there in the world she saw around us, the one that was slowly dying as we pretended not to see. Or in her dreams of the a-bomb, quietly imploding in our mouths as we slept, shattering millions on millions of teeth. A city's worth of polished bone, demolished in an instant. And what could any of us do but stir in our sleep, lick at broken mouths, and feel ourselves already dead, this as the fire consumed the part of us that could dream of bombs to begin with."
I've looked for some sign that Mel was poised to leave. Maybe it was there in the world she saw around us, the one that was slowly dying as we pretended not to see. Or in her dreams of the a-bomb, quietly imploding in our mouths as we slept, shattering millions on millions of teeth. A city's worth of polished bone, demolished in an instant. And what could any of us do but stir in our sleep, lick at broken mouths, and feel ourselves already dead, this as the fire consumed the part of us that could dream of bombs to begin with."
-- from Delible
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
[Coming soon: Maxine Gadd, March 29th]
Sunday, March 11, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #3: DOROTHY TRUJILLO LUSK
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #3: DOROTHY TRUJILLO LUSK
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on March 15h, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet Dorothy Trujillo Lusk.
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
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.
“Tooling,
around in a Chevy II, cheaper parts. Half a sack and half a tank.
This’s the accurate medical term for doughnuts.
The chassis of the mother embodying
the central contradictions
between means and relations of
production &/or sag of surplus value.”
-- from Ogress Oblige
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
[Coming soon: Anne Stone, Maxine Gadd]
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on March 15h, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet Dorothy Trujillo Lusk.
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
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.
“Tooling,
around in a Chevy II, cheaper parts. Half a sack and half a tank.
This’s the accurate medical term for doughnuts.
The chassis of the mother embodying
the central contradictions
between means and relations of
production &/or sag of surplus value.”
-- from Ogress Oblige
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
[Coming soon: Anne Stone, Maxine Gadd]
Friday, March 2, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #2: MARIE ANNHARTE BAKER
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES #2: MARIE ANNHARTE BAKER
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Weds. March 7th, 2007 with a reading by Anishinabe poet, educator, and activist, Marie Annharte Baker.
Co-founder of the Regina Aboriginal Writers Group, Marie Annharte 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 divides her time between Vancouver and Manitoba.
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
[Coming soon: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Anne Stone, Maxine Gadd]
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Weds. March 7th, 2007 with a reading by Anishinabe poet, educator, and activist, Marie Annharte Baker.
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Co-founder of the Regina Aboriginal Writers Group, Marie Annharte 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 divides her time between Vancouver and Manitoba.
yuppie begging bowl
passerby please note us
stuck on camera lens close up
pray our your shell out fills
latte foam bowl slow mo
cash flow scene slow pan
cut broke balance fixated
roll plastic survivance level
bank machine movie stake out
treaty bowl number one
fun filled topped up intrigue
warranty less years but ears
clear new diction air words
cotton swab stuck syndrome
block drumming manifesto
step up to bowl number two
white shiny to let us bowl
real tight ass titan squirm
condo minimum convenience
bowling down alley strikes
we're good check the gate
missing heirs women split
stuck on camera lens close up
pray our your shell out fills
latte foam bowl slow mo
cash flow scene slow pan
cut broke balance fixated
roll plastic survivance level
bank machine movie stake out
treaty bowl number one
fun filled topped up intrigue
warranty less years but ears
clear new diction air words
cotton swab stuck syndrome
block drumming manifesto
step up to bowl number two
white shiny to let us bowl
real tight ass titan squirm
condo minimum convenience
bowling down alley strikes
we're good check the gate
missing heirs women split
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
http://capilanocreativewriting
[Coming soon: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Anne Stone, Maxine Gadd]
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
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