St@nza – October 2014 Volume 11, Number 9

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News from the League Page 1 Opportunities Page 2 New Members Page 9 Poetry and Literary New Page 1 Events & Readings Page 5 Members News Page 10

NEWS FROM THE LEAGUE

Deadline November 1! Submit Your Titles for the League Book Awards The deadline for submission to these awards is November 1st, 2014. For books that are published after this date, but still within the calendar year, please e‐mail me by November 1st, 2014 to arrange to have the deadline extended to Dec 15th. Please note: Titles will not be accepted past the deadline unless these arrangements have been made prior to November 1, 2014. If you are a League member, please contact your publisher to see if your title has been submitted before sending it in yourself to avoid duplication. For more information on these awards, and to download a submission form, please go to: http://poets.ca/contests‐awards/

The Al Purdy A‐frame Association Naming Opportunity The Al Purdy A‐frame Association has a naming opportunity and is hoping League members will help out. The A‐frame needs new decks. If League members collectively donate $1500 then one deck at the A‐ frame will have a plaque that will read “The League of Canadian Poets' Deck.” If 150 members donate $10 each, we make the target. Susan McMaster has already kicked off the campaign by donating $50 (donations of $50 or more receive a tax receipt). Follow this link, hit the “donate” button and make a note that you are a League member. http://www.harbourpublishing.com/PurdyAFrame/?page_id=7. As Susan notes, "The Al Purdy project would very much like participation by League members especially, as a gesture of support for one of our most noted ‐‐ and noticeable! ‐‐ poets. Check out the blog excerpt for the complete list put together by Leslie Kenney for Descant (Jan. 24/2014), along with full tongue‐in‐ cheek descriptions and pix. Group donations and plaques are very welcome!"

News from the Feminist Caucus By Anne Burke. This month, news from Magie Dominic, Susan McCaslin (and Inanna Press), and Sharon Singer. Also "Take Back the Night", with a preview of Cathy Ford's Flowers We Will Never Know The Names Of about the Montreal Massacre 25 years ago; reviews of Red Letter Day, by Bernice Lever, In the Bone Cracks of the Walls, by Tina Biello, Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths, by Susan Paddon; Painted Fires, by Nellie L. McClung and The Foreigner: A Tale of Saskatchewan, by Ralph Connor. For full report: http://poets.ca/programs‐2/feminist‐caucus/

Cash Prizes Increased This Year! Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth There are two age categories, junior (grades 7‐9) and senior (grades 10‐12). First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize of $400, second place winners will receive $350 and third place winners will receive $300. All winning poems will be published in the League of Canadian Poets’ e‐zine, Re:verse at www.youngpoets.ca. All winners will receive Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth certificates and student memberships in the League of Canadian Poets for one year. For guidelines: http://poets.ca/wordpress/contests‐awards. Deadline: January 15.

The Great Canadian PoeTrain Tour Update We have finally got from Via Rail a receptive contact in who is helping facilitate planning and implementation of Canada’s first cross Canada PoeTrain tour for April of 2015 during National Poetry Month. A dynamic, entrepreneurial spirited team of keen doers is providing stewardship of the project 1 in Toronto. We will be opening registration this month once we receive a discount code from Via of 10% for the train trip portion. Further details on hotels, billeting, and the full itinerary will be available as well. There will be a limited number of seats available so it is critical to follow the registration instructions when they are announced. Anyone not yet pre‐registered and curious about making literary history can email dave at [email protected] subject heading poetrain projects and you’ll be added to our contact list.

OPPORTUNITIES Please note: The opportunities, contests or markets listed in this electronic newsletter are only an informational resource. We encourage all poets to thoroughly investigate all contests or markets before submitting their work.

Open Call for Submissions: Diaspora Dialogues Mentoring Program, 2015 Diaspora Dialogues is excited to announce the 2015 mentoring program, focusing on the creation of long‐form manuscripts and offering emerging writers greater in‐depth opportunity to hone their craft, and prepare a book‐length project for publication.

Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions from emerging writers who currently have a full or near‐full draft of an original full‐length novel or collection of short stories. Complete or near‐complete means that the writer has up t o 85,000 words or 300 double‐spaced pages of prose; or up to 25 poems (no more than 50 pages maximum). Submissions will consist only of excerpts from these works (see Guidelines).

Through an adjudicated process, the most promising emerging writers will be chosen for the opportunity to work over a six‐month period with a mentor via correspondence (either email or post) between January and July 2015.

Diaspora Dialogues is committed to supporting a literature of Toronto that is as diverse as the city itself. Writers are encouraged to keep this mandate in mind, but addressing this theme directly is not essential in the submission.

