[Artbar] Correction to the Correction - Christian Bok tomorrow night!

[The Art Bar Poetry Series]

... don't even ask... please just note that we have three stellar features
for this Tuesday January 26th, and this is a MUST BE THERE evening of
poetry!!

Christian Bök
Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (Coach House
Press, 1994, a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert
Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001, a bestselling
work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin
Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial languages for two
television shows: Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter
Benchley's Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso
performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt
Schwitters. His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of
Rubik's cubes and Lego bricks have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery
in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök is currently
a Professor of English at the University of Calgary.


Weyman Chan
Weyman Chan, born and raised in Calgary, is the author of 2 books: Before
A Blue Sky Moon (winner of the 2002 Stephansson Poetry Award from the
Writers Guild of Alberta; and Noise From the Laundry (nominated for the
2008 Governor General's Award for Poetry. When he's not writing, he's busy
performing histological and electron microscopic tests in a windowless
basement of the local healthcare system. He is let out infrequently to
roam.

Sonja Greckol
Sonja Greckol's first book, Gravity and Flight, Has recently launched from
Inanna Press, April 15, 2009. Her work has appeared in Literary Review of
Canada, Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, CV2, Canadian WomenÕs
Studies, Fiddlehead and Matrix. She coordinates poetry for Women and
Environments International Magazine and served on the National Council of
the League of Canadian Poets. She has taught college and university,
studied order and disorder in jokes, done human rights and gender-based
research and consulting, and does local activism while she writes. Her
long poem, Emilie Explains Newton to Voltaire, was short-listed for the
CBC Poetry Prize in 2008. Her next poetry project, entitled, Skin of the
Day, uses newspaper headlines.