random acts of poetry

Mary Ann Mulhern - RAP 2010!

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Wanda Campbell - Hope Encourages Creativity

2010-10-19T09:52:00.001-07:00

Wanda Campbell's 2010 RAP report!!
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
~Anne Lamott

During the week of October 4-11, 2010, I participated in Random Acts of Poetry at Wolfville Junior High (Wolfville, Nova Scotia) with students selected by the resource staff, and at Highbury Education Centre (New Minas, Nova Scotia), an experiential high school for students seeking an alternative to the traditional school environment. I met one on one with 25 students, and read them each a poem from my poetry collection entitled Grace that I thought they might find meaningful. I found out their names and something about them so I could individualize each book that I signed before giving it to them. They seemed thrilled to have a poetry collection with their name and mine at the front. This I had hoped for, but three delightful things I didn’t expect also happened.

1) Several students read poems of their own to me with metaphors and music that were surprisingly mature, testimony to the power of words to make us brave in the face of great challenges.

2) Two students from Highbury Education Centre found me as I was packing up to leave. They thanked me on behalf of their fellow students and gave me a mug with their school’s letters on it, and now when I drink my dark hot coffee from their gift I think of those letters HEC as Hope Encourages Creativity (and vice versa as we know).

3) The Wolfville Junior High teacher who organized my visit sent me this note the next day:
One student in particular was SO pleased to meet you! I think she may have shared with you some of her poems. She has newly moved here and is in need of "something" for her. Thanks for what you do. :)

Wanda Campbell's 2010 RAP report!!

2010-10-19T09:50:00.001-07:00

Wanda Campbell's 2010 RAP report!!
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WandaCampbell

Hope Encourages Creativity !

RAP photos, Carmelo Militano, 2010, at an all boys learning skills class.

2010-10-18T13:42:00.001-07:00

RAP photos, Carmelo Militano, 2010, at an all boys learning skills class.
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RAP photos, Carmelo Militano, 2010, at an all boys learning skills class.

Random Acts of Poetry photo from Nellie Strowbridge!

2010-10-18T13:41:00.001-07:00

Random Acts of Poetry photo from Nellie Strowbridge!
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Random Acts of Poetry photo from Nellie Strowbridge!

Sheri-D Wilson’s Random Acts of Poetry - 2010!

2010-10-18T13:40:00.001-07:00

Sheri-D Wilson’s Random Acts of Poetry - 2010!
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Sheri-D Wilson’s Random Acts of Poetry - 2010!

Kelly-Anne Riess reads in Saskatchewan.

2010-10-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

Kelly-Anne Riess reads in Saskatchewan.
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Kelly-Anne Riess poems youth in Regina and area.

2010 RAP photo from Rocco de Giacomo!

2010-10-14T10:36:00.001-07:00

2010 RAP photo from Rocco de Giacomo!
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2010 RAP photo from Rocco de Giacomo!

Allan Rose reads from “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart”.

2010-10-12T14:08:00.001-07:00

Allan Rose reads from “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart”.
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RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY 2010

ALLAN GLENN ROSE
at
KINCARDINE ARENA

Wow! What an afternoon and what a positive experience! We (Cathy, Lisa and myself; Cathy was my sign lady and Lisa took the photos) spent four hours with the young house leaguers of Kincardine who were enjoying many circuits around the rink in their annual Skatathon to raise funds for their community assisted hockey.

We were made welcome by all in attendance, and once I read to the first few children, we soon had a lineup of kids eager to hear a poem (or two) and receive their free books. Parents in attendance were just overwhelmed and so appreciative that their kids had been included in the RAP program. The youngsters enjoyed the poems about doing our part to protect the environment from “A Verdant Green”, but it was a real eye opener to see the enthusiasm for readings from “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart”, both from boys and girls. We heard “Please read another one” more than once. What poet doesn't love an audience like that?

The photographer/reporter from the Kincardine Independent showed up, interviewed me, and took a number of shots. The article should be ready in a few days and I'll send along a copy.

