[Artbar] April at The Art Bar

[The Art Bar Poetry Series]

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 Notes
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April is Poetry Month! If you haven't been out to The Art Bar in a while,
perhaps this is the month to drop in and celebrate poetry with us.

Please visit http://theartbar.wordpress.com for photos & audio clips from
Art Bar readings. Listen to poetry while you fold laundry!

The back room of Clinton's is open at 7pm, so feel free to drop in early
to chat with the poetry features, the Art Bar Team, fellow poets, or
whoever happens to enjoy dinner & drinks & mingling!



Art Bar Features
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TUESDAY APRIL 6

Patricia Young
Patricia Young's first collection of short fiction, Airstream (Biblioasis
2006, won the Rooke-Metcalfe Award. It was also short-listed for the
Butler Prize and included on the Globe and Mail's list of Best One Hundred
Books of 2006. She has published nine collections of poetry, most
recently, "Here Come the Moonbathers" (Biblioasis 2008. Her numerous
awards for poetry include the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy
Livesay Prize, the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition
and the CBC Literary competition. She has twice been nominated for the
Governor General's Award for poetry. In 2008 she won Prairie Fire's Poetry
Competition, Grain's Prose Poem Contest and Arc's Poem of the Year Prize.
In 2007/08 she was the writer in residence at the University of New
Brunswick. She lives in Victoria, B. C. Collaborating with Poetry London,
Hamilton Poetry Centre and Redeemer College

Sue Chenette
Sue Chenette is a poet and classical pianist who grew up in northern
Wisconsin and has made her home in Toronto since 1972. Her poems have
appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, Great
Britain, and France. Slender Human Weight, her first full-length
collection, was launched by Guernica Editions in December 2009. She is
also the author of three chapbooks: A Transport of Grief; Solitude in
Cloud and Sun, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry
Association's Shaunt Basmajian Award in 2001.

Priscila Uppal
Priscila Uppal is a Toronto writer born in Ottawa in 1974. Among her
publications are five collections of poetry, including, most recently:
Live Coverage (2003 and Ontological Necessities (2006; all with Exile
Editions; and the novels The Divine Economy of Salvation (2002 and To Whom
It May Concern (2009. Her work has been translated into several languages,
and Ontological Necessities was short-listed for the prestigious 50,000
Griffin Poetry Prize. She has a PhD in English Literature and is a
professor at York University. In 2010 she will release Successful
Tragedies: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, U.K). and Traumatology (Exile
Editions).


TUESDAY APRIL 13

John Barlow
John Barlow was born in 1960 in Moncton NB. "Air force brat, we were moved
to St Jean Quebec, then, left Air Force for Windsor Ontario. Went to
Windsor University, have lived in Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto as an
adult. 3 Tradebooks with Exile, a CD/book with Balmer Press, books with
Laurel Reed Books, Letters, and Lyrical Miracle Editions, has day job."

Alexandra Oliver
Alexandra Oliver was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1970. She attended the
University of Toronto and received an M.A. in Drama in 1994. Her poems
have appeared in numerous journals and publications worldwide, including
Orbis Rhyme International, Nexus, Mezzo Cammin, Future Cycle Poetry, The
Atlanta Review, The Toronto Quarterly, The Raintown Review and The
Vancouver Sun, as well as About.Com's Poems After The Attack anthology, a
collection discussing and reflecting upon the aftermath of 9/11. Her first
book, Where the English Housewife Shines (Tin Press, London, UK) was
released in May, 2007. Her second manuscript, The Hand of Scheveningen,
was recently shortlisted for the 2009 CBC Literary Awards.

Jacquie Buncel
Jacquie Buncel's poetry has been published in journals such as Fireweed;
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal; Kaleidoscope: An International
Journal of Poetry; CV2 and Poetica: Reflections of Jewish Thought. Her
poetry and short fiction have appeared in a number of anthologies
including Outrage: Dykes and BIs Resist Homophobia and Countering the
Myths: Lesbians write about the Men in their Lives. She has an honours BA
in English Literature from Queen's University and a Masters in Education
from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She lives in Toronto
with her partner and their two children.


