The Buffalo Invasion: Grey Borders #18

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The Grey Borders Reading Series is proud to announce...


The Buffalo Invasion: Grey Borders #18


Please join us for a very special evening of literature:

Tuesday 28 October 2008, doors open at 7:30 pm


The Buffalo Invaders include:
Alessandro Porco
Lisa Forrest
Andrea Strudensky
and Geoffrey Hlibchuk.



Location: The Niagara Artists' Centre, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines
Time: Doors open at 7:30 pm, readings begin shortly thereafter
Cost: no cover, donations encouraged
Other details: This is a licensed event by the LCBO


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Full bios:
Alessandro Porco is a poet, critic, and scholar. His most recent collection of poetry is Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems (ECW Press, 2008). He is also the author of The Jill Kelly Poems (ECW Press, 2005). Currently, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Porco is completing a dissertation on the subject of hip-hop poetics. His monthly hip-hop column, “In Extremis,” is available at Maisonneuve Magazine Online (www.maisonneuve.org).

Originally from Montreal, Andrea Strudensky is currently living in Buffalo studying poetry.

Born in the small town of Cottonwood, MN, Lisa Forrest has made many stops along the way to her current home of Buffalo, NY. After a hitch in the Army studying Counter Intelligence and eight years as an Occupational Therapist, Lisa found she was much more interested in deciphering verse and rehabilitating her own sentences than anything else. She's currently a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY College at Buffalo and the founding member of the school's Rooftop Poetry Club. A 2007 Pushcart prize nominee, Lisa's poetry has appeared in a variety of local and national publications, including Artvoice, Buffalo News, eco-poetics, foursquare, Lake Affect, Not Just Air Literary eJournal, and WordWrights. Lisa's scholarly work has been published in American Libraries magazine and Urban Library Journal, and her essays have been featured on WBFO, Buffalo's local National Public Radio station. Lisa's first collection of poems, To the Eaves, is available now from BlazeVox Books.

Geoffrey Hlibchuk recently graduated from SUNY Buffalo where he studied poetics, and currently lives in Toronto, Canada. His work has appeared in PRICIPICe, Queen Street Quarterly, and Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry; and critical articles have recently been published in Studies in Canadian Literature, and Open Letter. His new collection of poems—Variations on Hölderlin—recently won the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and is forthcoming from Snare Books in Fall 2008.

Grey Borders #17 -- Wednesday at Strega

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The Grey Borders Reading Series is proud to announce the second event of
the Fall season...

Please join us for a very special evening of literature:

Grey Borders #17
Wednesday 15 October 2008, gather at 7:30 pm and the reading starts at 8:00pm

Readers include:
David McFadden
Jason Heroux
Alice Burdick

Location: Strega Cafe, 19 King Street, St. Catharines -- www.strega.ca
Cost: PWYC, donations for artists and PRECIPICe encouraged
Other details: Strega now has Bring Your Own Bottle ($5 corkage)!

Send an email to gregory.betts [at] brocku.ca to receive announcements
about upcoming readings.

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Full bios:
David W. McFadden has published over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Gypsy Guitar, nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1987 and The Art of Darkness, nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1984. He lives in Toronto.

Alice Burdick has been involved with the small press community in Canada since the early 1990's, when she was co-editor, with Victor Coleman, of The Eternal Network. This very small ongoing imprint produced chapbooks, including several of her own works, such as Signs Like This, Fun Venue, and Voice of Interpreter. Her work has been published by other small presses in Canada, including: Proper Tales Press (a Time, My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush); Letters Press (Covered); and BookThug (The Human About Us). It also has appeared in various magazines, such as Dig, What!magazine, subTerrain, fhole, This Magazine, and Who Torched Rancho Diablo?. From 1992-1995, Alice was assistant coordinator of the Toronto Small Press Fair. She has also done numerous readings over the years in many different venues, including the Ottawa International Writers Festival, The Scream in High Park in Toronto, and the Halifax Word on the Street.

In his debut collection, Jason Heroux describes the atmosphere of a world that is both realistic and bizarre. His simple, clear poems capture the strange and mysterious absurdity of everyday life. The world becomes a place where shadows are kept in jars, where a frightened spoon begs for its life, and a man falls in love with the contents of his briefcase. Paradoxically, it is also a place where everything feels oddly at home, with "clear-headed raindrops rushing full speed into this one and only world." A poet of keen observation and unusual imagery, Jason Heroux writes spare, haunting poems that exist in the intersection of reality and dreams.

