[Artbar] November at The Art Bar

[The Art Bar Poetry Series]

No October note
Haiku to explain server
Glitch not poetic

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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
Free admission, but we pass the hat for donations.


Art Bar News
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so feel free to drop in to chat with the poetry features, the Art Bar Team,
fellow poets, or whoever happens to enjoy dinner & drinks & mingling!

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Art Bar Features
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3

Maleea Acker
Maleea Acker is a writer, publisher (of La Mano Izquierda/Left Hand Press)
and English instructor. Her work has recently appeared in The Best
Canadian Poetry in English, 2008 and Rocksalt: An Anthology of
Contemporary BC Poetry. Her first full length collection of poetry, The
Reflecting Pool, appeared with Pedlar Press. She lives near Victoria, BC.

Carla Drysdale
Carla Drysdale was born in London, Ontario and was educated at Ryerson
University in Toronto as well as Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her
poems have appeared in Canadian and US journals, including the *Literary
Review of Canada*, *Canadian Literature*, *The Fiddlehead*, *Global City
Review,* *The Same,* and*LIT*. She has won several fellowships to the
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she collaborated with
Pulitzer-prizeÐwinning composer David Del Tredici, who set her poem, "New
Year's Eve" to music. She lives near Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband
and two sons and works in public radio as a news editor. Carla's first
book of poems, Little Venus, is forthcoming from Tightrope Books.

Susan McMaster
Susan McMaster's memoir, The Gargoyle's Left Ear: Writing in Ottawa (2007,
surveys three decades of publishing, broadcasting, and performing poetry
across Canada and abroad, notably with Geode Music & Poetry and First
Draft, and on shows like WordBeat, Go!, Richardson's Roundup, As It
Happens, and Morningside. Editing projects include Branching Out magazine;
Dangerous Graces: Women's Poetry on Stage; Siolence: Women, Violence and
Silence; and Waging Peace: Poetry and Political Action. Until the Light
Bends, her seventh book-plus-CD, shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award and
the Archibald Lampman Poetry Prize. Her new collection is Along Crossing
Arcs: The Alzheimer Poems (Black Moss 2009)


TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10

Moez Surani
Moez Surani's writing has been included in numerous anthologies and
literary journals including Carousel, Prairie Fire, Vallum and Arc Poetry
Magazine. He has served as a writer-in-residence for the Toronto Catholic
District School Board and curator for the Strong Words Reading Series in
Toronto. His multi-lingual upbringing is reflected in his award-winning
writing.

Nathaniel G. Moore
Nathaniel G. Moore is most recently the author of Wrong Bar (Tightrope
Books) and Pastels Are Pretty Much The Polar Opposite of Chalk (Punchy
Writers, DC Books) He also authored Bowlbrawl (Conundrum) and Let's
Pretend We Never Met (Pedlar) and is currently assistant editor of Broken
Pencil Magazine and a columnist for Open Book Toronto.

Phoebe Tsang
Phoebe Tsang was born in Hong Kong, grew up in England and currently
resides in Canada. She is the author of the poetry collection Contents of
a Mermaid's Purse (Tightrope Books, 2009). Phoebe's poetry can be found in
the anthologies Garden Variety (Quattro Books) and Not a Muse (Haven
Books). Journal credits include Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), Atlas02
(UK & India), Brand (UK), Room and Freefall (Canada). Her chapbooks are
Solitaires (Lyricalmyrical Press, 2006) and To Kiss the Ground (Press On!
2007). A professional violinist, she is a multi-genre artist who holds a
BSc in Architecture from the University of London. www.phoebetsang.com


TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17

Rocco de Giacomo
Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet whose work has most recently
been accepted in the literary journals Vallum and The Carolina Quarterly
and has recently appeared The Antigonish Review and Tower Poetry. On
October 18th, 2009, his first full-length poetry collection, Ten Thousand
Miles Between Us, is to be launched through Quattro Books. Also, his fifth
and latest collection of poems, Catching Dawn's Breath (LyricalMyrical
Press, Toronto) was launched in March of 2008. Rocco has also been a
regular contributor of personal essays to Toro Magazine. He is a member of
the council for the Art Bar Poetry Series and a member of the bpNichol
Coordinating Committee.

Steve Venright
Steve Venright's books include Straunge Wunder (Tortoiseshell & Black,
1996), Spiral Agitator (Coach House Books, 2000) and Floors of Enduring
Beauty (Mansfield Press, 2007). As well as being an author, he has
released several remarkable recordings through his Torpor Vigil Industries
record label, such as Songs of Elsewhere by Samuel Andreyev and The
Further Somniloquies of Dion McGregor: More Outrageous Recordings of the
World's Most Renowned Sleeptalker. As a visual artist, he has created and
exhibited digitally modified paintings he calls "variegraphs" and
"tryptiles". Samples of this abstract art can be found online at the
Torpor Vigil Industries website. Steve was born in Sarnia, Canada in 1961.
At the age of twenty he crossed the plains of Southwestern Ontario and has
resided in Toronto ever since.

Jason Guriel
Jason Guriel, author of Pure Product (Signal, 2009) and Technicolored
(Exile, 2006), is widely published in American, British, and Canadian
magazines. He received the Frederick Bock Prize from Poetry Magazine, and
his work was anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English
(Tightrope, 2008). Jason Guriel lives in Toronto.


TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24

rob mclennan
Born in Ottawa, and currently living there as well, Rob McLennan is the
author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his
most recent titles are the poetry collections gifts (Talonbooks), a
compact of words (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), kate street (Moira), wild
horses (University of Alberta Press) and a second novel, missing persons
(The Mercury Press). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press,
Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review
(ottawater.com/garneaureview) seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and
poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual
ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton
as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts
reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.
He will be spending much of the next year in Toronto.

Jacob Scheier
Jacob Scheier is a Toronto writer, currently residing in New York City.
His first poetry collection More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press, 2007) won the
2008 Governor General's Award for English language poetry. His poems have
appeared in several literary journals in North America and have been aired
on CBC radio. He is a regular contributor of articles and essays to
Toronto's NOW Magazine and New York's The Indypendent. His poem "You're
the Kind of Woman" was recently published in the anthology Leonard Cohen:
You're Our Man.

Kate Marshall Flaherty
Kate Marshall Flaherty is grateful to add where we are going to her other
books of poetry, Hobbeldehoy, String of Mysteries and Tilted Equilibrium.
Her poetry has been published in journals such as CV2, The Windsor Review,
Quills, Ascent Aspirations, Other Voices, and Freefall, and several
Canadian and International Poetry Anthologies, including Not A Muse. She
was short-listed for Descant's Best Canadian Poem, Nimrod's Pablo Neruda
Poetry Prize, won first place for the Canadian Church Press Awards, and
won honorable mentions for CV2's 48-hour poetry contest and the GritLIT
Literary Awards. She lives with her family here in Toronto.



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