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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 SEPTEMBER 2

Allan Briesmaster
Allan Briesmaster is a freelance editor, micropublisher and literary
consultant specializing in poetry and non-fiction. He has been involved
with the organizing of literary events in Toronto, such as Phoenix Poetry
Workshop, Art Bar Poetry Series, and Toronto WordStage. He is the author
of five chapbooks and four full-length books of poetry, including
Interstellar (Quattro Books).

James Arthur
An American-Canadian poet, James Arthur is currently a Stegner Fellow in
Poetry at Stanford. His poetry has been published in such magazines as The
New Yorker, The New Republic and The Nation. His awards include the Amy
Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Discovery/Nation prize, The
Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize and fellowships at Yaddo and the
MacDowell Colony.

Amani
Amani was born in England, baptized in Trinidad, grew up in Nova Scotia.
She is a graduate of the Dalhousie Professional Actor Training Program and
was a member of the acapella group, Four The Moment, which won the African
Canadian Artist of the Year Award in 1998. Her poetry has been featured at
Theatre Passe Muraille, Harbourfront Centre, CBC TV, City TV. Recently she
received a Bob Marley Day Award for her work in youth outreach and
community development. Her debut CD, Amani the Words, the Rhythm, the
Music, was sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and released in
2007.


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9

Liz Zetlin
Liz Zetlin is a visual artist, filmmaker and poet living in Grey County,
currently serving as Owen Sound's first Poet Laureate. She is co-director
of the Words Aloud Spoken Word Festival (www.wordsaloud.ca) and the
Festival Documentary/Educational DVD. She is the author of several
collections of poetry including The Thing With Feathers (BuschekBooks).

Sheri Benning
Sheri Benning is the author of two books of poetry, Earth After Rain
(Thistledown Press) won both the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and the
Brenda Riches MacDonald First Book Award. Her second book Thin Moon Psalm
(Brick Books) won the Anne Szumilgalski Poetry Award and the City of
Saskatoon Book Prize and the Alfred G. Bailey Award. She hails from
Churchbridge SK and is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the University
of Glasgow in Scotland.

Jon Paul Fiorentino
Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of four books of poetry. His most recent
book is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books). His most recent
projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour
(DC Books) and Post-Prairie (Talonbooks), a collaborative effort with
Robert Kroetsch. He is the editor of Matrix magazine.He lives in Montreal.


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 16

Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott, only son of Canadian poet F.R.Scott, is a former
Canadian diplomat. He has published five books of poetry and three
chapbooks. His most recent book is the third volume of his trilogy
Seculum: Minding the Darkness (New Directions). With Czeslaw Milosz he
translated the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert (Penguin). In 2002 he received
the Lannan Poetry Award and in 1988 he was a finalist for the
Governor-General's Award. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Betsy Struthers
Betsy Struthers has published eight books of poetry, most recently Where
the Night Comes Closest (Black Moss). A series of poems in this
collection, Writing Down the Moon, was shortlisted for the 2005 CBC
Literary Awards. An earlier book, Still (Black Moss) won the 2004 Pat
Lowther Award. Struthers is a past president of the League of Canadian
Poets. She lives in Peterborough.

Peter Richardson
Peter Richardson is the author of three books of poetry. The most recent
book is Sympathy for the Couriers (Vehicule Press). His first book, A
Tinker's Picnic (Vehicule Press), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert
Award. His second book, An ABC of Belly Work (Vehicule Press), was a
finalist for the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award. His poems have
appeared in Poetry (Chicago), Sonora Review, Prism International and The
Rialto (UK) among others. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec.


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23

Sharon Thesen
Sharon Thesen is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent
being The Good Bacteria (Anansi). From 2001 - 2005 she was the editor of
The Capilano Review, a literary and visual arts magazine. In 2002 she was
a jury member for the Griffin Prize for poetry. She has won the Pat
Lowther Award and been shortlisted three times for the Governor General's
Award. She lives in Lake Country, BC.

Jason Camlot
Jason Camlot is the author of three books of poetry. The most recent book
is The Debaucher (Insomniac Press). His work has appeared in New American
Writing, Postmodern Culture and English Literary History. He is the poetry
editor of the Punchy Writing Series, a new imprint of DC Books. He lives
in Montreal.

Iggy McGovern
Iggy McGovern lives in Dublin, Ireland. His first book, King of Suburbia
(Dedalus Press) won both the New Writers Award (judged by Ciaran Carson)
and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary (judged by Paul Duncan). He
recently presented his poetry at the Ledbury Poetry Festival (UK) and the
Yeats Festival. He will be travelling on a poetry tour to the east coast
USA. The Art Bar Poetry Series is his only reading in Canada.


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30

RM Vaughan
RM Vaughan is a Toronto-based writer and video artist originally from New
Brunswick. His books include poetry, fiction, plays and essays. Vaughan
writes a weekly celebrity-interview column for The Globe and Mail. He will
be celebrating his latest poetry book, Troubled (Coach House Books).

Marilyn Gear Pilling
Marilyn Gear Pilling is the author of two collections of short fiction and
three books of poetry. Recently she won 3rd prize in Prairie Fire's
Creative Non-fiction category and placed in the finals for the CBC
literary competition. She grew up in Waterloo and now lives in Hamilton,
but her roots are in Huron County. She will be reading from her latest
book, Cleavage: A Life in Breasts (Black Moss Press).

Eric Miller
Eric Miller is the author of three books of poetry. In 2000 he won The
Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize and in 1996 he won the Academy
of American Poets Prize (U of Virginia). He will be celebrating his most
recent poetry collection, A Day in Moss (Fitzhenry and Whiteside). He
lives in Victoria BC.



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