[Artbar] MAY 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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Art Bar readings. Listen to poetry while you make dinner!

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 MAY 4

Margaret Christakos
Margaret Christakos is the award-winning author of seven acclaimed poetry
collections and a novel, Charisma, shortlisted for the Trillium Book
Award. She teaches creative writing and runs 'Influency: A Toronto Poetry
Salon' at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her most
recent collection, What Stirs, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.

Roger Greenwald
Roger Greenwald grew up in New York City. He has won two CBC Literary
Awards, for poetry and travel literature, and many translation awards. His
poetry has appeared in such journals as The World, Poetry East, The
SpiritThat Moves Us, Pequod, Saturday Night, Prism International, The
Texas Observer, Leviathan Quarterly, and Pleiades. His books include
Connecting Flight (poems); Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of
Tarjei Vesaas, a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; and
North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, winner of the Lewis
Galantière Award (American Translators Association).

Mick Burrs
Steven Michael Berzensky (Mick Burrs), poet, playwright, illustrator,
editor, has published 840 poems and 30 poetry chapbooks, including his
latest, Under the Indelible. Among his seven books are a PeopleÕs Poetry
Award finalist, Dark Halo (1993); a Saskatchewan Poetry Book Award winner,
Variations on the Birth of Jacob (1997); a Saskatchewan Book of the Year
finalist, The Names Leave the Stones: Poems New & Selected (2001), plus
his fully illustrated Pages Torn From Trees (Lyricalmyrical, 2007). He has
written seven original short poetic plays for TorontoÕs Back Burner
Productions, including Doomsday Coughdrops and A Quasi-Scientific Treatise
on Copulation Amongst Fruit Flies. He co-edited with Allan Briesmaster
Crossing Lines (Seraphim Editions, 2008), a 240-page groundbreaking
anthology featuring many former Americans who have made poetic
contributions to Canadian Literature. Mick also founded the Annual Short
Grain Contest whilst editing Grain literary magazine.


TUESDAY MAY 11

Art Bardy Har Har
Comedy in Poetry Night with Valentino
Open Mic Readers - please bring your funniest poem! (ONE poem, under 3
minutes)


TUESDAY MAY 18

Colin Carberry
Colin Carberry was born in Canada, raised in Ireland, educated at the
University of Toronto, and now lives in Mexico. A poet and translator, his
work has appeared in prominent Canadian and international journals and
anthologies, among them, Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, Tattooed Land:
An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poetry in Translation (Sarajevo:
BuyBook, 2009), Loose Leaves (Ireland: Longford Arts Council, 2010),
Poetry Ireland Review, Line by Line: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and
Exile: The Literary Quarterly. His poetry has been translated into
Serbo-Croatian and Spanish. Exile Editions published his first book of
poetry, The Green Table (2003), and two volumes of his translations of
Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, Weekly Diary: Poems in Prose and Adam and Eve
(2004). His latest collection, Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna Publications,
2007), has been warmly reviewed in Canada and Ireland. Colin has read on
radio and at literary festivals, colleges and universities in Canada, the
United States, Mexico, Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Visit
www.colincarberry.com

Anna Swanson
Anna Swanson studied creative writing at the University of Victoria and
the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her poetry has appeared in PRISM
International, The Antigonish Review, The Best Canadian Poetry in English
2008, and numerous other literary journals. Her debut collection of
poetry, The Nights Also, is forthcoming from Tightrope Books, spring 2010.
She has paid the rent by planning festivals, selling books, serving
drinks, making maps, walking on stilts, bowling with teenagers, writing
press releases, and watching for forest fires. She now lives in Vancouver,
BC, and works as a children's librarian.

Blaise Moritz
Blaise Moritz is the author of Crown and Ribs published by Fitzhenry and
Whiteside in 2007. He has published widely in Canadian journals, including
The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review and The Antigonish Review. Recording of
his poems are available through his website, blaisemoritz.info. Also
active as a graphic artist, Blaise Moritz has published several handmade
chapbooks and contributed cover artwork to Canadian poetry collections.


TUESDAY MAY 25

Gillian Jerome
Gillian Jerome's first book of non-fiction Hope In Shadows, Stories and
Photographs from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (with Brad Cran) won the
2008 City of Vancouver Book Award and was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize.
Her first book of poems, Red Nest, was published by Nightwood Editions in
October, 2009. She teaches literature at UBC and poetry to kids at
inner-city schools in Vancouver and runs workshops with Geist magazine.

Chris Hutchinson
Chris Hutchinson was born in Montreal and has lived in Victoria, Edmonton,
Vancouver and most recently Phoenix, Arizona. He is now teaching at
Okanagan College in Kelowna, BC. His poems have been translated into
Chinese and have appeared in numerous Canadian and U.S. publications. He
is the author of the poetry collection, Unfamiliar Weather (Muses'
Company, 2005). Other People's Lives is his second poetry collection
(Brick Books, 2009).

Ann Shin
Ann Shin writes and makes films. Aside from these untitled poems from her
Speed of Now  manuscript, Ann is currently working on a novel about
several people lost in the worlds of dot-coms and TV. Coincidentally, her
newest documentary film project is about the social impact of the global
Internet industry. Her last documentary, Western Eyes, has won awards and
been screened in festivals in Europe, United States and Canada. Previous
publications include The Last Thing Standing, a book of poetry about the
notion of home, published by Mansfield Press, 2000.



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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