As a complement to the University of Ottawa's 2008 Canadian Literature Symposium 'Re: Reading the Postmodern', The A B Series #9 features performances by Ottawa-area poets: Chris Turnbull, Sandra Ridley, Shane Rhodes, Monty Reid, Roland Prevost, rob mclennan, Marcus McCann, Nicholas Lea, John Lavery & from St. Catharines special guest, Gregory Betts.
Hosted by Max Middle
Doors open 7:30pm
Readings at 8pm
8 May 2008
The Mercury Lounge
56 ByWard Market
Ottawa
Admission $7 (free for those on low income)
(Afterwards, dance to the elemental soul sounds of Mercury Lounge DJs.)
Chris Turnbull in Kemptville, Ontario. Recentish writing (in some form) can be found in puddle, spire, ::stonestone::, How2, dANDelion, Undercurrents, and the anthology, Companions & Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry. Lately less than occasionally she publishes rout/e.
Sandra Ridley is a Saskatchewan-born poet who lives in Ottawa. In June 2008, her first chapbook, Lift, will be published with JackPine Press. A Fringe Reader at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and the Huntsville Festival of Arts, her work can also be found in Arc, CV2, Grain, Prairie Fire, and Taddle Creek.
Monty Reid's books include The Life of Ryley (Thistledown), Crawlspace (Anansi), The Alternate Guide (rdc books) and Sweetheart of Mine (BookThug). Widely published, he has been short-listed three times for the Governor-General's award. His second most recent book, Disappointment Island (Chaudiere), won the Lampman-Scott Award and was nominated for the City of Ottawa book award. His most recent book, The Luskville Reductions, has just been published by Brick Books He lives in Ottawa where he is Head of Exhibitions at the Museum of Nature.
Shane Rhodes' most recent book of poetry, The Bindery, was published by NeWest Press in Spring 2007. Winner of an Alberta Book Award and the Archibald Lampman Award, Shane's poetry is also featured in the anthologies New Canadian Poetry, Breathing Fire II, Decalogue, and Seminal.
Roland Prevost lives and works in Ottawa. His first chapbook, Metafizz (Bywords 2007), was launched at the Ottawa International Writer's Festival last fall. He was the recipient of the John Newlove Poetry Award for 2006 (judge: Erin Mouré). His poetry has appeared in Ottawater 3.0, Variations Art Zine, Bywords Quarterly Journal, and The Peter F. Yacht Club, among others. He's kept an allsorts lifelong journal, and loves to observe the night sky through his various telescopes.
rob mclennan is an Ottawa-based writer, editor and publisher. The author of seventeen trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in three countries, he is also the editor/publisher of above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), Poetics.ca (with Stephen Brockwell) and the online poetry pdf annual, ottawater (ottawater dot com). He has published poetry, fiction, reviews, essays and interviews in over two hundred publications in fourteen countries and three languages, and recently finished a year in Edmonton as the 2007-8 writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. He regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and notices on his blog (now five years old): robmclennan at blogspot dot com.
Marcus McCann is an editor and writer at Capital Xtra. Catch him in upcoming/recent issues of Matrix and dANDelion, or in one of his three chapbooks: So Long, Derrida (UESA, 2006) & Heteroskeptical (above/ground press, 2007) & Basement Tapes (coauthored-translated with Nicholas Lea and Andrew Faulkner, 2007).
Nicholas Lea is a poet originally from the fields of Moose Creek, Ontario. His first collection, Everything is Movies (chaudierebooks dot com), was published in 2007. He is ever-working on another. He lives in Ottawa.
John Lavery's is the author of Very Good Butter (ECW, 2000) and You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off (ECW, 2004). His stories have appeared in This Magazine, The Canadian Forum, The Ottawa Citizen, and The London Spectator and in the following anthologies: Coming Attractions (Oberon, 1999), The Journey Prize Anthology (McLelland & Stewart, 2000), Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers (Chaudiere Books, 2006). Since mid 2007, Lavery has been collaborating with Max Middle to produce performances as the Max Middle Sound Project. He lives in Gatineau, Quebec where he is busy writing his first novel.