Deadline: Friday, October 31, 2014. To download the application form, FAQs, and read about the experiences of past mentees, please visit the Diaspora Dialogues website: http://diasporadialogues.com/

Call for Submission: Subterranean Blues Poetry Subterranean Blue Poetry Announces a Submission Call of New Age Poetry and Books of Poetry for Review. Particularly l@@king for New Age Art for the Masthead. We thrive on new original word synergies. All Poets and their poetry are welcome and we are especially looking for homegrown Poets from the Canadian/American Indian Community, , small town Canada, international Poets and anyone who was ever considered "the other”. Email Submissions. No entry fees. Free ad. Email: [email protected]. Subterranean Blue Poetry @ www.subterraneanbluepoetry.com. "for those subterranean blues".

Now Accepting Applications for Residencies for 2016: Al Purdy A‐frame Thanks to generous sponsorship, it has been an exciting McClelland & Stewart* Summer at the Purdy A‐ frame. The Purdy Picnic was a smashing success as was Katherine Leyton's How Pedestrian project. Katherine's residency ended August 31 and the new writers‐in‐residence are Nick Thran and Sue Sinclair. Information about events will be posted soon. Over the winter we hope to finish the necessary work on Al's writing shed so if you are considering a donation it would be timely. The Al Purdy A‐frame Association is now accepting applications for residencies for 2016. Information and applications procedures are posted on our website www.alpurdy.ca.

Call For Submissions: The Inflectionist Review

2 The Inflectionist Review, http://www.inflectionism.com, considers poetry submissions on an ongoing basis. We are reading for issue 3 right now. TIR has a strong preference for non‐linear work that carefully constructs ambiguity so that the reader can play an active role in the poem. In general, we commend the experimental, the worldly and universal, and eschew the inane, trendy, and overly personal. Work that reveals multiple layers with further readings. Work that speaks to people across borders, across literary and cultural boundaries, across time periods, is more likely to fascinate us (and the reader). Submissions are accepted online via Submittable at: https://theinflectionistreview.submittable.com/submit.

Poetry Contest: Split This Rock $1,000 Awarded for Poems of Provocation & Witness. Submission Deadline: November 1, 2014. Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival, April 14‐17, 2016—Washington, DC. Reading Fee: $20 / Deadline: November 1, 2014 / Simultaneous Submissions Okay. Submissions should be in the spirit of Split This Rock: socially engaged poems, poems that reach beyond the self to connect with the larger community or world; poems of provocation and witness. This theme can be interpreted broadly and may include but is not limited to work addressing politics, economics, government, war, leadership; issues of identity (gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, body image, immigration, heritage, etc.); community, civic engagement, education, activism; and poems about history, Americana, cultural icons.

First place recipient receives $500 and the opportunity to read her/his poem at the 2016 Split This Rock festival; second and third place receive $250 each. All three winners receive free 2016 festival registration and their poems published at www.splitthisrock.org. Up to three honorable mentions will receive signed copies of Nude Descending an Empire, Sam Taylor’s newest book.

Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, no more than 6 pages total, in any style, in the spirit of Split This Rock (see “About The Contest”) online at http://splitthisrock.submittable.com/submit. Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please notify us immediately if the poem is accepted elsewhere. For questions and more info: [email protected] or www.splittherock.org.

2015 Griffin Poetry Prize Deadline Reminder This is a reminder that the deadline for the $200,000 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize is December 31, 2014. Books must be submitted postmarked no later than December 31, 2014 for books published between January 1st and December 31st, 2014. Please remember to complete all necessary customs/duties paperwork when shipping your entries. If you have any questions regarding the rules, or would like to download an entry form, please visit our Web site, at: www.griffinpoetryprize.com.

Open Season Awards ($3000 in three categories: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) Postmark/Email deadline: November 1, 2014. A spring showcase of the best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The winner of each category will receive $1000, publication, and will be interviewed. Length of submissions: poetry 100 lines max (up to three poems per entry), fiction/creative nonfiction 2500 words max (one story per entry). Entry fee: $35 Canadian, $40 U.S., $45 international (includes 1‐year subscription). Additional entries cost $15 from anywhere. Entries may be sent by email or regular mail. Visit malahatreview.ca/contests/open_season/info.html for more details, including submission and payment options, and a look at previous winners. This year's judges are Jan Conn (poetry), Cynthia Flood (fiction), and David Carpenter (creative nonfiction).

New Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize The Writers’ Trust of Canada is thrilled to announce the creation of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, an annual award in recognition of a Canadian writer’s exceptional body of work. The prize, which is sponsored by the Latner Family Foundation and administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, will be presented alongside five other prizes for excellence in Canadian literature at the annual Writers’ Trust Awards in November. The winner will receive $25,000. 3

The Writers’ Trust has assembled a three‐member jury consisting of Stephanie Bolster, an award‐ winning poet and coordinator of the creative writing program at Concordia University in Montreal; Lorna Crozier, an award‐winning author of 16 books of poetry who is based in North Saanich, BC; and Fred Wah, formerly Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate and current Professor Emeritus at the University of .