Grey Borders #17 and #18 -- Upcoming!

Wednesday 15 October 2008: Grey Borders Readings Series #17 is proud to present David McFadden, Jason Heroux, and Alice Burdick. Gather at 7:30 pm and the reading begins at 8:00 pm at Strega Cafe, 19 King Street in St. Catharines. No cover. Licenced by the LCBO. Come join us for a very special literary evening of world class poetry and prose. www.greyborders.blogspot.com

Tuesday 28 October 2008: Grey Borders Reading Series #18 is proud to present The Buffalo Invasion: Alessandro Porco, Lisa Forrest, Andrea Strudensky, and Geoffrey Hlibchuk. Gather at 7:30 pm and the reading begins at 8:00 pm at The Niagara Artists' Centre, 354 St. Paul Street in St. Catharines. No cover. Licenced by the LCBO. Come join us for a very special literary evening of world class poetry and prose. www.greyborders.blogspot.com



David W. McFadden has published over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Gypsy Guitar, nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1987 and The Art of Darkness, nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1984. He lives in Toronto.

Alice Burdick has been involved with the small press community in Canada since the early 1990's, when she was co-editor, with Victor Coleman, of The Eternal Network. This very small ongoing imprint produced chapbooks, including several of her own works, such as Signs Like This, Fun Venue, and Voice of Interpreter. Her work has been published by other small presses in Canada, including: Proper Tales Press (a Time, My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush); Letters Press (Covered); and BookThug (The Human About Us). It also has appeared in various magazines, such as Dig, What!magazine, subTerrain, fhole, This Magazine, and Who Torched Rancho Diablo?. From 1992-1995, Alice was assistant coordinator of the Toronto Small Press Fair. She has also done numerous readings over the years in many different venues, including the Ottawa International Writers Festival, The Scream in High Park in Toronto, and the Halifax Word on the Street.

In his debut collection, Jason Heroux describes the atmosphere of a world that is both realistic and bizarre. His simple, clear poems capture the strange and mysterious absurdity of everyday life. The world becomes a place where shadows are kept in jars, where a frightened spoon begs for its life, and a man falls in love with the contents of his briefcase. Paradoxically, it is also a place where everything feels oddly at home, with "clear-headed raindrops rushing full speed into this one and only world." A poet of keen observation and unusual imagery, Jason Heroux writes spare, haunting poems that exist in the intersection of reality and dreams.

Alessandro Porco is a poet, critic, and scholar. His most recent collection of poetry is Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems (ECW Press, 2008). He is also the author of The Jill Kelly Poems (ECW Press, 2005). Currently, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Porco is completing a dissertation on the subject of hip-hop poetics. His monthly hip-hop column, “In Extremis,” is available at Maisonneuve Magazine Online (www.maisonneuve.org).

Originally from Montreal, Andrea Strudensky is currently living in Buffalo studying poetry.

Born in the small town of Cottonwood, MN, Lisa Forrest has made many stops along the way to her current home of Buffalo, NY. After a hitch in the Army studying Counter Intelligence and eight years as an Occupational Therapist, Lisa found she was much more interested in deciphering verse and rehabilitating her own sentences than anything else. She's currently a Senior Assistant Librarian for SUNY College at Buffalo and the founding member of the school's Rooftop Poetry Club. A 2007 Pushcart prize nominee, Lisa's poetry has appeared in a variety of local and national publications, including Artvoice, Buffalo News, eco-poetics, foursquare, Lake Affect, Not Just Air Literary eJournal, and WordWrights. Lisa's scholarly work has been published in American Libraries magazine and Urban Library Journal, and her essays have been featured on WBFO, Buffalo's local National Public Radio station. Lisa's first collection of poems, To the Eaves, is available now from BlazeVox Books.

Geoffrey Hlibchuk recently graduated from SUNY Buffalo where he studied poetics, and currently lives in Toronto, Canada. His work has appeared in PRICIPICe, Queen Street Quarterly, and Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry; and critical articles have recently been published in Studies in Canadian Literature, and Open Letter. His new collection of poems—Variations on Hölderlin—recently won the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and is forthcoming from Snare Books in Fall 2008.