From artbar at list.artbar.org Tue Jan 10 10:45:57 2012 From: artbar at list.artbar.org (The Art Bar Poetry Series) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:45:57 -0500 Subject: [Artbar] IMPORTANT NOTES - Art Bar - January 2012 Message-ID: <19c095cc6fd7920f0d57309416538897.squirrel@sm.webmail.pair.com> [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ [ VENUE CHANGE ON JAN. 24 ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] ] The Art Bar Poetry Series takes place every Tuesday at 8 pm Free admission, but we pass the hat for donations. Click for info: http://www.artbar.org/ Art Bar Features **************************************************** TUESDAY JANUARY 10 VENUE: Pauper's Pub, upstairs, 539 Bloor Street West, right by Bathurst Subway Station. Brendan McLeod Brendan McLeod has been Vancouver's SLAM poetry Champion, the Canadian SLAM poetry champion, and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. As a novelist, he beat out over 500 original entries to win the 2006 International 3 Day Novel Contest for his book, "The Convictions of Leonard McKinley". He has performed all over the world, at over 200 poetry readings, and is a touring member of The Fugitives spoken word and music troupe. He has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Waterloo. Spencer Butt Spencer Butt is a performance poet from Toronto, Canada who specializes in blowing minds. Spencer has been featured at such events as The Toronto Poetry Slam, Wavelength Music Series, CanZine, Laugh Sabbath, Saskatoon's Tonight It's Poetry, The Vancouver Poetry Slam, Dementia 5, Mashed Poetics and The University of British Columbia's Poetry Slam. He was a regular performer on Sun TV's King Kaboom, was featured in the music video for "Mercy Line" by the band Modern Superstitions and has been published in anthologies such as The Future Hygienic and Strong Words volumes 1 and 2 (a reading series he later went on to curate). Please brace yourselves for an explosion of radness. Adam Sol Adam Sol is the author of three books of poetry, including Jeremiah, Ohio, a novel in poems which was shortlisted for Ontario's Trillium Award for Poetry; and Crowd of Sounds, which won the award in 2004. He teaches at Laurentian University's campus in Barrie, Ontario, and lives in Toronto. Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/342411595785081/ TUESDAY JANUARY 17 VENUE: Pauper's Pub, upstairs, 539 Bloor Street West, right by Bathurst Subway Station. 12th Annual Art Bar Discovery Night hosted by Nancy Bullis On Discovery Night, up to 20 poets present their own work and are judged by audience ballots. Open to anyone who has never featured at the Art Bar Poetry Series (at ANY of the many venues over the years). There are 3 rounds. RULES: 1) You must sign up yourself 2) Poets are free to work in any style 3) No props, costumes, musical instruments allowed 4) Each poet gets 3 minutes to present one poem 5) Audience members decide by ballot who continues to the next round Sign-up begins at 7:30pm SHARP. Competitors should bring 3 poems, no longer than 3 minutes each. Prize is a feature reading at the Art Bar in April 2010. Audience - please bring a pen or pencil... your vote counts! Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/224561110956120/ TUESDAY JANUARY 24 **** VENUE CHANGE - TONIGHT ONLY*** VENUE: Black Swan Tavern, upstairs, 154 Danforth Ave., just east of Broadview Subway Station. Chris D'Iorio Chris D'Iorio has degrees in Literary Studies & Semiotics and Law from the University of Toronto. He works for an accounting firm providing tax advice on equity-based compensation, and also serves on the board of directors for SKETCH working arts for Toronto?s homeless and street-involved youth. He is in the editorial collective for influencysalon.ca. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Filling Station and other journals, and he is a past winner of the Hart House Literary Contest. His first book of poetry, Without Blue, from Quattro Books, came out in October 2011. Matt Rader Matt Rader is the author of three collections of poetry, Miraculous Hours (Nightwood 2005), Living Things, (Nightwood 2008), and A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno (House of Anansi 2011). His poems and stories have appeared in publications across North America, Ireland, and Australia and have been nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, The Journey Prize, The National Magazine Awards, and the Pushcart Prize. He teaches literature and writing at North Island College in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. Terry Ann Carter Terry Ann Carter is the author of three collections of poetry: Waiting for Julia (third eye press, 1999); Transplanted (Borealis Press, 2006); A Crazy Man Thinks He's Ernest in Paris (Black Moss Press, 2010). As an international award winning haiku poet, Terry Ann has participated in the Basho Festival, Ueno, Japan, and festivities at the Tenri Cultural Center, NYC; her chapbook (The Monk's Fine Robes: Haiku from Cambodia) was published by Leaf Press in 2011. Lighting the Global Lantern: A Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms for Teens, published by Wintergreen Studios, was launched at the Haiku North America conference, 2011. Terry Ann won the Origami Crane Award from the Tree Reading Series, Ottawa, and has participated in Random Acts of Poetry for the past five years. She has given poetry and small book making workshops at La Roche Dhys, Burgundy, France; the Zen Festival, Montreal, Quebec; and the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. 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