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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.



***Join us for dinner! The back room of Clinton's is now open at 7pm,
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!

***FACEBOOK: If you run a search for "Art Bar Poetry Series" you'll find
our Facebook group. We send out a message around the 15th of each month
with the current listings.



TUESDAY JULY 7

Katerina Fretwell
Katerina Fretwell, born in wartime New York City, has published five
collections of poetry, most recently Samsara: Canadian in Asia, has poems
appearing or forthcoming in The Antigonish Review, Rampike, The Windsor
ReView, The Fiddlehead and Jones Av, edited two anthologies for the League
of Canadian Poets in 2005 and 2007and chaired the Lowther Jury Prize,
2006. Her art and poetry reside in Canada, Denmark, Japan and The United
States and she sang choral tenor in Maia Vimboule's Spring Fantasy
featuring works by Antonio Vivaldi and Henry Purcell.

Francine P. Lewis
Francine P. Lewis has had poems published in local magazines and short
stories in science fiction anthologies. She has also written articles for
the opera magazine, ARIAS. She is the author of one science fiction novel
- which is still searching for a home - and is currently working on her
second novel, a novella and a collection of poetry. Eurydice Dreams (Conch
Pearl Press) is her first chapbook.

Jem Rolls
"Jem Rolls is a British performance poet who is a combination of Dr.
Seuss, T.S. Eliot, David Byrne and a madman. You know all the words that
aren't in Cam and Legs? They're in How I Stopped Worrying and Learnt to
Love the Mall. This is Rolls' Odyssey, his epic 8500 word poem about the
search for the meaning of the mall, and how he finds it in line at a mall
supermarket as Coward of the County plays over the speakers. Rolls starts
out at high energy and ends at about Defcon 9. He's the hardest-working
poet in the fringe business, and says so many thoughtful, interesting
things, he just might change the way you look at life."
Bio by Stephen Hunt


TUESDAY JULY 14

Lauren Carter
Lauren Carter lives in Orillia, Ontario, where she writes fiction, poetry
and the occasional freelance assignment for magazines and newspapers. She
is currently engaged in the MFA Ð Creative Writing program at the
University of Guelph-Humber and is working on a novel with the mentorship
of Susan Swan. Her first collection of poetry, Lichen Bright, was
published by Sudbury's Your Scrivener Press in 2005.

Paulos Ioannou
Paulos Ioannou was born on the island of Cyprus of Greek ancestry. He
immigrated to Canada in 1969. He started writing poetry at a very young
age and his work has been published in Greek literary magazines and
periodicals. He is the author of four full-length collections written in
Greek and is featured in the Anthology of Cypriot Poets . His Greek poetry
is greatly influenced by the tragic events in Cyprus and the
inter-communal strife between Greek and Turkish Cypriots which was
masterfully orchestrated by our esteemed democratic Western powers for
their military and geopolitical interest in the area. He started writing
in English about four years ago. The Age of Hydra is his first full-length
poetry collection in English.

Desi Di Nardo
Desi Di Nardo is a poet and author in Toronto whose work has been
published in numerous North American and international journals and
anthologies including the Literary Review of Canada, Globe and Mail,
Grain, and Descant. Her poetry has been performed at the National Arts
Centre, featured in Poetry on the Way on the TTC, displayed in the
Official Residences of Canada, and printed on Starbucks cups. She has also
worked as an English professor and Writer-in-Residence. Desi's book of
poetry, The Plural of Some Things, was recently published by Guernica
Editions. Visit www.desidinardo.com


TUESDAY JULY 21

Souvankham Thammavongsa
Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of two poetry books from Pedlar
Press, Found and Small Arguments, which won a ReLit award in 2004. She has
presented her poems at Emily Carr in Vancouver, the International Festival
of Authors in Toronto, and the Scream in High Park. Her most recent poetry
book, Found, was awarded a Bravo!FACT grant and is now a short film.

Nashira Dernesch
Nashira grew up in the village of St. Jacobs, Ontario, and studied at the
University of Toronto before being accepted into York University's
Creative Writing Program. She was co-editor of the literary journal
Existere for three years and won the Art Bar Poetry Series' annual
Discovery Night in 2006. Her first chap book, It's No Secret YouÕll Feel
Better (believe your own press), sold out within 2 days of its publication
and is now in its second printing. Her second chap book, This Snowing
Under, was recently published by The Emergency Response Unit. She is
currently working on a full-length collection.

Sandra Kasturi
Sandra Kasturi is a poet, writer and editor. In 2005 she won ARC
magazine's annual Poem of the Year award. She is the poetry editor of
ChiZine and the Senior Editor of ChiZine Publications. Sandra has written
three poetry chapbooks and has edited the poetry anthology, The Stars As
Seen from this Particular Angle of Night. Her work has appeared in various
magazines and anthologies, including Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2,
TransVersions, On Spec, several of the Tesseracts series, 2001: A Science
Fiction Poetry Anthology, and Northern Frights 4. Her cultural essay,
ÒDivine Secrets of the Yaga SisterhoodÓ appeared in the anthology Girls
Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers, Mutants and Freaks. Sandra is a founding
member of the Algonquin Square Table poetry workshop and runs her own
imprint, Kelp Queen Press. She managed to snag an introduction from Neil
Gaiman for her first full-length poetry collection, The Animal Bridegroom
(Tightrope Books). She is currently working on two novels: Medusa Gorgon,
Lady Detective, and a steampunk epic involving the British East India
Company, the Pinkerton Agency, Harry Houdini and zombies.


TUESDAY JULY 28

Catherine Graham
Catherine Graham is the author of three poetry collections: The Watch,
Pupa and The Red Element. She teaches creative writing at the University
of Toronto, the Haliburton School of the Arts and Diaspora Dialogues. Her
writing has appeared in such journals as The New Quarterly, The
Fiddlehead, Taddle Creek, The Literary Review of Canada and Poetry Ireland
Review. She is Vice President of Project Bookmark Canada and Marketing
Coordinator for the Rowers Pub Reading Series. Visit:
www.catherinegraham.com

Christopher Doda
Christopher Doda is a poet, editor and critic living in Toronto. He is the
author of two collections of poetry from the Mansfield Press, Among Ruins
and Aesthetics Lesson. He is an editor for Exile: The Literary Quarterly
and Exile Editions. He is also the book review editor for Studio an online
poetry journal.

Duncan Armstrong
>From 1991 to 1999 Duncan was the force behind Bushwack Theatre. In 2002 he
jumped back into the poetry/spoken scene - he's had work published in CV2,
Labor of Love, Jackknife Express, Renaissance Conspiracy anthologies; been
featured on HOWL, as well as Cryptic Chatter, Hot-Sauced Words, Poetic
Justice, George Harvey High School & Word Jam. He has performed at Word on
the Street 2008 (& invited back again for 2009), Pride 2005 & 2009. He has
published several chap books including Lament for Anna Nicole & Shooting
off Sparks. http://www.youtube.com/user/TOpoet
He also hosts the occasional 'Oral Stage' at Paddy's Playhouse in Wildside
Studios, 161 Gerrard St. E.


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