After we had given out all 50 books, the Captain of the local Junior C hockey team (they were there to “skate guard” and supervise the youngsters) skated over and started chatting with me about what we had been doing. Turns out he wanted to hear some love poems! So I went out to the truck and got whatever books I had left in there (about a half dozen) and read him “Hockey and the Girls”. He loved it and called his teammates over, telling them, “Ya gotta hear this guy! He's just like us, only a lot older.” I read four more love poems to these rough, tough hockey players and you could have heard a pin drop. Just goes to show the power of words – the power of poetry. Of course, being a retired high school teacher, it made me feel good inside to know I still could work the magic with this older age group. I didn't have enough books for all of them, but they promised to share what I was able to give them.

We just loved our day and it was an honour to be part of Random Acts of Poetry 2010. As one young lady told us in so many words: “We are lucky to have help from other people so we can play some hockey every week and we are lucky you all came here to read some poems for us. I try hard in school and English is my favourite subject. Now I can see how I can start writing my own poems too because they don't all have to rhyme.” We heard many very appreciative comments in the same vein and the children thought it was wonderful that a complete stranger (a writer/hockey player yet!) was taking such a keen interest in their academics, especially in their progress in their English classes. My words of encouragement did not fall on deaf ears.

Many of the children told me they would be taking their books to school, so I made sure to tell them to have their teachers contact me if they wanted me to do a poetry lesson (or two). I'm sure I'll be hearing from them.

When we left the rink, there was a group of little girls sitting in the lobby warming up, sipping on their hot chocolates, heads down, totally quiet, reading their treasured poetry books. What more could a writer ask for?

Allan Rose reads from “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart”.

2010-10-12T14:07:00.001-07:00

Allan Rose reads from “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart”.
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Allan Rose reads from “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart”.

Genevieve Morin poeming at Maison Dauphine's street school...(Qu ébec city).

2010-10-12T14:06:00.001-07:00

Genevieve Morin poeming at Maison Dauphine's street school...(Qu ébec city).
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Genevieve Morin poeming at Maison Dauphine's street school...(Québec city).

Domenico Capilongo visits Thornhill Area Alternative Education Programs.

2010-10-12T14:05:00.003-07:00

Domenico Capilongo visits Thornhill Area Alternative Education Programs.
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Domenico Capilongo visitsThornhill Area Alternative Education Programs.

Domenico Capilongo visits Toronto Youth Karate Program.

2010-10-12T14:05:00.001-07:00

Domenico Capilongo visits Toronto Youth Karate Program.
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Domenico Capilongo visits Toronto Youth Karate Program.

Angela Leuck and teens, Jumping for Joy at the Dawson Community Centre!

2010-10-12T14:04:00.001-07:00

Angela Leuck and teens, Jumping for Joy at the Dawson Communty Centre!
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Angela Leuck and teens, Jumping for Joy at the Dawson Community Centre!

Angela Leuck wth teens at Jeunesse 2000, N.D.G!

2010-10-12T14:03:00.005-07:00

Angela Leuck wth teens at Jeunesse 2000, N.D.G!
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Angela Leuck wth teens at Jeunesse 2000, N.D.G!

Hugh MacDonald RAPs on CBC's Mainstreet with Karen Mair.

2010-10-12T14:03:00.003-07:00

Hugh MacDonald RAPs on CBC's Mainstreet with Karen Mair.
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Hugh MacDonald RAPs on CBC's Mainstreet with Karen Mair.

Hugh MacDonald reads for the CBC's Island Morning with Matt Rainnie on board the ferry at Wood Islands.

2010-10-12T14:03:00.001-07:00

Hugh MacDonald reads for the CBC's Island Morning with Matt Rainnie on board the ferry at Wood Islands.
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Hugh MacDonald reads for the CBC's Island Morning with Matt Rainnie on board the ferry at Wood Islands.

RAP 2010 Photos from David Fraser!

2010-10-12T14:02:00.001-07:00

RAP 2010 Photos from David Fraser!
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RAP 2010 Photos from David Fraser!

2010-10-12T14:00:00.001-07:00

RAP 2010 Photos from David Fraser!
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RAP 2010 Photos from David Fraser!

Wendy Morton at Lauwelnew Tribal School, Saanich, B.C. grades 5 and 6.

2010-10-12T13:59:00.005-07:00

Wendy Morton at Lauwelnew Tribal School, Saanich, B.C. grades 5 and 6.
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Wendy Morton at Lauwelnew Tribal School, Saanich, B.C. grades 5 and 6.