“We know that the financial rewards to poets can rarely match the joys their work brings to so many readers, and that work's importance to our national literary culture,” said Steven Latner. “Through this partnership with the Writers’ Trust, the Latner Family Foundation is honoured to invest in the future health of one of Canada’s most vital art forms.”

“The Writers’ Trust now has a portfolio of ten prizes to reward Canada’s exceptional writers at all stages of their careers,” said Mary Osborne, executive director of the Writers’ Trust of Canada. “We are delighted that today, with the support of the Latner Family Foundation, we are able to round out our awards program with a prize to recognize Canada’s finest poets for their contributions to our country’s literary culture.”

The $25,000 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize will be awarded once a year to a Canadian poet in mid‐ career in recognition of a remarkable body of work and in hope of future contributions to Canadian poetry. For the purposes of this prize, mid‐career is defined as having published at least three collections of poetry that demonstrate outstanding mastery in the art of poetry. No age restrictions apply. Recipients must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. There is no submission process for the prize.

The Writers’ Trust administers three existing body of work awards. They are: the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award, for a body of work that is predominantly fiction, the Writers’ Trust Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, and the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life.

The winners of these, plus the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Writers’ Trust/McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize, the Writers’ Trust Distinguished Contribution Award, and the inaugural Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize will be announced at the Writers’ Trust Awards on November 4, 2014. For more info: www.writerstrust.com/

Royal City Literary Arts Society Announces the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence In Poetry Fred Cogswell (1917‐2004) was a prolific poet, editor, professor, life member of the League of Canadian Poets, and an Officer of the Order of Canada." First prize: $500 CAD; second prize: $250 CAD.

Eligibility Criteria: • Book must be bound as a book, not a chapbook. Book length must be a minimum of 50 pages in length • Selected poetry must be written in English by a single author • Book must be original work by the author (translations will not be considered at this time) • Original date of publication falls between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013 • Book must be published in Canada • Book must be written by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident alive in the submission year • Electronic books are not eligible. • In case of dispute about the book’s eligibility, the Society’s decision will be final.

George Bowering, Canada’s first Parliamentary Poet Laureate, will be the sole judge for the inaugural award. Reading Fee: $25. Payment can be made through PayPal (there is a link below) or by money 4 order (payable to “Royal City Literary Arts Society”). If you pay with PayPal, please include a copy of your receipt with the submission package. *Two copies of the book must be submitted to the Royal City Literary Arts Society, along with the reading fee (or proof thereof), and must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2014. The society’s mailing address is: Royal City Literary Arts Society, Fred Cogswell Award, Box #5, 720 Sixth Street, New Westminster, BC V3L 3C5. *Submitted books will not be returned; they become the property of the Royal City Literary Arts Society.

Winners and finalists will be feted at the RCLAS Awards Night at the Richmond Cultural Centre on November 22, 2014 and will have their names and titles included in the December issue of RCLAS’s Wordplay magazine. Payment Here http://rclas.com/fred‐cogswell‐excellence‐poetry‐award.

Public Readings by English‐language Quebec Writers funded by The Canada Council for the Arts The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) is now accepting applications from eligible organizations to support readings by Quebec‐based English‐language authors. Authors must be QWF members and all readings must take place by March 31, 2015.

The program is open to public presenters throughout Canada, including but not limited to ongoing reading series, libraries, bookstores and literary festivals. See qwf.org/qcwol.html for details on the program, eligibility criteria and application procedure and form.

If you are a QWF member who meets the posted eligibility criteria, please let your national network of potential presenters know about this fund. For additional information, contact: Lori Schubert, Executive Director, Quebec Writers’ Federation, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Room 3, Westmount, QC H3Z 1X4, 514‐ 933‐0878 or [email protected].

Call for Submission: Anthology about Lake Superior For an anthology, Holy Cow! Press is seeking poems about Lake Superior that are environmental, ecological, historical, spiritual, geographical, etc‐‐in particular from Minnesota, Ontario, upper Michigan, Wisconsin. New work, previously published poems are welcome‐‐three poems limit. $10 reading fee requested. Please include a SASE (no electronic submissions) and send to: The Editors, Lake Superior Anthology, Holy Cow! Press, Post Office Box 3170, Duluth, Minnesota 55803. Deadline: October 1st, 2014.

EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, COURSES, FESTIVALS & READINGS

Four Laureates and Friends, Toronto, ON Four Laureates and Friends is an evening of poetry, music, and song presented to benefit the United Way of Toronto. Two previous Poets Laureate of Toronto, Dennis Lee and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, join current Laureate George Elliott Clarke and Owen Sound Laureate Terry Burns to regale the audience with poignant poems, piercing songs, and stirring melodies along with several guest musicians and vocalists. The performers aim to raise social consciousness while raising funds for the United Way of Toronto

On Wednesday October 8, 2014, at 8 p.m. at the University of Toronto’s Robert Gill Theatre, please join the Four Laureates and Friends in proving that Art is social and artists are caring citizens helping to support the neediest and most fragile among us.

Poet Laureates are appointed by a public body such as a City Council to champion literacy, poetry, and the arts.

Four Laureates and Friends is hosted by the University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. Tickets are available through uofttix.ca and at the door: $15 general admission, $5 5 for students. The Robert Gill Theatre is above the U of T Bookstore at the corner of College and St. George. Check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/720096558059822

TWUC Publishing Workshop at INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair The Publishing 2.0 – Tips and Traps workshop has been successfully presented in cities across the country in 2014 and is returning to Toronto on Friday, November 14 at the INSPIRE! Toronto International Book Fair at the Metro Convention Centre.

Whether you are an established, emerging, or aspiring writer, the ever‐changing publishing landscape can be daunting. The Publishing 2.0 – Tips and Traps workshop is packed with information about the traditional path to getting published along with the widening and diversifying self‐publishing path to publication.

Authors Mary W. Walters and Caroline Adderson, and author and executive director of The Writers’ Union of Canada, John Degen will cover topics such as working with agents and editors, keys to successful submissions, crowdsourcing, contract terms, royalty rates, copyright, managing your digital rights, design work, distribution, and promotion. The workshop starts at 9:30 am and ends at 4:00 pm with time at lunch for you to enjoy the Toronto International Book Fair. Register on the INSPIRE! Website at https://www.microspec.com/tix123/eTic.cfm?code=BOOKFAIR14.

National Poetry Day in the UK, October 2, 2014 This year’s National Poetry Day is just around the corner, and the Poetry Society are making it one to 'remember', with a shedload of free events including: poetry readings for children and families; a poetry film and live performances of new commissions to commemorate the First World War; poetry performances for adults; and brand new poetry films featuring spoken word legends – all at NPD Live at Southbank, 1‐6pm – plus a poetic takeover of Covent Garden Tube Station; and the announcement of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award winners.

One of the most moving and powerful of events promises to be The Pity, a performance of new work from four poets commissioned by the Poetry Society to mark the centenary of the First World War. Steve Ely, Zaffar Kunial, Denise Riley and Warsan Shire will premiere their searing new work written in response to the conflict, with visuals by Robert Peake. I've included some details below which you can copy/paste into newsletters, or Facebook or Tweet about.

If you'd like even more information, the Press Release is available on the website and has everything you might need to know about what we've got going on. As you can see there are some very exciting names and events, so we hope you'll be able to tell your networks about some of it! See: http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/ for more info. You can track events on the day and get involved online by following the @PoetrySociety Twitter account or Facebook page, or the official #nationalpoetryday hashtag on Twitter.

The Sh Poetry Readings, Toronto, ON Don Cullen, Brock Hessel, Henrik Kartna, Cathy Petch and Robert Priest, hosted by David Bateman. Paddy’s Playhouse, 161 Gerrard St. E (just east of Jarvis), 2nd Floor, Gala Poetry Reading, Sunday, October 5, 2014. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., show at 7:30 p.m.

Chaudiere Books Launch, Ottawa, ON Chaudiere Books Launch with Roland Prevost, Amanda Earl and Monty Reid. Hosted by rob mclennan. Ottawa’s Chaudiere Books was recently relaunched by rob mclennan and new co‐publisher Christine McNair, and the Writers Festival is proud to be launching their 2014 poetry titles. Ottawa International Writers Festival, Monday October 27, 8pm, free event, Fox and Feather, 2nd Floor • 283 Elgin St.

6 Ottawa.For further information on this event, and further events in this year's Ottawa International Writers Festival, click here: http://www.writersfestival.org/events/fall‐2014/chaudiere‐books‐launchwith‐roland‐prevostamanda‐ earland‐monty‐reid

Saturdays at Portobello, Toronto, ON Greetings to our Portobello community. We have another delightful afternoon in store for you on Saturday, October 4th, from 1:30 ‐ 4:30 p.m. at Portobello Restaurant & Bar, 995 Bay St., Toronto ON M5S 3C4, 416 926‐1800. Featured Musicians ‐ Bill Heffernan and Jon Brooks; Featured Poet ‐ Rocco de Giacomo; Guest Storyteller ‐ James Phelan; Guest Poet ‐ Gianna Patriarca; Guest Poet ‐ Don Cullen; Guest Musicians – Peter Lafferty and Bob Cohen.