TUESDAY APRIL 20

Eytan Millstone (aka Eytan Crouton)*Discovery Night Winner*
Eytan Millstone is a member of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Troupe called
"The Boom" and performs in a monthly show at The Supermarket in Kensington
Market. In 2004 he was runner up in the Toronto Star Short Story Contest
and published in a Sunday Star over the summer. Currently he is performing
spoken word and hip hop in various venues around Toronto under the name
"Eytan Crouton 1st Disciple". You can find Eytan Crouton on Youtube to
listen to his songs and to see some live performances. Or you can join his
facebook group and check out his Sketch Troupe

Jennifer Marston *Discovery Night Winner*
Jennifer Marston is a Toronto-based freelance writer and recovering lawyer
who dabbles in poetry and creative non-fiction. She's currently interning
at The Walrus magazine and was one of the first two Taddle Creek protégés
in 2009. Jennifer is obsessed with all things Toronto and is on the
executive of The Scream Literary Festival. Her special talents include
spotting dangling participles and making beautiful and useful things from
garbage.

Relevant
Relevant is a 22 year old actor/ spoken word artist with a WHOLE lot to
say... Born in D'jibouti Africa and moved to Canada as a kid, he uses
aspects of African life, aswell as Western living in his poetry, hopefully
in a way that everyone can relate. He has featured at poetry slams across
Canada and some parts of the United States, aswell as performed at schools
and has read his unique style of poetry on canadian radio. His main
mission is to get you to think... Then MELT YOUR BRAIN with sheer
awesomeness!!!


TUESDAY APRIL 27

Ian Burgham
Ian Burgham is an associate of the League of Canadian Poets. Though raised
in Canada, he was born in New Zealand and later in life taught school
there. He lived in Scotland for a number of years and worked in the
publishing industry as both an editor for Canongate Publishing and as
Publisher of Macdonald Publishers. His first degree was attained from
Queen's University at Kingston. Later, he attended the University of
Edinburgh where he studied the work and poetic theory of William Blake. In
2004 he won the Queen's University Well-Versed Poetry Award. He has three
collections of poetry. A chapbook, A Confession of Birds, was published in
the UK in 2003, and The Stone Skippers, published in 2007. Nominated for
the 2008 ReLit Award for poetry, The Stone Skippers was published in
Canada (Tightrope Books), New Zealand, Australia and the UK. His latest
collection, The Grammar of Distance, is to be published in April, 2010.
Burgham's work has been published in many Canadian literary journals
including Queen's Quarterly, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, the Literary
Review of Canada, Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2), dANDelion, Harpweaver,
Precipice, Jones Avenue, Ascent Aspirations and Poetry'z Own.

Sharon Harris
Sharon Harris has lived in Toronto since 1992 but grew up in Sarnia,
Ontario, with brief stays in Burlington and Bowling Green, Ohio. She loves
TO: her first book, Avatar (The Mercury Press) was published here; she was
Books Editor at Torontoist.com; her photography exhibition, I Love You
Toronto, was a love note in graffiti to the city. Her work has appeared in
magazines and newspapers across Canada (Geist, The Globe & Mail, The
National Post, EYE WEEKLY, full list:
http://iloveyougalleries.com/publications.htm) and on television and
radio. She blogs at http://theiloveyoublog.com and curates
http://iloveyougraffiti.com.

James Dewar
James Dewar is a poet, publisher (Piquant Press) and editor, creative
writing teacher and the producer/host of one of Toronto's most popular
poetry shows, Hot-Sauced Words (www.hotsaucedwords.ca). His poetry and
short fiction have been published in a variety of anthologies and
magazines. His most recent book of poetry, The Garden in the Machine, was
published by Hidden Brook Press in 2007. His first chapbook, Guys in
Garages (2005), delved into areas of the male psyche rarely tackled in
poetry. He will be giving the end of National Poetry month an energetic
send-off by launching and reading from his follow-up volume, Guys on the
Surface, at The Art Bar this evening.


Plus 10 people on the open mic every evening!



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- The Art Bar Team


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