2010-10-12T13:59:00.003-07:00

Wendy Morton at Lauwelnew Tribal School, Saanich, B.C. grades 5 and 6.
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Wendy Morton at Lauwelnew Tribal School, Saanich, B.C. grades 5 and 6.

Daniela Elza's photos from RAP 2010!

2010-10-12T13:59:00.001-07:00

Daniela Elza's photos from RAP 2010!
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Daniela Elza's photos from RAP 2010!

2010-10-12T13:58:00.005-07:00

Daniela Elza's photos from RAP 2010!
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Daniela Elza's photos from RAP 2010!

RAP 2010 from Stratford with Charles Mountford!

2010-10-12T13:58:00.003-07:00

RAP 2010 from Stratford with Charles Mountford!
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RAP 2010 from Stratford with Charles Mountford!

2010-10-12T13:58:00.001-07:00

RAP 2010 from Stratford with Charles Mountford!
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RAP 2010 from Stratford with Charles Mountford!

Kate Marshall Flaherty's RAP pix! Kate with the students at the YMCA Academy in Toronto!

2010-10-12T13:57:00.003-07:00

Kate Marshall Flaherty's RAP pix! Kate with the students at the YMCA Academy in Toronto!
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Kate Marshall Flaherty's RAP pix! Kate with the students at the YMCA Academy in Toronto!

2010-10-12T13:57:00.001-07:00

Kate Marshall Flaherty's RAP pix! Kate with the students at the YMCA Academy in Toronto!
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Kate Marshall Flaherty's RAP pix! Kate with the students at the YMCA Academy in Toronto!

Susan Stenson poeming kids at the Zen Zone at Claremont Secondary School.

2010-10-12T13:56:00.003-07:00

Susan Stenson poeming kids at the Zen Zone at Claremont Secondary School.
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Susan Stenson poeming kids at the Zen Zone at Claremont Secondary School.

Susan Stenson poeming up a storm!

2010-10-12T13:56:00.001-07:00

Susan Stenson poeming up a storm!
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Susan Stenson poeming up a storm!

RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY FOCUSES ON YOUTH

2010-10-06T10:03:00.000-07:00

Poets across Canada will visit juvenile detention centres, alternative schools and youth centres October 4th to 9th, 2010, during the seventh annual Random Acts of Poetry event, sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts.

For the first time, the event is focused on bringing poetry to young people. “We want to draw attention to youth literacy, which is a crucial issue for Canada’s future,” says Claire Rettie, executive director of the READ Society, a non-profit literacy organization serving children, youth and adults in Victoria, British Columbia.

READ supports the national event in conjunction with Sooke poet Wendy Morton, the event founder. During the week, 29 poets across Canada, from Victoria, B.C. to Pasadena, Newfoundland, will commit Random Acts of Poetry in their cities. Poets will read to youth and hand out copies of their poetry books.

“We will choose poems that speak to young people and hope to encourage them to find poems in their own lives,” says Morton, who will read at LÁU,WELNEW Tribal School in Saanich, B.C. She believes that poetry is a way into language for those who have barriers to it.

Since 1976, READ has provided tuition assistance for children and youth from low-income households in Victoria so they can improve their reading, writing, mathematics and study skills.

Across Canada poets will commit Random Acts in: Calgary, Edmonton, Elmvale, Fredericton, Gibsons, Kincardine, Laval, Montague, Montreal, Moose Jaw, Nanaimo, Ottawa, Pasadena,

Quebec City, Sooke, Stratford, Thamesford, Toronto, Vancouver, Verdun, Victoria, Windsor, Winnipeg and Wolfville.

Susan and Adrian

2010-10-06T10:01:00.001-07:00

Susan and Adrian
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Susan Stenson with Claremont Student, Adrian Southin.

Kim Goldberg shares a RED ZONE poem of homelessness with Jeremy Tritschler in a combined Junior Alternate and Social Justice class.

2010-10-06T10:00:00.001-07:00

Kim Goldberg shares a RED ZONE poem of homelessness with Jeremy Tritschler in a combined Junior Alternate and Social Justice class.
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Kim Goldberg shares a RED ZONE poem of homelessness with Jeremy Tritschler in a combined Junior Alternate and Social Justice class.

Nanaimo Secondary School student Tennille Giacomello studies a poem of homelessness from RED ZONE with Kim Goldberg.

