The Grey Borders Reading Series and Niagara Artists' Centre have teamed up again to bring you another stellar night of poetry in performance featuring...
Penn Kemp
Stan Rogal
Andy Weaver
Erin Knight
and this time we're adding a live video component by
Marinko Jareb
Location: Niagara Artists Centre (354 St. Paul Street)
Time: 7pm
This event is part of the Niagara Literary Arts Festival.
***PLEASE NOTE WE HAVE CHANGED VENUES. THIS EVENT IS NO LONGER BEING HELD AT CENTENNIAL PARK***
Bios:
Marinko Jareb:
Marinko is a multidisciplinary artist living in St.Catharines and he is best known for his work as a street artist, DJ & VJ, first embracing and nurturing his creativity through involvement with the Toronto rave and warhouse loft party scene in the early 90's. Marinko is a member of NAC, CRAM International, and runs The Disco Gallery. His work has been published by Mono Records, Helsinki, Finland and in "Toronto Graffiti" (Farkas, 2011)
Erin Knight:
Erin Knight's first book of poetry, The Sweet Fuels (Goose Lane Editions, 2007), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her second collection is forthcoming from Anansi in 2012. She works as contributing editor for the literary publicity sites Open Book: Toronto and Open Book: Ontario. Erin lives in St. Catharines.
Andy Weaver:
Andy Weaver’s first book of poetry, Were the bees (NeWest Press, 2005), was shortlisted for Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. His second book, Gangson, was published by NeWest in 2011. Weaver teaches contemporarypoetry and poetics at York University.
Stan Rogal:
Stan Rogal was born in Vancouver and has lived in Toronto for the past 20 some odd years. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe. He is the author of 16 books including 3 novels, 3 story and 10 poetry collections (the latest being a Selected Works, "Dance, Monster" from Insomniac Press). A fourth novel, "Bloodline", will be published in the Fall 2011, by Insomniac Press. He is also a playwright with several productions to his credit in various venues across Canada. To pay the rent he works for the University of Toronto, Standardized Patient Program.
Penn Kemp:
London Ontario activist poet, performer and playwright Penn Kemp has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as Canadas first poetry CD-ROM and award-winning videopoems. As Londons inaugural Poet Laureate, she initiated Poetry in Motion, http://www.heartlondon.ca/, and National Haiku Competition,www.homecounty.ca. As Westerns Canada Council Writer-in-Residence (2009-10), her project was the DVD, Luminous Entrance: a Sound Opera for Climate Change Action. Since her first book was published by Coach House Press in 1972, she has pushed textual and aural boundaries, often in participatory performance work. Her "Sound Operas" are poetic narratives weaving sound, imagery and music in counterpoint. Working across a variety of cultural practices to engage her audience, she hosts an eclectic literary show, Gathering Voices, archived on CHRWradio. Having performed in festivals around the world, most recently in Britain, Brazil and India, Penn has returned to live in London, where she edits poetry for Pendas Productions, the small publishing company she and husband Gavin Stairs run. Penn has been heralded by the Writers Union as a one woman literary industry and by the League of Canadian Poets as one of ten foremothers of Canadian Poetry. For updates, see www.mytown.ca/pennletters, http://www.poetrymap.ca/profile.php?PoetID=42.
The Grey Borders Reading Series recognizes the financial support of the Canada Council of the Arts.
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