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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 JULY 1

Tanya Davis
Tanya Davis is spoken word poet based in Halifax. She has been performing
her poetry since 2000 and has participated in writers fests on both
coasts, such as Halifax Writers Fest, Word on the Street and Under the
Volcano. She had two regional wins in the CBC Poetry Faceoff.

Ronda Eller
Ronda Eller lives in Clinton, Ontario. Her poetry has been published by
Serengeti Press, HMS Press, Poemata, Canadian Zen Haiku Magazine and
Labour of Love Literary Journal. She is currently the National Media
Coordinator for the Canadian Poetry Association. She will be celebrating
her first full volume of poetry, The Lion and the Golden Calf (SkyWing
Press).

Klyde Broox
Klyde Broox is a Jamaican born and groomed, veteran, internationally
seasoned, dubpoet. A former James Michener Fellow of the University of
Miami's Caribbean Writers' Summer Institute, Klyde won the 2005 City of
Hamilton Arts Award for Literature. He has published, Poemstorm (1989),
and My Best Friend is White (McGilligan Books, 2005). The latter won the
2006 Hamilton/Seraphim Editions Award for Best Poetry Book.


TUESDAY JULY  8

Heather Haley
Media poet Heather Haley was born in Matapedia QC and now lives in
Vancouver BC. She is the author of Sideways (Anvil Press) and Dying For
the Pleasure - videopoems. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The
Antigonish Review, Northern Lights and sub-TERRAIN. She is the architect
of Edgewise ElectroLit Centre and the Vancouver Videopoem Festival. She is
also curator and host of See The Voice: Visible Verse @ Pacific
Cinematheque.

Terence Go
Terence Go is a first gen, Indonesian-Canadian spoken word artist. His
work has been published in Misunderstandings Magazine, and he has released
two collections: UNgh (2007) and bEaTing OuT tHE kInX (2000). He has
facilitated OUTwrites, a queer positive writing group since 2003.

Luciano Iacobelli
Luciano Iacobelli is a poet and publisher. He is the author of 7 chapbooks
and one full length poetry book, The Angel Notebook (Seraphim Editions).
He operates a micropress, Lyricalmyrical Press, where he has published
some of Toronto's most outstanding up-and-coming voices side by side with
some of the city's more established voices. A partner in Quattro Books, a
board member of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, he is one of the
organizers of the Toronto Wordstage Reading Series.


TUESDAY JULY  15

Domenico Capilongo
Domenico Capilongo lives in Toronto. He teaches high school creative
writing, alternative education and practices karate. His work has been
published in such journals as Descant, Vallum, The New Quarterly and has
appeared in the recent anthology, Garden Variety (Quattro Books). He will
be celebrating his first book of poetry, I Thought Elvis was Italian
(Wolsak and Wynn).

Seth-Adrian Harris
Seth-Adrian Harris is a Jamaican-Canadian performance poet and
award-winning filmmaker. In 2002, he won the Vision Award For Best
Direction of a Videopoem. His publications include Sacredspace/Urbansprawl
(Fetus Fiction Press, 2004) and Sista Someone (Itoti Productions, poetic
film, 2000). Bravo, the arts television station, calls his work "visceral
manifestos of the Black experience". He lives in Toronto.

Carla Hartsfield
Carla Hartsfield is the author of three full collections. Your Last Day on
Earth (Brick Books, 2003) was long-listed for the ReLit Award. Her work
has been published in the recent anthology, Garden Variety (Quattro Books)
and in such journals as Prairie Fire and Rampike. She is a classically
trained pianist and lives in Toronto. She will be celebrating her latest
chapbook, BLOOD (LyricalMyrical).


TUESDAY JULY  22

Spencer Butt
Spencer was born in a small town and is now lost in a big city. His legs
are an old red bicycle and his eyes go fuzzy without glasses. His diet is
comic books and video games and his lungs are full of laugh induced tears
and his heart is actually a stick of dynamite in a bird cage masquerading
as a major pain in the ass. He has the posture of a weeping willow and the
attention span of a. He dreams in horror movies and belongs to the church
that professional wrestling built. When he grows up he wants to be a
cryptozoologist or not a disappointment. He has been seen performing poems
in and around Ontario at such events as the 2006 Canadian Festival of
Spoken Word, Demenchia 5, Word Jam, Wavelength, Cryptic Chatter, Strong
Words, The Last Comedy Show, Laugh Sabbath, Throw It Thru Your Radio
(Montreal) and others. When he is not traveling to various schools in the
GTA giving seminars on spoken word poetry he can be seen Saturday nights
on SunTV's "King Kaboom". His mom likes his poems even though there are
swears.

Jaclyn Piudik
Jaclyn Piudik has had poems in Crosscurrents, Columbia Poetry Review,
Barrow Street, among others. Her work was included in the recent
anthology, Garden Variety (Quattro Books). She is the author of one
chapbook, The Tao of Loathliness (Fooliar Press). Currently she is working
on a PhD in medieval literature at UofT.

Christopher Doda
Christopher Doda is a poet, critic, and editor living in Toronto.He has
published two collections with the Mansfield Press: Among Ruins (2001) and
most recently Aesthetics Lesson (2007). He is an editor at Exile Quarterly
and Exile Editions, as well as book review editor for Studio, an online
poetry journal.


TUESDAY JULY  29

OmahaRisinG
In previous incarnations, OmahaRisinG has been (with no particular order
of significance) an amateur kickboxer, a postal worker, and a firefighter.
In 2001, he ran POETICA, a weekly series in Toronto, where he lives. He is
the author of Eudysia (Mimp Yob, 2007).

James Dewar
James Dewar is a poet who encourages the popularization of poetry in the
Toronto area. He enjoys attending as many readings as possible and
publishes other poets through CreativeJames Publishing. Three years ago he
started his own Poetry series, Hot-Sauced Words, which continues to do
well the first Thursday of every month. He was one of 27 poets who
represented Canada during Random Acts of Poetry week in October 2007. He
is the author of The Garden in the Machine (Hidden Brook Press, 2007). He
will be reading from his new book, Forbidden Tree (Go ForWords
Publishing).

Karen Petersen
Karen Petersen is a Toronto writer. She says "Karen Petersen has been an
emerging poet for nigh on thirty years. Let that be a lesson to you."




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