2010-10-06T09:59:00.003-07:00

Nanaimo Secondary School student Tennille Giacomello studies a poem of homelessness from RED ZONE with Kim Goldberg.
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Nanaimo Secondary School student Tennille Giacomello studies a poem of homelessness from RED ZONE with Kim Goldberg.

Hugh MacDonald

2010-10-04T16:42:00.003-07:00

Hugh MacDonald
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Poet, editor and novelist Hugh MacDonald of Brudenell is the new poet laureate for Prince Edward Island.
With nine books to his credit as author and editor, MacDonald is perhaps best known to Islanders through his Random Acts of Poetry which, for the past five years, have brought poetry to the streets and workplaces of P.E.I.
MacDonald retired after more than 30 years of service in the educational system of the province and, since 1999, has been a full-time writer. He has served on the executives of both the Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts and the P.E.I. Writers Guild. Recognition for his work and leadership includes awards and prizes in the P.E.I. Literary Awards including the L.M. Montgomery Children’s Literature Award for Chung Lee Loves Lobsters, a first prize for poetry from the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia.
In 2004, he was presented with the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts on Prince Edward Island.

Billeh Nickerson

2010-10-04T16:42:00.001-07:00

Billeh Nickerson
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Billeh Nickerson is a former competitive junior curler. He is not sure how this has impacted his writing, but he’s sure it has. He is the author three books including his most recent collection McPoems (Arsenal Pulp), which chronicles life on the other side of the fast food counter. He is currently working on a new anthology with Mariko Tamaki entitled Permanent Markers (Tightrope Books, forthcoming Fall 2012) and a cycle of poems about the Titanic entitled Impact: The Titanic Poems (Arsenal Pulp, fortchcoming Spring 2012. He lives in Vancouver, where he teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

David Fraser

2010-10-04T16:41:00.003-07:00

David Fraser
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Rocco de Giacomo

2010-10-04T16:41:00.001-07:00

Rocco de Giacomo
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Rocco de Giacomo is a widely published poet whose work has most recently been accepted in the literary journals Contemporary Verse 2 and Prism International and has recently appeared The Carolina Review and The Prairie Journal. On October 18th, 2009, his first full-length poetry collection, Ten Thousand Miles Between Us was launched through Quattro Books. Also, his fifth and latest chapbook collection of poems, Catching Dawn’s Breath (LyricalMyrical Press, Toronto) was launched in March of 2008.

Domenico Capilongo

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Domenico Capilongo
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Domenico Capilongo lives in Toronto, with his family. He teaches high school creative writing, alternative education and practices karate. He has had work published in several literary magazines including Geist, and Dreamcatcher. He short-listed for the gritLIT Poetry Contest 2009 and his first book of poetry, I thought elvis was Italian was published in the spring of 2008 with Wolsak and Wynn. His new book of jazz-inspired poetry, hold the note, is published this fall with Quattro Books.
( learn more at: sites.google.com/site/domcapilongo/)

Kate Marshall Flaherty

2010-10-04T16:40:00.001-07:00

Kate Marshall Flaherty
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Kate Marshall Flaherty guides "Writing as a spiritual practice" and "Writing from Within" workshops, and teaches yoga and meditation. She was a founding member of the Toronto Peace Theatre, and now works with youth giving Leadership and Golden Rule retreats. "where we are going" is her fourth book of poetry.

Susan Stenson

2010-10-04T16:39:00.001-07:00

Susan Stenson
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Susan Stenson's work has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines, most recently, Fiddlehead, Geist, CV2 and sub Terrain and in the anthology Threshold: six women six poets. She won two first prizes in 2004: The ARC Poem of the Year Contest, and The Rona Murray Prize for Literature. She also won first prize in the Great Canadian Literary Hunt, This Magazine’s poetry contest 2000, the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 1999 and the Hawthorne Poetry Chapbook Award in 1997, for her work, A Little Less Swing, A Little More Sway.

Her work rides the buses throughout British Columbia in the Poetry in Transit program and she participated in the first annual Random Acts of Poetry Week in 2004 and again in 2006 and 2007 in Victoria. Sono Nis Press published her first book of poems, Could Love a Man, next came My Mother Agrees With the Dead (2007), from Wolsak and Wyn. Her current book, Nobody Move, (2010) celebrates, without apology, Susan’s great loves, family, friends, the human heart.

