[Artbar] March 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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Please visit http://theartbar.wordpress.com for photos & audio clips from
Art Bar readings. Listen to poetry while you wash the dishes!

The back room of Clinton's is now 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 MARCH 2

Asa Boxer
Asa Boxer is a poet, literary critic and teacher. His work won first prize
in the 2004 CBC / enRoute poetry competition. And his debut book, The
Mechanical Bird, won the Canadian Authors Association Book Prize. Boxer's
work has been anthologized in several publications, including The New
Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and the Oxford-Poetry Broadside
Series. His poems, articles and reviews have appeared in Poetry London,
Arc, Books in Canada, Maisonneuve, and Canadian Notes & Queries (CNQ).

A. F. Moritz
A. F. Moritz's book of poems,The Sentinel, was published by House of
Anansi Press in April 2008 and was a finalist for the 2008 Governor
General's Award. Night Street Repairs (House of Anansi Press, 2004) won
the 2005 ReLit Award for poetry, and Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Brick
Books, 1999 was a finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award in
literature. His poetry has received other awards including the Guggenheim
Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Beth Hokin
Prize of Poetry magazine. His poems have appeared in four editions of the
annual Best American Poetry series and in Harold Bloom's 1998 Best of the
Best American Poetry, as well as in the the first edition of the Best
Canadian Poetry in English annual anthology.

Adrienne Gruber
Adrienne Gruber publishes regularly in Canadian literary magazines and has
been short-listed for ARC's Poem of the Year contest, Descant's Winston
Collins Best Canadian Poem contest and the CBC Literary Awards. She has an
MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and her first poetry manuscript This Is
The Nightmare was published with Thistledown Press in September 2008.
Besides working on her writing projects, Adrienne is a belly dancer and
scuba diver and is currently the Writer-in-Residence for Notre Dame School
through Descant Magazine's S.W.A.T. program (Students, Writers and
Teachers). Adrienne lives in Toronto.


TUESDAY MARCH 9

Maureen Hynes
Maureen Hynes' first poetry book, Rough Skin, received the League of
Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Award in 1995. Her second book of poetry,
Harm's Way, came out from Brick Books in 2001, and she has a new
manuscript, Uncovered. In spring 2007, she won second prize in the Petra
Kenney Poetry Award competition in London, England, and a set of her poems
was shortlisted for the 2008 CBC Literary Awards. Maureen is poetry editor
for Our Times magazine.

Brian Day
Brian Day is the author of three books of poetry, including the recently
published Conjuring Jesus. His poems have appeared in the anthologies
Seminal, Bent on Writing, and ReCreations, as well as in journals
including Descant and The Malahat Review. He teaches in Toronto.

Yogi
Yogi writes for truth, justice and the Homo Sapien way; really, he just
writes in the name of expression. Yogi (Jogindra Sonbass Siewrattan) came
from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to now make
Mississauga, Ontario his home. He was a member of the Toronto Poetry Slam
2008 team, a slam champion and feature performer at venues throughout the
Greater Toronto Area. He is the author of a book of poems and stories,
titled "Telling Moments." Yogi is also a graphic artist who has provided
custom designs and logos for many of Toronto's regional poetry events and
other organizations.


TUESDAY MARCH 16

Heather Cadsby
Heather Cadsby was born in Belleville, Ontario and currently lives in
Toronto. She is the author of four books of poetry. A Tantrum of Synonyms
(Wolsak and Wynn) was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. Recently her
poetry has appeared in such journals as Windsor Review, The Fiddlehead,
CV2 and The New Quarterly and in the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry in
English, 2008 (Tightrope Books. Her most recent book is titled, Could be,
and will be published by Brick Books in fall 2009.

Jill Battson
Jill Battson is an internationally published poet and poetry activist. She
was responsible for creating and running the successful poetry reading
series 'The Poets' Refuge' and has initiated and produced many poetry
events including 'The Poetry Express' - a BYOV at Toronto's Fringe
Festival; 'Liminal Sisters' - a language poetry event; 'The Festival of
the Spoken Word' - a five day spoken word festival; Fightin' Words - poets
in a boxing ring; 'The Poetburo Slams' and the very successful 'Word Up' -
a series of interstitial poetry spots airing on MuchMusic and Bravo! which
spawned a CD with Virgin Records and an anthology with Key Porter. She was
the poetry editor for Insomniac Press from 1999 to 2001. Jill has been
widely published in literary journals and anthologies in North America and
the UK. Her first book 'Hard Candy' was received to great acclaim and
nominated for the 'Gerald Lampert Award'. She has written several plays
and solo works, including 'How I learned to live with obsession' as well
as 'Ecce Homo' and 'Hard Candy' -enhanced monologues for dance and voice.
She has written the libretti for two short operas 'Netsuke' and 'Ashlike
on the Cradle of the Wind' produced by Tapestry New Opera Works, and
produced an electro acoustic sound art project, LinguaElastic, as part of
the Canadian Music Centre's 'New Music in New Places' series. Jill's
latest book of poems is 'Ashes are Bone and Dust'.

