Thanks to everybody who came out and supported The Great Canadian Beaver
Ball and the Dub Revolushun! The event was a great success by all
accounts -- watch for the upcoming special issue of PRECIPICe devoted to
the event, with poetry by d'bi.young, Lillian Allen, Chet Singh, an
essay by Phanuel Antwi, photos, and an interview with Lillian Allen!
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Grey Borders Reading Series #21.... is proud to present
Oana Avasilichioaei
Jacqueline Larson
Friday 3 April 2009 7:30 pm
No Cover
Cask 22
176 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines
905-688-1118
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Please join us for this special event -- the last Grey Borders event of
the season, and the first at Cask 22, North America's only real wine bar.
greyborders.blogspot.com
Bios:
Jacqueline Larson was born in and formed by Alberta. She has a master's
degree (English) from Simon Fraser University where she also worked as
the managing editor of West Coast Line for 5 years. Her work has been
published in a number of journals and shortlisted for the National
Magazine award and Hart House Review poetry prize. Her first book, Salt
Physic, was published in November by Pedlar Press. She makes her home in
Toronto.
Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet and translator who transformed the
landscape of Vancouver’s Hastings Park into an acclaimed book of poems,
feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008). She has translated Nichita
Stanescu from Romanian, published as Occupational Sickness
(BuschekBooks, 2006), Louise Cotnoir and Geneviève Desrosiers from
French, created visual textworks for galleries in Montreal and
Vancouver, and has performed her work in Canada, USA, Mexico and Europe.
Her first book, Abandon (W&W, 2005) has been translated into Spanish as
Abandono and will soon appear in Mexico City. A collaborative work with
Erín Moure, involving authorial and translational impossibilities will
appear as Expeditions of a Chimæra fall 2009 (BookThug).
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