[Artbar] JULY 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.


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The back room of Clinton's is open at 7 pm, 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 JULY 6

Colin Morton
Colin Morton was born in Toronto, grew up in Calgary and now lives in
Ottawa, where two of his books of poetry have won the Archibald Lampman
Award and one was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award in fiction. He
published two books with Seraphim Editions - Dance, Misery, 2003, and The
Cabbage of Paradise: The Merzbook and other poems, 2007. More recently he
has published The Local Cluster with U.S. publisher Pecan Grove Press
(2008) and, last fall, The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major with
BuschekBooks of Ottawa. The Hundred Cuts is a meditation on enduring
themes in our history.

Archna Sahni
Archna Sahni is a seeker and poet who arrived in Toronto in the early
1990s from India. After a recent long stay in India she re-located to
Toronto 2 years back. Her poetry has been published in journals such as
The Bombay Literary Review, The Post-Post Modern Review, Kavya Bharati,
New Quest, The Brown Critique, Poetry Chain, Manushi, Tibetan Review, and
Westerly. Her debut collection of poems titled First Fire was published
(June 2005) by Yeti Books, Kerala, India. She is looking for a publisher
for her second book of poems. She is the recipient of the first Agha
Shahid Ali Prize for poetry, and received Honorable Mention for E.J. Pratt
Medal and Poetry Prize (University of Toronto). Recently, her poems have
been published in South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Arts,
Literature and Culture of and for South Asian Diaspora (Vol. 1, No.1,
2009).

Beatriz Hausner
Beatriz Hausner's poetry is rooted in the legacy of international
surrealism, especially its Spanish American expression. Many of her
translations have focused on the writers of that literature, including
Cesar Moro and the poets of Mandragora, among others. Hausner has worked
tirelessly to promote international literature in Canada, through her own
translations, her advocacy work (she was President of the Literary
Translators' Association of Canada and is one the founders of the Banff
International Literary Translation Centre) and now as one of the
publishers of Quattro Books. Her work has been published in Spanish,
French and Portuguese translation. Sew Him Up is her latest poetry
collection. She works as a librarian in Toronto.


TUESDAY JULY 13

Open Stage Night
with Stephen Humphrey
The Art Bar Poetry series likes its open mic so much we devote an entire
night to it.
So July 13th we need all our open mic regulars, plus a few of their
friends since we have to fill three sets of open mic readings. The rules
are simple: one poem apiece. We drop the three-minute rule to keep open
mic night moving. Does that mean your one poem can be your 20-minute
hitch-hiking epic or your 60-minute heroic ode to Rob Ford? No it can't.
Bring one short, sweet, poem and make everybody love you.


TUESDAY JULY 20

Lishai
Lishai is a poet historian, weaving together storytelling, emotion and
truth seeking to reclaim her-story. She joined the word revolution in
early 2010, competing in her first poetry slam at the annual Women of the
World Toronto qualifier and ranked in second place. Since then, she has
made a name for herself in the slam circuit with her explosive poetry,
most recently representing Toronto in the Rustbelt Regional Slam in
Michigan and featuring in numerous fundraisers and conferences throughout
Ontario. Her poetry is a blend of philosophical inquiry and historical
insight, coupled with passionate delivery and a distant eco of a voice
long lost whispering..."I'm still here."

David Starkey
David Starkey is the poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California, and
director of the creative writing program at Santa Barbara City College.
Among his poetry collections are Starkey's Book of States (Boson Books,
2007), Adventures of the Minor Poet (Artamo Press, 2007), Ways of Being
Dead: New and Selected Poems (Artamo, 2006), David Starkey's Greatest Hits
(Pudding House, 2002) and Fear of Everything, winner of Palanquin PressÕs
Spring 2000 chapbook contest. In addition, over the past twenty years he
has published more than 400 poems in literary journals such as Alaska
Quarterly Review, American Scholar, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal,
Cincinnati Review, Greensboro Review, The Journal, Massachusetts Review,
Mid-American Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Southern Review,
Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review. He has also
written two textbooks: Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St.
MartinÕs, 2008) and Poetry Writing: Theme and Variations (McGraw-Hill,
1999). With Paul Willis, he co-edited In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to
Shakespeare (Iowa, 2005), and he is the editor of Living Blue in the Red
States (Nebraska, 2007). Keywords in Creative Writing, which he
co-authored with the late Wendy Bishop, was published in 2006 by Utah
State University Press.

Peter Harris
Peter might be a poet. He's a fairly mild-mannered academic with an MA in
Comparative Literature and a minor techie working on the WWW. However,
Jack, his dark half, his other side, his eternal ruination and the best
thing about him, has the devil's voice. His poems have been anthologized,
and published in several leading journals, as well as in two books If I
were a Lion (1994), and In Black Ink (2002). The songs are on the now rare
Songs from the Life and Times of Whisky Child.



TUESDAY JULY 27

Salimah Valiani
Born in Calgary, Canada, Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist, and
researcher of world historical political economy. Active in the
international anti-Apartheid movement during the1980s, she also worked in
Cape Town in 2004-2005, witnessing the ten year anniversary of the first
democratic elections in South Africa. Her experience as an advocate of
economic justice spans three continents – Africa, Asia and North America –
bringing a unique perspective to her poetry and other writing. Her first
collection of poetry, breathing for breadth, was published by TSAR
Publications in 2005. The second, Letter Out : Letter In was published in
2009 by Inanna Publications.



Plus 10 people on the open mic every evening!
Open Mic readers, please remember to share one poem, under three minutes
in length.



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