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The Art Bar Poetry Series takes place at
Clinton's, 693 Bloor Street West, right by Christie Subway Station.
Click for map: http://www.artbar.org/artbarmap.jpg
Every Tuesday, 8 pm sharp.
Free, but we pass the hat for donations.


TUESDAY MAY 6

Keith Garebian
Keith Garebian is a freelance literary, theatre and dance critic, editor,
biographer and poet who lives in Mississauga. His new book, Blue: The
Derek Jarman Poems (Signature Editions), is about Derek Jarman, the
underground English painter, writer, filmmaker, and gay icon. A previous
poetry book, Frida: Paint Me As A Volcano (Buschek Books), was longlisted
for the ReLit Award.

Gianna Patriarca
Born in Italy, Gianna Patriarca emigrated to Canada as a child. She is the
author of six books of poetry including Italian Women and Other Tragedies
(Guernica Editions). Her poetry was included in the recent anthology
Garden Variety (Quattro Books). She will be celebrating her new book My
Etruscan Face (Quattro Books).

Jacob McArthur Mooney
Jacob McArthur Mooney is a transplanted Atlantic-Canadian now living in
Mississauga where he's finishing the Guelph Creative Writing MFA. He is
the poetry editor at ThievesJargon.com and the founder of The Facebook
Review. He will be reading from his first book of poems, The New Layman's
Almanac, recently released by McClelland & Stewart.


TUESDAY MAY 13

The Artbardy Har Har
An evening of comedic poetry hosted by Valentino Assenza and featuring
Jeff Cottrill, Arianna Pozuolli, Mike Bryant, Myna Wallin, David Clink,
and Luciano Iacobelli.
Open mic readers are encouraged to bust out their most hilarious material!


TUESDAY MAY 20

Tanis MacDonald
Tanis MacDonald is the author of two books of poetry: Holding Ground
(Seraphim Editions) and Fortune (Turnstone Press). She received the Bliss
Carmen Poetry Prize in 2003. She is a former Art Bar board member and now
serves as professor of poetry and all things Canadian at Wilfred Laurier
University in Waterloo. She will be celebrating her new poetry book, Rue
the Day (Turnstone Press).

Catherine Graham
Catherine Graham is the author of three poetry collections. She teaches
creative writing at the University of Toronto and designs and delivers
workshops on creativity for the business and academic communities. She
will be celebrating her new poetry book, The Red Element (Insomniac
Press).

Fraser Sutherland
Fraser Sutherland is the author of nine books of poetry, as well as books
of criticism, bibliography, non-fiction and fiction. He has been a senior
contributing reviewer at The Globe and Mail since 1998. His work has
appeared in more than 100 periodicals and anthologies in Canada, USA,
Great Britain, France, Serbia, Iran, Albania and Bangladesh. His most
recent poetry collection is Manual for Emigrants (Tightrope Books).


TUESDAY MAY 27

Carmine Starnino
Carmine Starnino has published three volumes of poetry for which he has
won the Canadian Authors Association Prize, the A.M.Klein Award, and the
F.G.Bressani Prize. He was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. His
most recent collection is With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press). He is
the author of A Lover's Quarrel (Porcupine's Quill), a collection of
essays on Canadian poetry. He is the editor of The New Canon: An Anthology
of Canadian Poetry (Vehicule Press). He is editor for the Signal Editions
poetry series and an associate editor for Books in Canada.

George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, editor, playwright, literary critic, and
a professor of English at the University of Toronto. He joins print and
oral poetry in his work. He received the Governor General's Award for
Execution Poems (Gaspereau Press). His book, Whylah Falls (Polestar) won
the Archibald Lampman Award. He wrote the libretto for his verse-play
Beatrice Chancy (Polestar). His most recent poetry book is Quebecite
(Gaspereau Press). He has been honoured with the Martin Luther King Jr.
Achievement Award.

Kevin Fortnum
Kevin Fortnum has been part of the Toronto poetry scene for close to five
years. He is part of a six-person collective, Last Call Poets and hosts
the poetry series "She Rusty Sleep" at the Skydragon in Hamilton. He has
been dubbed the "Lou Reed" of the Toronto word scene.



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