Matthew Dryden
Matthew Dryden is writer, blogger, and spoken word poet who lives in
Guelph, Ontario. As one of Guelph's most prominent poets, Matthew has
performed at every Guelph Poetry Slam and shared the stage with the Guelph
Spoken Word team at the 2009 Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
Matthew's performances are sweet and brutally honest. He is often pegged
as a surreal love poet, a sweet boy, and a storyteller. He just finished a
chapbook entitled, "i know only that it is true and sweet and sad".


TUESDAY MARCH 23

Tom Wayman
Since 1973, more than 15 collections of Tom Wayman's poems have been
published in Canada and the U.S. His 2002 title, My Father's Cup, was
shortlisted for the Governor-General's Literary Award; his latest
collection is High Speed Through Shoaling Water (2007). He has edited
several poetry anthologies, including The Dominion of Love: An Anthology
of Canadian Love Poems (2001). His critical books include A Country Not
Considered: Canada, Culture, Work (1993) and Songs Without Price: The
Music of Poetry in a Discordant World (2008). Wayman teaches at the
University of Calgary. When not away working, he is the Squire of
"Appledore," his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern B.C.

Lara Bozabalian
Lara Bozabalian's poetry and prose have been published in journals,
magazines and newspapers, as well as in two literary anthologies. Her
first full length collection, The Cartographer's Skin, will be published
by Piquant Press in February 2010. She has featured at the Art Bar,
Ryerson University, the Luminato Festival and the Words Aloud Festival.
She represented Toronto at this years American National Poetry Slam, the
Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and also competed at the 2008 Individual
World Poetry Slam, and at the 2009 Women of the World Slam. As Head of
English at a public high school, Lara runs a spoken word festival for high
school students and is a founding member of the Toronto Poetry Project.

David Day
David Day is a poet and author who has published 40 books of poetry,
ecology, history, fantasy, mythology and fiction. He has lived variously
in England, Greece, Spain and his native Canada. Day has been published in
magazines and newspapers worldwide. His books His books have won numerous
literary awards and been selected as "Books of the Year" by Time Magazine,
New Scientist, Parents Magazine and the Observer. David Day's books - for
both adults and children - have sold over 4 million copies and have been
translated into twenty languages.


TUESDAY MARCH 30

John Toone
John Toone writes poetry and picture books. He is interested in the ways
nature invades the urban landscape. Several of his poems have been
published in national poetry magazines including dANDelion, and Prairie
Fire. Most recently he has published his first full collection of poetry,
>From Out of Nowhere with Turnstone Press, as well as two children's
picture books and a graphic novel in collaboration with artist G.M.B.
Chomichuk. John has lived in Alaska and traveled throughout Northern
Canada. He now raises two young children in the historic neighbourhood of
Fort Rouge, Winnipeg.

Sandy Pool
Sandy Pool is a writer and classically trained theatre artist wholives in
Toronto. Sandy holds a degree in Theatre and English from the University
of Toronto, as well as a Master's of Fine Arts degree In Creative Writing
from the University of Guelph. Her work has been published in many of the
top literary journals in Canada including The Antigonish Review,The
Capilano Review, Contemporary Verse 2, dandelion,The Fiddlehead, Grain and
Sub-terrain. She has been short-listed for the Matrix Lit Pop award and
has been recently supported by a Writer's Work In Progress grant from the
Ontario ArtsCouncil. Sandy also writes Opera librettos, and has been
comissioned by Tapestry New Opera Works. Currently, Sandy teaches at
Humber College, and is also working as a voice-over artist for productions
in Canada and the United States. Her fist book "Exploding Into Night" was
just released with Guernica Editions in December.


Plus 10 people on the open mic every evening!



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