The eh List Author Series: Maureen Jennings ‐ No Known Grave – Toronto, ON Wednesday November 5, 7:00 p.m. Auditorium, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., Toronto, ON. The author of the books behind TV's Murdoch Mysteries is back with a new novel featuring Detective Inspector Tom Tyler. Set in Shropshire, England, in the shadow of World War II, Tyler is beset with a double murder which brings the war closer to home than anyone could have expected. Please call 416 395 5639 to register for this FREE program.

The eh List Author Series: Alison Pick ‐ Between Gods – Toronto, ON Wednesday November 26, 7:00 p.m. Auditorium, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., Toronto, ON. Alison Pick's last book, Far to Go, was shortlisted for The Man Booker prize and took several important fiction awards. In this memoir, Between Gods, Pick explores the unspoken hints in her family biography and finds herself wrestling with her newly discovered Jewish identity. Please call 416 395 5639 to register for this FREE program.

The eh List Author Series: Linden MacIntyre – Punishment – Toronto, ON Tuesday December 2, 7:00 p.m. Auditorium, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., Toronto, ON. In Punishment, his first novel since completing his Long Stretch trilogy, Scotiabank Giller‐winner Linden MacIntyre brings us a powerful exploration of justice and vengeance, and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason in a small town shaken by a tragic death. Please call 416 395 5639 to register for this FREE program.

The eh List Author Series: Jack Granatstein ‐ The Greatest Victory – Toronto, ON Wednesday December 3, 7:00 p.m. Auditorium, North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St., Toronto, ON. Jack Granatstein, one of Canada's most prolific and socially active historians, has penned polemics, headed the Canadian War Museum and made deep impacts on the study of history in Canada. In The Greatest Victory, he analyses the Battle of Vimy Ridge in great detail and with considerable force. Please call 416 395 5639 to register for this FREE program.

The Muted Note: Extensive Autumn Tour for Multifaceted Poetry + Music + Dance Project Based on Poems by P.K. Page Montreal composer and trombonist, Scott Thomson, and dance artist and vocalist, Susanna Hood, will perform The Muted Note, a suite of songs and dances based on poems by P.K. Page, 40 times and in 9 Canadian provinces in the autumn of 2014. Scott composed the suite, a hybrid of jazz and artsong, and Susanna subsequently choreographed the songs on three other dancers with live music by Scott's quintet, The Disguises. Susanna's dances, like Scott's songs, are made to be extended through improvisation, and the creative input of their superb collaborators will animate and activate Page's beautiful verse, the core of this provocatively unconventional Poetry + Music + Dance show. (See personnel below.) The stage work will premiere with a run at Toronto's Citadel Theatre, 5‐7 September, and then at Montreal's Monument National, Studio Hydro‐Québec, 2‐5 October, a co‐presentation of Tangente and L'OFF Festival de Jazz. Apart from these shows, throughout the autumn, Susanna and 7 Scott will tour extensively throughout Canada to play The Muted Note as a duo, the unconventional combination of Voice + Dance + Trombone, performing in cafes, art galleries, bars, dance studios, theatres, classrooms, lofts, and even outdoors. Susanna and Scott will be touring to support their duo CD, also called The Muted Note (&records 2013), and their presenters range across the fields of music, dance, and literature, as well as in universities.

The Muted Note Autumn 2014 Itinerary: 5 September – Toronto, Full Stage Production, The Citadel, 8pm; 6 September – Toronto, Full Stage Production, The Citadel, 8pm; 7 September – Toronto, Full Stage Production, The Citadel, 2pm.

The Muted Note: Susanna Hood & Scott Thomson Duo on Tour: 9 September – Fredericton NB, venue TBA; 10 September – Moncton NB, Galerie Sans Nom; 12 September – Halifax NS, 1313 Hollis (presented by SuddenlyListen), 8pm; 13 September – Halifax NS, workshop, 1313 Hollis (presented by Mocean Dance), 1pm; 16 September – Kitchener ON, Yeti Cafe, 8pm; 17 September – Guelph ON, Silence, 8pm; 18 September – Windsor ON, In/fuse Series, Lambton Studio A, University of Windsor, 7:30pm; 19 September – London ON, The Root Cellar (presented by Sweet Magic London), 9pm; 20 September – Kingston ON, The Artel (presented by Tone Deaf), 9pm; 21 September – Quyon QC, Centre Q, 2pm; 21 September – Ottawa ON, Umi Cafe (presented by IMOO), 7pm; 23 September – Peterborough ON, Traill College, Trent University; 24 September – St. Catharines ON, Niagara Artists Centre Gallery, 7:30pm; 25 September – Hamilton ON, Artword Artbar, 8pm; 26 September – Guelph ON, Luscombe Theatre, University of Guelph (presented by IICSI), 7pm; 27 September – Toronto ON, Gerrard Art Space, 8pm; 2 October – Montreal, Full Stage Production, Monument National, 7:30pm; 3 October – Montreal, Full Stage Production, Monument National, 7:30pm; 4 October – Montreal, Full Stage Production, Monument National, 7:30pm; 5 October – Montreal, Full Stage Production, Monument National, 4pm (Presented by Tangente and L'OFF Festival de Jazz); 7 October – St. John's NL, workshop, MUN Dance Studio, workshop, 5pm; 8 October – St. John's NL, LSPU Hall (Festival of New Dance), 8pm; 11 October – St. John's NL, Ship Inn, Festival of New Dance Closing Party; 12 October – Portugal Cove NL, The Boreal Poetry Garden with site‐specific poems by Marlene Creates, 2pm (Rain date: 13 October, 11am); 14 October – Roberts Creek BC, Gumboot Café; 15 October – Vancouver BC, The Western Front*, 8pm; 16 October – Vancouver BC, performance and conference, University of ; 18 October – Victoria BC, Open Space, 7pm; 19 October – Salt Spring Island BC, ArtSpring Art Gallery, 7:30pm; 20 October – Salt Spring Island BC, workshops (hosted by ArtSpring); 20 October – Victoria BC, Artists' Talk, University of Victoria; 21 October – Salt Spring Island BC, workshops (hosted by ArtSpring); 22 October – Nanaimo BC, workshop (hosted by Crimson Coast Dance); 23 October – Nanaimo BC, venue TBA (presented by Crimson Coast Dance); 25 October – Kelowna BC, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, 8pm; 27 October – Calgary AB, Emmedia Gallery (presented by Bug Incision); 28 October – Edmonton AB, venue TBA (presented by Bug Incision); 29 October – Saskatoon SK, Free Flow Dance Centre, 7pm; 30 October – Regina SK, The Artesian (presented by Holophon Audio Arts), 8pm; 31 October – Brandon MB, Artists' Talk, Hawkweed Literary Forum, Brandon University, noon; 31 October – Brandon MB, Works in Progress Cabaret, Park Community Centre, 7pm; 1 November – Brandon MB, workshops TBA (hosted by Brandon University); 2 November – Regina SK, workshop (hosted by New Dance Horizons), 2pm; 15 November – Rimouski QC, Co‐op Paradis (presented by Tour de Bras) **; 16 November – Québec QC, Bar Co‐op L'agitée **. * Followed by an on‐stage discussion with Sandra Djwa, P.K. Page's biographer; Her biography, A Journey with No Maps, won the 2013 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction. ** Double‐bill with Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble.

Major Arts Festival Coming To Nanaimo In 2015 The Cascadia Poetry Festival is coming to Nanaimo. The third in an annual festival series that originated in 2012 in Seattle, CPF3‐2015 is expected to bring more than four‐hundred visitors to eat, sleep and soak up some great poetry in this Vancouver Island city.

8 Cascadia began as the brain‐child of poet and arts activist Paul Nelson, through an organization called SPLAB (the Seattle Poetics Laboratory). It started out small, with about one hundred poets and attendees from both sides of the border. By its second bout in 2014 that number had quadrupled. Canadian poets have participated from the outset, but this will be the first time the CPF has come to Canada.

As the CPF website (www.cascadiapoetryfestival.org) makes clear, this is a festival born with a visionary concept ‐ an international festival that seeks to “bioregionally animate and culturally construct” Cascadia by gathering writers, artists and scientists to “collaborate, discover and foster deeper connection between inhabitants and the place itself.” Cascadia, as defined by writer and scientist David McCloskey, is the bioregion that stretches “in a great curving arc from Northern California to southeast Alaska—a vast swath which also includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and more than half of British Columbia.”

Accessibility is a key value for this festival. A Gold Pass to four days of readings, panels and discussions costs $25 and only $10 for students. The four scheduled workshops aren’t covered by the pass but, at $60, they are a literary bargain. You can buy your tickets on the CPF website. The schedule is already posted on the website too, and bios of the forty‐two participating poets from both sides of the border. And, of course, you can volunteer!

The Cascadia Poetry Festival creates a special ambiance, says CPF3‐2015 Co‐Chair, Vancouver Island poet David Fraser. “It brings together people who want to be part of the important conversation about our rich, trans‐national community."

The informal mingling at CPF is as important as the panels and performances, Fraser says. "We create time and space for people to sit and talk about what Cascadia really means to us."

CPF3‐2015 is forging a relationship between area poets and local businesses, schools, Vancouver Island University and the City of Nanaimo—everyone helping to make the festival a success and to highlight the area's strength as a community of poets and writers. There were four‐hundred attendees at Seattle’s CPF, held in May of this year. CPF3‐2015 organizers are hoping to match or better that.