She lives ecstatically in Victoria with her family where she co-publishes The Claremont Review, a literary magazine for writers aged 13 to 19 which was Write Magazine’s choice for magazine of the year, 2001. Susan teaches English and creative writing in Saanich School District and has taught at Waterford Kamhlaba’s United World College in Mbabane, Swaziland. Her students, both youth and adult, have won provincial, national and international prizes.

Bianca Lakoseljac

2010-10-04T16:38:00.003-07:00

Bianca Lakoseljac
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Bianca Lakoseljac holds M.A. and B.A. from York University and is the winner of Matthew Ahern Memorial Award in Literature. Bianca taught communication at Ryerson University and Humber College in Toronto . Memoirs of a Praying Mantis, a collection of poetry exploring environmental issues, legends and sculptures of Toronto ’s High Park , and horrors of wars was published in 2009. Bianca served as judge for a number of literary competitions. She is past president and program chair of the Canadian Authors Association, Toronto branch; a board member with Book and Periodical Council; member of the Writers Union of Canada; the League of Canadian Poets; PEN Canda; Algonquin Square Table, a U of T poetry group. Bianca does readings on a regular basis at writers’ festivals, libraries, and bookstores. www.biancalakoseljac.ca

Allan Glenn Rose

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Allan Glenn Rose
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A member of the League of Canadian Poets and author of the critically acclaimed Griffin-nominated “Butterflies in Winter”, “So Much to Feel” and “The Girls of Saturday Morning”, Allan Glenn Rose has worn many hats over the years: construction laborer, steeplejack, high school English Literature and History teacher, organic market gardener, live music concert promoter and football coach. He has been involved in the hockey world over his lifetime as a player, scout, executive and coach.

Enjoy his vividly accessible verse just for its clarity of diction and emotion, or delve into its many layers; whatever approach you take, you will find his words strike a responsive chord in your heart.

He is one of the thirteen Canadian writers who contributed poems to the recently published “A Verdant Green”, Canada's national environmental anthology.

His latest book, “The Greatest Canadian Love Poem and Other Treasures of the Heart” explores the many aspects of this most basic and most fascinating of all human emotions. Its six sections will lead you on your own journey of the heart with stops along the way at love, loss and laughter; side trips to a beautiful garden and an enthralling cabaret, then a final stroll along the romantic roads of the past.

Sheri-D Wilson

2010-10-04T16:37:00.003-07:00

Sheri-D Wilson
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Sheri-D Wilson
“The Mama of Dada”

In 2009 CBC called her one of the Top 10 Poets in Canada – she’s performed the world: Poetry Africa, Vancouver International Writers Festival, Montreal’s Blue Met, NYC’s Bowery Club, maelstrÖm Brussels, Taos Circus, Bumbershoot – 2003 she won the USA Heavyweight title.

w/ 7 collections, 2 CD’s, 4 VideoPoems. Way back, she attended Naropa, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, & still practices Buddhism.

Artistic Director, Calgary International Spoken Word Festival
Director, Spoken Word Program at Banff Centre
www.sheridwilson.com
www.calgaryspokenwordfestival.com

Daniela Elza

2010-10-04T16:37:00.001-07:00

Daniela Elza
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Daniela Elza is a poet, and a free range scholar of the poetic consciousness.
She has released more than a 140 non-medicated/organic poems into the wor(l)d in over 42 publications.
Daniela is the recipient of this year's Pandora's Collective Citizenship Award.

Nellie P. Strowbridge

2010-10-04T16:36:00.003-07:00

Nellie P. Strowbridge
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Nellie P. Strowbridge, the winner of provincial and national awards, has been published nationally and internationally. Her work is capsuled in The National Archives as Newfoundland’s winner in Canada’s Stamp of Approval Award.
Nellie Strowbridge, a former columnist and editorial writer, is also an essayist and an award-winning poet. She has been Writer in the Library, a mentor to young writers, an adjudicator in the Provincial Arts and Letters Awards, an assessor on the Newfoundland and Labrador Grants Committee and a judge on the Newfoundland and Labrador Alliance Book Awards. She has held school workshops in Canada and Ireland, and also hosted a Seminar/Gabfest for International Women’s Day in Cobh, Ireland, where she was Writer-in-Residence. The Canadian Embassy in Dublin also sponsored a reading and reception.

