Videos from the Cipher Series...

On November 12, friends in the BUCWC videotaped the night's performances. I've embedded two here. Be sure to check out the rest of the performances on the BUCWC tumblr here.

Cipher RS, November 12th - Young Stallions from BUCWCeXtra on Vimeo.

Phil and I as The Two Young Stallions.

Cipher RS, November 12th - Eric Schmaltz from BUCWCeXtra on Vimeo.

I myself as myself sideways.

Many thanks to the group for shooting these videos.

Some GBRS News

The Grey Borders Reading Series Presents...

Lia Pas

Sachiko Murakami

Domenico Capilongo

Mat Laporte

Date: November 25, 2010

Time:
8pm

Location:
Pan Cafe - 120 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines, Ontario

Facebook event, here.

Bios:
Lia Pas is a multidisciplinary creator-performer who has worked in the fields of music, writing, and theatre. Born and based in Saskatoon, Lia studied music at York University, Toronto (BFA 1995) and completed her MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts (October 2006) in Devon, UK. Lia has written poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and scripts. In addition to her volumes of poetry: Husk (JackPine Press, 2008, with artist Ed Pas, awarded second place in the limited editions category of the Alcuin Awards), what is this place we have come to (Thistledown Press, 2003) and vicissitudes (Underwhich Editions, 2001), her literary work has been broadcast on CBC Radio and widely published in literary periodicals. Lia’s current project-in-progress, splanchnologies, is an interdisciplinary performance and text piece exploring anatomy as image. She recently completed her videopoem, susurrations, as part of this project.

Sachiko Murakami's first collection of poetry, The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008), was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She has been a literary worker for numerous journals and organizations and is a past member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective. A second collection, Rebuild, is forthcoming with Talonbooks. She lives in Toronto where she cohosts the Pivot reading series.

Domenico Capilongo lives in Toronto, with his family. He teaches high school creative writing, alternative education and karate. He has had work published in several literary magazines including Descant, and Geist. He was short-listed for the 2009 gritLit poetry award and his first book of poetry, I thought elvis was Italian was published in the spring of 2008 with Wolsak and Wynn. His second book of jazz-inpired poetry, hold the note, was published this fall with Quattro Books.

Mat Laporte just released Demons a chapbook pubilshed by Ferno House. He is presently doing an independent study of chance poetics at York University. He lives in Toronto.

Words Radio - CFBU

CFBU has recently added a poetry show to their line up.

The gig is called Words Radio.

You can check out there tumblr here.

The manifesto:

We are Words-Radio, Brock's literature-based Radio Show! As our title would suggest, we broadcast everything related to literature, including poetry, plays, local and visiting authors, everything under the sun!We broadcast every friday 2-2:30 on 103.7 FM and online at cfbu.ca, and if you have any questions e-mail us at wordswordswords@hotmail.ca, or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/WordsRadio or facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_153610564682584&ap=1

Some good work here. Check out the broadcast and mp3s.

GBRS in the News

Sarah Ferguson, Staff Writer for the Niagara News covered the latest GBRS event.

photo credit to Sarah Ferguson

It was the

bookthug invasion of late october

featuring

Victor Coleman, Michael Boughn, Meredith Quartermain, Jay MillAr and Mark Goldstein

Check out the hype HERE.

Thanks to Sarah for doing such a lovely job.

the latest from the niagara

Here's wind of a new lit/arts journal that's based in the Niagara Region.

dead (g)end(er)

From the editor:

"dead (g)end(er) is an independently run and published art+lit journal.
We promote art that is progressive, and original, eclectic, and just plain awesome.

dead (g)end(er) accepts submissions from anyone regardless of sex, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or planet of origin.

dead (g)end(er) likes play with popular culture, just as much as we like the avante garde.
We like the experimental, just as much as we like the universal—preferably a mixture of the two is always encouraged!
As long as it’s cool, we will publish it! :)

We accept:
visual art - photography, doodles, sketches, paintings, sculptures, graphic design, etc.
literature - poetry, short-fiction, articles, essays, novel excerpts, screen-play excerpts, theatre excerpts, song lyrics, etc."

Check it:

http://www.deadgender.blogspot.com/

Cipher Reading

The Cipher Series continues on...

Myself and several others will be reading at

Fine Grind Cafe on James Street in St. Catharines, Ontario

on Friday November 12, 2010.

Starts at 7pm.

Rumor has it, this events the return of the Two Young Stallions.

This is a BUCWC event.

Come out and support the local literati.

The GBRS event...

The Grey Borders Reading Series Presents...

rob mclennan

Pearl Pirie

Gregory Betts

James Millhaven

Date:

November 10, 2010

Time: 7:30 pm

Location:

Niagara Artists Center

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

905.641.0331

Licensed, pay what you can

Pearl Pirie:

Pearl Pirie's forthcoming trade collection is been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010).www.beenshedbore.com. Her chapbooks include over my dead corpus (AngelHouse, 2010) and boathouse (above/ground, 2008). She blogs at pesbo, Humanyms, and a few other places. Poems have appeared thru dandelion, ditch, PRECIPICe, 1cent, Ottawater, unarmed, Peter F Yacht Club, Dusie and 17 Seconds, pooka press and gar. She writes in Ottawa and lives in her head (with outings for chocolate).

rob mclennan:

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections gifts (Talonbooks), a compact of words (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), wild horses (University of Alberta Press) and a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeense

conds), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaurevi

ew) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com.

Gregory Betts:

Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist, and teacher born in Vancouver, raised in Toronto, now living in St. Catharines, ON. He is the author of four books of poetry including If Language (BookThug 2005), Haikube (BookThug 2006), The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press 2009), and Psychic Geographies and Other Topics (Quattro Press 2010; also as ane-book) as well as several chapbooks and various bits of ephemera.

James Millhaven:

James Millhaven was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1987. His first chapbook, Edges, was released by Grey Borders Books in July 2010. He is currently working on his second chapbook and a one-act play. He would generally include a witty (or at least half-witty) remark at the end, but this was written at the last minute. Sorry.