Monday, February 25, 2008

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)