The author is a member of The Writers’ Alliance of NL, Page One, The Writers’ Union of Canada, The League of Canadian Poets. Books published: Widdershins Stories of a Fisherman’s Daughter, Doors Held Ajar (tri-author with Isobel Brown
& Peggy Krachun), Shadows of the Heart,Dancing on Ochre Sands (short-listed for the WANL E.J. Pratt Award 2005), Far From Home Dr Grenfell’s Little Orphan (4th printing, short-listed for The NL Historic and History Award 2006), The Gift of Christmas, (reviewed by the Aurora as "A Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas Classic", The Newfoundland Tongue, (3rd printing), Catherine Snow in the Eye of
the Rope (2nd printing). Maiden from the Sea (pub. date 2012).Other credits are:
Postcard and Bus Poetry, publication in No Choice but to Trust, Circle of Six: a collection featuring six Newfoundland poets. Her work is in the school series
Land Sea & Time. "Summer Job" in a Canadian textbook Passages 12 and CD.Second Prize in the Orion Prize for Poetry 2003 for "September 11, 200l in
Newfoundland," "The Fisherman's Hands", The Backyards of Heaven 2003, and "The Emerald Island and "The Fisherman's Wife" (published eight times) were included in The March Hare Anthology.

Susan Telfer

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Susan Telfer
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Susan Telfer's first book of poetry, House Beneath, was published by Hagios Press in 2009. She lives on the Sunshine Coast with her family and teaches high school there.

Leslie Piché

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Leslie Piché
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Née à Trois-Rivières, le 26 juillet 1961, vit à Laval. Étudie en littérature, puis en pédagogie. Enseigne pendant quinze ans le français au secondaire. Dès 2004, gagne le premier prix de la Quinzaine de poésie de Montréal avec Inventaire, inspiré d’un poème de Roland Giguère. S’enchaînent : prix Piché , mention, en 2004, pour la suite Nos petites morts; publication dans Virages,Voir en ligne, Brèves, Le Passeur; lectures publiques, récitals de poésie à Trois-Rivières en octobre 2006 et 2007; «performer» à la Galerie Presse-Papier avec Alain Fleurent et Carolane St-Pierre au Festival de Poésie en 2009. Finaliste aux prix de la Culture de Ville de Laval en 2006; finaliste au concours la poésie prend le métro et le bus. Lectures publiques avec la Société littéraire de Laval (dont elle assure la présidence depuis juillet 2010) ,participation au Marché de la Poésie. En décembre 2010, la Maison des Arts de Laval exposera sa suite poétique Développement inclus, accompagnée de 24 poses de Carolane St-Pierre.

Kim Goldberg

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Kim Goldberg
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Kim Goldberg's latest book is RED ZONE, a poem diary of Nanaimo's homeless population. Her previous collection, Ride Backwards on Dragon, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She creates poem galleries in vacant storefront windows, co-hosts an urban poetry cafe on a Nanaimo radio station and is a frequent performer at spoken word events on Vancouver Island. Her poems have appeared in The Capilano Review, West Coast Line, Prairie Fire, Geist, Rampike and numerous other magazines and anthologies around the world. She is the author of six books and has lived in Nanaimo for more than thirty years. Visit her micropress at: www.pigsquashpress.com

Vivian Hansen

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Vivian Hansen
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Vivian Hansen is a Calgary writer, poet and activist. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in many anthologies, most recently in The Madwoman in the Academy and Writing the Terrain. She has recently edited a collection of poetry entitled Rubbing-Stone: A Nose Hill Anthology. Her chapbook Never Call It Bird: the Melodies of Aids came out in 1998. Her 1st full-length book of poetry Leylines of My Flesh is a work about Danish immigration to western Canada. Angel Alley, a chapbook about the victims of Jack the Ripper, came out in 2004. Her most recent poetry manuscripts are: A Tincture of Sunlight, a love story for Old Man, and A Bitter Mood of Clouds, the story of Arne Petersen, who received sex reassignment in Denmark in 1953. Vivian is currently enrolled in the Low-Residency MFA (Creative Writing) program with the University of British Columbia.

