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.

Grey Borders Reading Series Presents...

After a successful start to the season

Grey Borders Reading Series is proud to present a night of (book)thuggery featuring...

Victor Coleman

Michael Boughn

Meredith Quartermain

Jay MillAr

Mark Goldstein

Date:

Thursday October 21, 2010

Time:

7pm

Location:

The Niagara Artists’ Centre

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

905.641.0331

Licensed, pay what you can

Link to the GBRS blog:

http://greyborders.blogspot.com

Link to the facebook event:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101061936626482&ref=mf

Author Bios:

Victor Coleman is the author of numerous books of poetry, starting with the 1964 publication of From Erik Satie’s Notes to the Music, throughCORRECTIONS (1985), LAPSED WASP (1994), and ICON TACT (2006). He was a founding editor of both Coach House Press (in 1965) and Coach House Books (in 1997) and has laboured as a film programmer at Queen’ University, the Executive Director of A Space, and co-director and programmer for The Music Gallery in Toronto. He was the editorial director for the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (www.ccca.ca) and currently toils as a semi-retired free-lance editor. His latest non-BookThug publication, from Shuffaloff/Eternal Network is How To Become A Good Dancer. Early in 2011 The University of California Press will release his (and Michael Boughn’s) edit of Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book.

Born and raised in Riverside, California, Michael Boughn moved to Canada in 1966 because of his opposition to the war against Viet Nam. In Vancouver he met and studied with Robin Blaser who introduced him to the work of William Blake, Charles Olson, H.D., Jack Spicer, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and other crucial writers. He spent nearly 10 years working in the Teamsters before returning to school to study with Robert Creeley and Jack Clarke in Buffalo, N.Y. where he received his PhD in 1986. Since 1993 he has lived in Toronto. He is the author of Iterations of the Diagonal, Dislocations in Crystal, Into the World of the Dead, One’s own Mind, and 22 Skidoo/SubTractions. With Victor Coleman, he edited Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book for the University of California Press. His detective novel, Business As Usual, is forthcoming.

Meredith Quartermain was born in Toronto but grew up elsewhere in Ontario and in rural British Columbia. At UBC she was intrigued by the poetry of Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. She also delved into Biology, Latin, Math, Philosophy and Linguistics. For a while she practiced law. She is the author of several books of poetry including Matter, Nightmarker (finalist for the Vancouver Book Award) and Vancouver Walking (winner of a BC Book Award). She runs Nomados Literary Publishers with husband Peter Quartermain.

Toronto writer Mark Goldstein has suffered no visible education. An avid small presser, he issues limited editions under the Beautiful Outlaw imprint. After Rilke, his first collection, was published in the summer of 2008. Tracelangage is his second book.

Jay MillAr is a Toronto poet, editor, publisher, teacher and virtual bookseller. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which are esp : accumulation sonnets (2009) and Other Poems (2010). He is also the author of several privately published editions, such as Lack Lyrics, which tied to win the 2008 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Millar is the shadowy figure behind BookThug, a publishing house dedicated to exploratory work by well-known and emerging North American writers, as well as Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, a virtual bookstore that specializes in the books that no one wants to buy. Currently Jay teaches creative writing and poetics at George Brown College and Toronto New School of Writing.

BUCWC POETRY EVENT

The

Brock University Creative Writers' Club

is

hosting

a

poetry reading

on

Thursday October 14, 2010

at

Fine Grind

on

James Street

in

Downtown St. Cats

at

7pm

.

.

.

see you there, bud.

The One Shot Reading Series

Photos from the first (and maybe the only) reading from the executive-like students from Brock University.

Phil Miletic; a president-like individual and first time emcee.

Lindsay Cahill; a local writer and eccentric.

Mr. Ed Edmonds.

One of the shorter ones we know... Helen Tran.

Phil Miletic

Jade Wallace, incognito.

Quick garb change.

Thanks to the door for letting in a cool breeze and adding a bit of character to each of these photos.

Poetry Event

A group of executive-like students

from

Brock University will be holding

a

Poetry Reading

at

Fine Grind Cafe

on

September 17, 2010

at

7 pm

featuring...

Phil Miletic

Jade Wallace

Helen Tran

Ed Edmonds

Robert Dimmers

Here is the facebook event page, here.

Stick around for the open mic that will follow the event

Grey Borders Reading Series News

There have been some major updates over at the Grey Borders blog.

There is a new interview with bill bissett here.

and now some event details...

Grey Borders 3.0 is proud to present...

bill bissett

Catherine Owen

Phil Hall

Terry Trowbridge

Date: Thursday September 23, 2010

Time: 7:00 pm

Location:

The Niagara Artists’ Centre

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

905.641.0331

No Cover, Licensed

Chapbook release tonight

James Milhaven, a local writer is releasing his new chapbook tonight at Strega Cafe.

Details are on the poster below

Come mingle with some local literati!