Taking the lead in festival organizing is a small Nanaimo‐based arts society called “WordStorm” (www.wordstorm.ca) ‐ a dynamic group of writers who run monthly Spoken Word performances in local cafés (currently the Vault Café on Nanaimo’s Wallace Street). CPF3 co‐chair, Fraser, is also WordStorm’s artistic director and president.

“Spreading the word that Nanaimo is not only a gorgeous place, but also a major arts destination is one of the city’s key strategic goals,” Fraser remarks. “It is gratifying that a small, volunteer group of poets is helping to manifest that message.”

Check it all out here: www.cascadiapoetryfestival.org ; find us on Facebook for news and updates: Cascadia Poetry Festival; to sponsor or volunteer, contact David Fraser at [email protected]

NEW MEMBERS

Lilly Barnes Lilly was born in the Ural Mountains of Russia, her mother a concert pianist, her father a mining engineer. Lilly had lived in three countries by the time she arrived in Canada at the age of 17, but didn't speak a word of English. Yet, just a few years later, she was studying philosophy and English literature at the University of Toronto, while already married to Canadian composer/conductor Milton Barnes. Together, they headed for Vienna to complete their studies. 9

Lilly Barnes is participating in a poetry reading event on Sept 26th at the Huntsville Public Library.

Lilly will also be presenting at the Spirituality In Health‐Care Network Event, Integrating Spirituality and Health Care on Thursday Oct 2, 7:00pm to 9:30pm. Suggested Contribution $10.00. Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto, ON (2 blocks north from the Bedford exit of the St George Subway Station). We hope you’ll join us for a very special evening of poetry offered by local artist, Lilly Barnes, with musical support from her sons, Micah and Daniel. Lilly’s book of poetry will be for sale, and she’ll be pleased to sign books before the event, during the break, and after the close.

Watch YouTube Video of Lilly Barnes read her new book "Journey" published by Inanna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YglwbZJmXGU

Amanda Earl Amanda Earl is an Ottawa poet, publisher and pornographer. 2014 witnessed the publication of her trade poetry book, Kiki (Chaudiere Books, Ottawa) and her erotica collection “Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl” (Coming Together, New York City). Also in 2014 Amanda was inducted into the VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour. Her chapbooks and poems have been published in three continents. Amanda is the managing editor of Bywords.ca, Ottawa’s literary hub and the chief troublemaker of AngelHousePress. For more information, please visit AmandaEarl.com or follow Amanda on Twitter @KikiFolle.

Note: Links for Kiki: http://www.chaudierebooks.com/books/kiki.html ; http://kikifolle.com/

Dilys Leman Dilys is a Toronto poet and freelance writer/editor, and works in the field of education research. Originally from Ottawa, she has worked as a teacher and performing arts manager, and was a member of a playwright collective that staged new works for the Ottawa Fringe Festival. Her poetry is mostly historical/documentary — linked original and found poems featuring a cast of real and imagined characters. Dilys’s first full‐length collection, The Winter Count, was released with McGill‐Queen’s University Press in August 2014 (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series). Cactus Press published her chapbook, The Lunacy Commission, in 2012. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Arc, Grain, Prairie Fire and CV2. She is a former winner of Arc’s Diana Brebner Prize (Honorable Mention) and Prairie Fire’s Fiction Prize (First Place).

MEMBERS NEWS

Rebecca Anne Banks Rebecca Anne Banks and Tea at Tympani Lane Records announces the publication of Grandmother’s Garden: my grandmother’s recipes. This is a cookbook of all my grandmothers old time recipes from Nova Scotia passed down from her Protestant Pioneer ancestors. It is also the story of my grandmothers family, told in a poetic prose poem introducing the EBook, setting the stage for my grandparents love affair amidst gardens, flowers, wildberries in the spectacular setting of farmland Nova Scotia overlooking the Bay of Fundy. Available on Amazon.ca. The best poetry @ Tea at Tympani Lane Records. www.tympanilanerecords.com.

Maxianne Berger Maxianne Berger is launching her first collection of tanka on Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 pm, at The Word, 469 Milton, in Montreal (514 845 5640). A dual‐language edition, un renard roux / a red fox is published by Ottawa's Éditions des petits nuages ‐‐ [email protected]

Kate Braid 10 In September 2014, Kate Braid and John Terpstra, both carpenters, both poets and non‐fiction writers, did a western reading tour called "Wood and Words." They read on Hornby and Pender Islands and in Nanaimo, Victoria and Vancouver. For more info: www.katebraid.com.

