[Artbar] JUNE 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 JUNE  1

Heather Spears
Heather Spears, Vancouver-born writer and artist, has lived in Denmark
since 1962. She has published 14 collections of poetry, five novels, and 3
books of drawings. She has taught drawing all her life; The Creative Eye
(Arcturus, September 2007) is the first of a series of books on her
method. She has won the Pat Lowther Award three times, and The Governor
General's Award for Poetry. Her newest collection is I can still draw
(2008) and was short listed for the Lowther Award. She specializes in
drawing stilllborn and premature infants, and has exhibited widely in
Europe and America.

Ewan Whyte
Ewan Whyte is a writer and translator. He has written reviews for the
Globe and Mail, Books in Canada and the Literary Review of Canada. His
poetry, short stories, and translations have been published in literary
journals and magazines and he has read his translations of Catullus on
public radio in the U.S. His translation of the poetry of Catullus was
published in 2005. He has recently completed a book of poetry and
translation of the Odes of Horace. He lives in Toronto.

John Barger
John Wall Barger's first book of poems, Pain-proof Men, was published with
Palimpsest Press in fall 2009. He is presently working on translating a
book of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poems into English.


TUESDAY JUNE  8

Kelly Riess
Kelly-Anne Riess is a poet based in Regina.  She is the author of the
poetry collection To End a Conversation, which has been featured on CBC
Radio and on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.  Her work has
been published in literary journals across Canada, and, most recently, she
was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award, a
YWCA Young Woman of Distinction Award and a Regina Mayor’s Art Award. 
Riess also works as a freelance journalist, having written for many
newspapers and magazines, including the Globe and Mail.  She has travelled
across North America, working on documentaries that have aired worldwide
on networks such as the A&E Biography Channel, History Television and CBC.
 Riess was the lead writer on the bestselling Saskatchewan Book of
Everything.

Ellen S. Jaffe
Ellen S. Jaffe grew up in New York City, moved to Canada in 1979, and has
lived in Hamilton  since 2000. Her first poetry collection, Water
Children, received the award for best poetry book of the year from Arts
Hamilton in 2003.  A selection of poems from that book plus some new ones
were translated into Finnish and published in Helsinki in 2005, under the
title Birth Songs/Syntymalauluja. Her other books include Writing Your
Way: Creating a Personal Journal, which also received an award from Arts
Hamilton, and Feast of Lights, a young adult novel, winner of a Moonbeam
Award for multi-cultural fiction. Her work has appeared in CV2, The
Capilano Review, Fireweed, Kairos, the collection Crossing Lines: poets
who came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era, and other journals and
anthologies. She has also written plays and worked in theatre, and is a
member of Poets for Peace.  Ellen and Lil Blume co-organized Jewish
Literary Festivals in Hamilton in 2002 and 2009; for this year’s event,
they published an anthology, From Sinai to the Shtetl and Beyond: Where Is
Home for the Jewish Writer? Ellen works with “Learning Through the Arts”
and has also received several “Artist in Education” grants from the
Ontario Arts Council. She is currently working on a second poetry
collection and another young adult.

Gregory Betts
Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, critic, and teacher. His previous books
include If Language (BookThug 2005) and The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar
Press 2009). He lives in St. Catharines where he teaches at Brock
University.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/betts


TUESDAY JUNE  15

George Sipos
George Sipos lives on Salt Spring Island, where he is Executive Director
of ArtSpring, a visual and performing arts centre. Prior to moving to BC’s
Gulf Islands in 2006 he was a bookseller, symphony manager and college
teacher in Prince George. He grew up in Southern Ontario after arriving in
Canada from Budapest as a refugee in 1957. He has been a writer for much
of his life and started publishing poetry after attending the Banff
Writing Studio in 2001. His first book, Anything But the Moon, was
published by Goose Lane in 2005 and was short listed for the Dorothy
Livesay Poetry Prize in the 2006 BC Book Awards. He is married and has two
adult daughters.

Babar Khan
Babar Khan is a poet, fashion designer and Surr-absurdist Neo-Renaissancer
who has grown up on 3 continents and has published in The Spice Monitor,
Contemporary Verse 2, Journal de Pataphysie Post-Mortem and upcoming in
Rampike. He is the winner of the 2006 Prix de poesie de la Cite
Internationale Universitaire de Paris, and has read at The Idler, the
Bovine Sex Club for Nuit Blanche 2008 and the Caffe Vivaldi in Greenwich
Village, NYC.
He is currently doing work on possible ontological links between biscuits
and the Andromeda Galaxy.

Norm Cristofoli
Norman Cristofoli is a poet and spoken word performer and publisher of the
Labour of Love literary magazine, and has recently published a six-volume
set of his own poetry, prose and short stories. He is also the co-founder
of the Coffeehouse website for independent artists.  However, if all the
world is a stage, then Norman usually prefers to stay in the tattered old
balcony seats, hiding in the shadows, away from the spotlight.  He
believes that too much empahsis is placed upon the artist, whereas the
only thing that truly matters is the art itself.  Bios should be buried
with the artist . . . . let the art live on.



TUESDAY JUNE   22

keith garebian
Keith Garebian’s fourth book of poems, Children of Ararat, will be
published in April 2010 by Frontenac House. He was recently the winner of
the Canadian Authors’ Association (Niagara Branch) Poetry Prize, and had
one of his Ararat poems selected Poem of the Month by the Parliamentary
Poet. He lives in Mississauga.

Steve McOrmond
Steve McOrmond’s first collection, Lean Days (2004), was shortlisted for
the Gerald Lampert Award. His second, Primer on the Hereafter (2006), was
awarded the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Originally from Prince Edward Island,
he now lives in Toronto.  The Good News About Armageddon is his third
collection.

Andy Weaver
Andy Weaver's first book of poems, 'were the bees' (NeWest Press, 2005),
was shortlisted for an Alberta Book Award. NeWest will publish his second
book, _gangson_, in 2011. Weaver teaches poetry and poetics at York
University.


TUESDAY JUNE  29

Emily Pohl-Weary
Emily Pohl-Weary's books include the young adult mystery Strange Times at
Western High and the Hugo Award-winning memoirs of science fiction writer
Judith Merril, Better to Have Loved (co-authored by Merril). She wrote a
four-issue girl pirate comic (illustrated by Willow Dawson) and edited the
female superhero anthology Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers
and Freaks. Pohl-Weary published literary conga line Kiss Machine for more
than eight years. More recently, she founded the Parkdale Street Writers
for street-involved youth in the neighbourhood where she grew up. She also
works with men in transition from jail and homelessness through Native
Men's Residence Sagatay ("a new beginning").


David Donnell
I have published ten books of poetry, four story collections, two
children's books, and a play. My last poetry collection, The Broken World,
was published by Guernica Editions in 2005. My most recent story
collection is When Does a Kiss Become a Bite? (Ekstasis Editions,
2009).Besides Toronto, I have lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New Orleans,
and Seattle. In 1990 I was awarded the F.G. Bressani Prize for poetry. A
story collection of mine was translated into French and published last
year. I published my first book, one that I edited, with Ryerson Press.


Rahul Gupta (aka That Brown Bastard)
That Brown Bastard! is a semi-professional poet, (in other words, broke).
He has appeared in various reading series, poetry slams, high schools
across the GTA, Montreal, Chicago, and once Xanadu. He is the token brown
guy in the Last Call Poets support group/poetry troupe, co-founder of
seminal spoken word oddities The StrapOns and likely to finish all your
scotch.



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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