Gregory Betts is the author of If Language and Haikube. He co-edits PRECIPICe magazine and curates the Grey Borders Reading Series. He lives in St. Catharines where he teaches Canadian and Avant-Garde literature.
A B Series #8: Guest curated & hosted by Sean Moreland
A B Series #8
featuring H. Masud Taj, Lindsay Foran and Jamie Bradley
Saturday, April 5, 2008 7:00pm - 8:30pm
University of Ottawa Room # 509 Arts Building
70 Laurier Ave East Ottawa, ON
The A B Series presents H. Masud Taj with University of Ottawa-affiliated poets Jamie Bradley and Lindsay Foran.Taj, who teaches in the Architecture department at Carleton University, is an internationally renowned performance poet. His work has been praised by figures as diverse as Edward Said, Albert Moritz, and Bruce Meyer. He has performed in Stanley Kubrick's residence in Hertfordshire, the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the Roman abbey at St. Alban's, and numerous universities in North America and India. His performances are recitations from heart, in sequence, as he returns to the ancient Urdu oral tradition on which he draws; yet his poems are marked also by imagistic precision, intellectual exploration and a sense of humor which render them strikingly contemporary. This will be a rare opportunity to witness Taj in performance, as his public recitations have become increasingly rare. Don't miss the opportunity!
Jamie Bradley lives and works in Ottawa, where he is completing a PhD focusing on American Modernist literature at the University of Ottawa. His work has appeared in the Bywords Quarterly Journal and bywords.ca, In/Words and Variations. He is ambiguous about cats, and appreciative of dark beer and bright women.
Lindsay Foran is currently completing her final semester as an undergrad at the University of Ottawa She has been published in Bywords.ca and the Bywords Quarterly Journal as well as the online journal Ydgrasil. She is also the associate editor of the University of Ottawa literary journal Ottawa Arts Review.
Sean Moreland was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario, which has led to his lifelong fascination for prisons and the wonderful porousness of limestone, and to his mistrust of the Tragically Hip. He is currently a part-time instructor and PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa. His poems have appeared in venues including Spire, Bywords, The Ottawa Arts Review, NoD Magazine, and the Peter F. Yacht Club. His poem “Pygmalion and Galatea” received the John Newlove memorial award for 2007.
28 March 2008
cash bar
Performances by John Akpata, Mosha Folger, Q the Romantic Revolutionary, and Festrell
A B Series #6: Ottawa Night in The A B Series
7:30pm
14 March 2008
Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery
Main Floor
110 Laurier Avenue West
Performances by:
Pearl Pirie is currently playing in many ponds, haiku, vispo and mechanically separated meat and fur poems. Her chapbook oath in the boathouse was published this month by above/ground press.
Amanda Earl's poetry is forthcoming in Rampike, The New Chief Tongue and Van Gogh's Ear. above/ground press published her second chapbook Eleanor in 2007. Her poetry has also been featured on Listenlight.net, Ditchpoetry.com and Unlikelystories.org and published by
LM Rochefort's poem "(W)hole" won the Honourable Mention for the 2007 Diana Brebner Prize and was recently published in Arc 59,
Janice Tokar's work appears in a chapbook featuring poems by members of the Pumping Irony Poetry Workshop. She has read at Tree, Sasquatch and the Muses reading series. One of her poems will be published by Bywords in their March on-line edition at bywords.ca.
Rhonda Douglas lives in
Jacqueline Lawrence is a diversity strategist by day. On Saturdays, she is one of the hosts/producers of CHUO 89.1 FM’s Black on Black. She is also the Program Director for 3 Dreads and A Baldhead’s Literary Series that has hosted readings with writers such as Colin Channer, Kwame Dawes, Lawrence Hill, and Lorna Goodison. In between these activities, she manages to follow her spirit to scribble poems. As a poet, Jacqueline received the Editor’s Choice Award from the National Library of Poetry for her submission to their
Sean Dowd has taught and played in
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