Terry Ann Carter Terry Ann Carter will be giving a talk on “Chiyo‐ni and Aisatsu: Composing Greeting Haiku” at the Annual Northwest Haiku Conference, at Seabeck ,Washington on the Kitsap Penninsula, Oct. 17th. (Chiyo‐ni was an 18th century Japanese female haiku master). She will also be giving a workshop for the Victoria Writers Festival on “Haiku and Small Book Making” at the Greater Victoria Public Library, 735 Broughton Street, Victoria, on Nov. 8th.

John Donlan John Donlan is the new Writer‐in‐Residence at Saskatoon Public Library for 2014‐2015, following his appointment as the Barbara Moon Editorial Fellow at Massey College last year, teaching Narrative Medicine. His books are Domestic Economy, Baysville, Green Man, Spirit Engine, and Call Me the Breeze.

Lorraine Gane Salt Spring poet Lorraine Gane is launching two new poetry collections this fall: The Way the Light Enters (Black Moss Press) on Sunday, October 12, with readings along one of the most beautiful coastal walks in the Gulf Islands (2‐3 p.m., meet at the barn at Ruckle Park, rain or shine) and The Blue Halo (Leaf Press) on Saturday, October 18 at the Salt Spring Library with Nanaimo poet Mary Ann Moore at 3 p.m. For more information: www.lorrainegane.com.

Among Lorraine Gane’s poetry collections are Even the Slightest Touch Thunders on my Skin (Black Moss, 2002; finalist for the CBC Literary Awards and the Canadian League of Poets chapbook contest), and Beauty and Beyond: Songs of Small Mercies (Leaf Press, 2012). She mentors writers through workshops, online courses, consultations, and manuscript editing.

Patricia A. McGoldrick Patricia A. McGoldrick’s poem, Girls and Green Apples was chosen for the Monday’s Poem, week of June 2, 2014 at www.leafpress.ca.

John Terpstra In September 2014, Kate Braid and John Terpstra, both carpenters, both poets and non‐fiction writers, did a western reading tour called "Wood and Words." They read on Hornby and Pender Islands and in Nanaimo, Victoria and Vancouver. For more info: www.katebraid.com.

Sheri‐D Wilson Sheri‐D Wilson is pleased to announce an international Fall Tour of readings, workshops and performances to celebrate her newest collection of poetry Open Letter: Woman Against Violence Against Women.

The tour will take her to Mexico City Festival de Poesía: Las Lenguas de América and to Barcelona, Spain for the Festival Internacional d’Spoken Word de Barcelona.

Upon her return she will also be performing at home in Sheri‐D Wilson and Friends ‐ IN CONCERT a one‐ night‐only dinner and feature concert in the historic surrounding of Heritage Park, Calgary.

• October 9: Mexico City – Festival de Poesía: Las Lenguas de América. Featured Artist www.lenguasdeamerica.blogspot.ca. • October 13: Calgary – Wordfest

11 • October 13‐19: Victoria, BC – National SLAM ‐ Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Featured Artist and Masterclass Workshop www.cfsw.ca. • October 17: Calgary – Wordfest • October 24 & 25: Barcelona, Spain – Festival Internacional d’Spoken Word de Barcelona. Featured Artist. • November 19: Calgary, Heritage Park – Sheri‐D Wilson and Friends ‐ IN CONCERT. 6:30 pm – Dinner followed by a feature performance in the historic Canmore Opera House. For more info: www.heritagepark.ca.

Sheri‐D Wilson has 9 collections of poetry; Open Letter is preceded by, Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe. Her collection, Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit Award.

She has 2 Spoken Word CDs (arranged by Russell Broom), and four award‐winning VideoPoems: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002), Surf Rave Girrly Girrl (2004), and The Panty Portal (2008), all produced for BravoFACT. In 2011 she edited, The Spoken Word Workbook: inspiration from poets who teach—the Go‐To educational tool for teach¬ing and writing Spoken Word.

In 2012 she was featured in Chatelaine Magazine, in a story about the creative mind. A regular on CBC, in 2013 she was interviewed by Canadian icon Sheilah Rogers. In 2011 she was honored to be presented by The National Slam of Canada in “Legends of Spoken Word.” Of the beat tradition, in 1989 Sheri‐D studied at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado.

Anne‐Marie Woods aka Amani the Contemporary Blues Poet will launch her new Spoken Word CD "Poetree Huggin" on Saturday October 18th ‐ 6pm with a 90 minute concert at the Studio 60 Theatre ‐ 60 Six Point Road in Etobicoke. Tickets are $25.00 @ the Door for information 416‐706‐7694 e mail [email protected] or go to our website www.imaniartsbiz.com Special Guests Artists include: Young Poets ‐ 10 year old Unique & 16 year old Faith Paré, Beatboxer ‐ Ryan “Beatspawn” Buckspan , Nova Scotia Soul Singer ‐ Kirsten Olivia, Jeremiah Sparks on keys and Fabio Parovel on the guitar.

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