The Next Slam...

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010, Strega Cafe (19 King Street, St. Catharines)
7:00 - 9:00pm

The upcoming installment of our monthly contest has been certified organic by In The Soil : Niagara's Homegrown Arts Festival, running April 15th through 24th. Check out their website for details on shows and events. It's sure to be an amazing ten days for arts and culture!

For more information about In The Soil check out event details here.

Futureale

My article "The Up and Coming Literary Niagara" has been featured in the latest issue of Futureale magazine.

You can check it out here.

The official poster for the launch of

'lapse'

Poster Cred to Demetra Peppas

lapse; an anthology of creative writing by BrockU students

The Brock University Creative Writers' Club is proud to present...

lapse;

an anthology of creative writing

The BUCWC's is proud present 'lapse.' Brock's annual anthology of poetry and short fiction which features some of Brock's most talented writers.

The launch party will be on April 13 at 7 pm. Where you ask? At Cask 22 (176 St. Paul Street). Cask 22 is a nice little wine bar in the downtown. We had a successful launch there last year, and hope to do it again.

Bring your friends, lovers and family for a great evening.

The book will be on sale at this event for $10 a copy.

If you have been featured in this year's anthology we would love for you to read the poems or the short fiction piece you have in the anthology. Email me back confirming that you are willing to read. The more writers we can showcase the better.

I guarantee this to be an excellent night.

Please spread the word. Here is the link to facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=110742355620511&ref=ts

(Word on the Street: As a non-bucwc event there may or may not be some sort of gathering at the Merchant Ale House after the event)

Here are a few videos from Christian Bök's reading:

Grey Borders - Christian Bök and CCMC

Last night, CCMC and Christian Bök performed at the Grey Borders Reading Series in St. Catharines, Ontario. It was a pleasure and privilege to have such excellent performers come to the city.

CCMC

CCMC

CCMC

Christian Bök

Christian Bök

Grey Borders Reading Series #23...

Grey Borders Reading Series #23...

is proud to present

Christian Bök

CCMC – featuring Paul Dutton, Michael Snow, and John Oswald

screenings of Paul-Émile Borduas (1962) and Artist in Montreal (1954)

and (as if that weren’t enough to blow the roof off) the launch of a new, double issue of

PRECIPICe, Niagara’s literary magazine.

Thursday 1 April 2009 7:00 pm

No Cover, Licensed

The Niagara Artists’ Centre

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

905.641.0331

Thanks to the Humanities Research Institute of Brock University for their generous support.

Please join us for this very special event. How to describe this event? Three ways: 1) it is going to be a great evening of performances featuring two acts that definite the cutting edge in Canadian linguistic and sonic acrobatics. 2) This evening we will be celebrating the launch of the new double issue of PRECIPICe, which is without doubt our best issue to date. Ever. And 3) This event is part of a series of events hitting St. Catharines in tribute to Françoise Sullivan of the Montréal Automatists. Our event features artists working in a field first ploughed in this country by the Automatists. See the attached posters for all the events. Do you really need more reasons to join in the fun?

These bios are not meant to be authoritative, but are intended to whet your interest that you might find out the truth behind these mere words. Go out and buy some books! Buy some CDs! Search the internet and let Google mislead you in all directions! Start here:

CCMC comprises Michael Snow (piano, synthesizer), John Oswald (alto sax), and Paul Dutton (mouth and mouth harp). The band has been cited as Canada's premier non-idiomatic improvisational ensemble, with tours to various parts of the country, to the U.S., and several European countries. See http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000640 for more.

Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a ’pataphysical encyclopaedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut, and ’Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern University Press, 2001). His book Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. Bök has created artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. His conceptual artwork has appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary.