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The Art Bar Poetry Series takes place at
Clinton's, 693 Bloor Street West, right by Christie Subway Station.
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Every Tuesday, 8 pm sharp.
Free, but we pass the hat for donations.



TUESDAY MARCH 4

Robert Boates
In 1989 Robert Boates fell down a flight of stairs and was in a coma for
several months. He emerged slowly back to consciousness and that journey
back is the story of the rest of his life. His poetry has appeared in such
journals as Grain, Hammered Out and paperplates. He is the author of two
books of poetry: The Afterlife (Seraphim Editions) and He Carries Fear
(Cactus Tree Press).

John Allemang
John Allemang has been writing weekly topical poems for The Globe and Mail
since 2002. A selection of his deadline verse, Poetic Justice, was
published by Firefly in 2006. Since writing late-breaking poetry wasn't
demanding enough, he made himself the Globe's Book A Day book reviewer,
and read more than 250 volumes before calling it a day. He takes every
opportunity to say he studied Classics at university. Go Ovid!

Bill Howell
Bill Howell was a CBC Radio Drama producer-director for 27 years, until
the cuts caught up to him. Since then, his poems have appeared regularly
in literary magazines across the country. Bill has three published
collections, The Red Fox (McClelland & Stewart), In a White Shirt (Black
Moss Press), and Moonlight Saving Time (Wolsak and Wynn), as well as a
recently released chapbook, Ghost Test Flights. (Rubicon Press)


TUESDAY MARCH 11

Open Stage Night hosted by Stephen Humphrey
- sign-up starts at 7:30 pm
- one poem per person
- participants should bring more than one poem in case there is time for
additional rounds


TUESDAY MARCH 18

Clara Blackwood
Clara Blackwood is a Toronto-based writer. Her first book of poetry,
Subway Medusa, was published by Guernica Editions in December 2007. Subway
Medusa is the inaugural book in Guernica's First Poets Series, which
showcases first books by poets thirty-five and under. From 1998-2004,
Clara ran the monthly Syntactic Sunday Reading Series at the Free Times
Cafe.

Rudy Fearon
Rudy Fearon published his first book, Free Soil, on CD-Rom. His second
book, Spin, published on paper, features an introduction by George Elliott
Clarke. He was one of the poets profiled in the TV series, Heart of a
Poet. Born in Jamaica, he has lived in Toronto since 1974. He will be
celebrating his new book, Noise In My Mind.

Maureen Hynes
Maureen Hynes, a past winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and a recent
winner of Britain's Petra Kenney Prize, is working on her third poetry
manuscript, The Geometry We Want. Her poetry was included in the recent
anthology, Garden Variety (Quattro Books). She teaches at George Brown
College in Toronto.


TUESDAY MARCH 25

Jeff Latosik
Jeff Latosik is currently an MFA student at the University of Guelph. He
has poems in recent issues of The Malahat Review and The Antigonish
Review, and is preparing his first manuscript. He lives in Toronto.

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco has authored seventeen collections of poetry since
1976 and was a seminal figure in Canadian multiculturalism with his
edition of the first anthology of Italian-Canadian writers. In 1984 he
removed himself from the world of letters and became an Augustinian
Brother, and was subsequently ordained to the Roman Catholic Priesthood.
He returned to the world of literature in 2000 with four successive
volumes of poetry including, The Dark Time of Angels (The Mansfield Press)
which was nominated for the 2004 Trillium Award. He is the Poet Laureate
of the City of Toronto.

Ariel Platt
Ariel Platt is an emerging spoken word poet who first stepped onto a stage
less than a year ago. A native Torontonian, her performance is a high
energy combination of her sense of humour, quirky observational skills,
motor mouth tendencies, and quite often her propensity to rhyme. She is
the co-founder of Eventworks, a company that specializes in onsite digital
photo novelties (www.eventworks.ca).


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- The Art Bar Team


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