Eliz Robert

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Eliz Robert
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Éliz Robert, founder of Noches de poesía, literary translator, Spoken Word artist and publisher, was born in Beloeil, Québec. She writes in French, English and Spanish and has published four books of poetry in translation. Her texts have appeared on the docks of Montréal’s metro stations as part of La poésie prend le metro, in a Canadian anthology and a few literary magazines. In 2010, her trilingual poem “Between the covers” was released as part of a CD compilation Une chance qu’on SLAMME. She was voted as part of the TOP TEN Spoken Word Acts of Montréal for 2009 (The Mirror Readership). She is the national editor of YoungPoets.ca, the youth section of the League of Canadian Poets, and president of Adage editions. Éliz is a graduate of the Banff Centre Spoken Word Residency Program and has performed in Europe, Canada and New York City. She is a full member of The League of Canadian Poets, the Quebec Writers’ Federation and the Literary Translators Association of Canada. Éliz also sits on the boards of Diffusion Adage and the Société littéraire de Laval. More: www.elizabethrobert.ca
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Wendy Morton

2010-10-04T16:32:00.003-07:00

Wendy Morton
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Wendy Morton believes that poetry is the shortest distance between hearts. She has five books of poetry, and a memoir, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, in which her adventures as a corporate sponsored poet are revealed. She has been WestJet’s Poet of the Skies, Chrysler’s Poet of the Road, and is currently sponsored by Fairmont Hotels, AbeBooks and Prairie Naturals Vitamins.

Her latest book of poetry, What Were There Dreams, from Black Moss Press, is a book of photo-poems of Canada’s history, commissioned by the Alberni Valley Museum.

She is the founder of Canada’s Random Acts of Poetry, now in its 7th year, and is the recipient of the 2010 Spirit Bear Award and the Golden Beret Award. For her day job, she has been an insurance investigator for the last 28 years. She lives in Sooke, B.C. in a small house with a large garden. She is a raven watcher.

Mary Ann Mulhern

2010-10-04T16:32:00.001-07:00

Mary Ann Mulhern
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Mary Ann Mulhern is a Windsor teacher and poet.

The Red Dress, published by Black Moss Press received national attention in a CBC interview on Tapestry.

Touch the Dead, also published by Black Moss, was short-listed for the Acorn- Plantos award in 2007.

When Angels Weep, published in 2008 , was launched at the University of Windsor and short-listed for the Acorn-Plantos award in 2009

Mulhern’s new book, “Sleeping with Satan,” brings the Salem Witch-hunt into contemporary focus. Sleeping with Satan is published by Black Moss Press.

Angela Leuck

2010-10-04T16:31:00.003-07:00

Angela Leuck
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Angela Leuck is an award-winning poet whose work has been published in journals and anthologies around the world. A number of her poems were included in Haiku Journey, a video game by Hot Lava Games (2006). She is the author of Garden Meditations and A Cicada in the Cosmos (inkling, 2010), haiku white and haiku noir (carve, 2007) and Flower Heart (Blue Ginkgo Press, 2006). She has also edited numerous anthologies, including Rose Haiku for Flower Lovers and Gardeners (Price-Patterson, 2005), Tulip Haiku (Shoreline, 2004), and, with Maxianne Berger, Sun Through the Blinds: Montreal Haiku Today (Shoreline, 2003).

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Check out my blog:
"A Poet in the Garden" www.acleuck.blogspot.com

Kelly-Ann Riess

2010-10-04T16:31:00.001-07:00

Kelly-Ann Riess
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Kelly-Anne Riess is a poet based in Moose Jaw. She is the author of the poetry collection To End a Conversation, which has been featured on CBC Radio and on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Her work has been published in literary journals across Canada, and, recently, she was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Award, a YWCA Young Woman of Distinction Award and a Regina Mayor’s Art Award. Riess also works as a freelance journalist, having written for many newspapers and magazines, including the Globe and Mail and Canadian Geographic. She has travelled across North America, working on documentaries that have aired worldwide on networks such as the A&E Biography Channel, History Television and CBC. Riess was the lead writer on the bestselling Saskatchewan Book of Everything.

Pierrette Requier

2010-10-04T16:30:00.003-07:00

Pierrette Requier
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Pierrette Requier, bilingual poet, speaker, and workshop facilitator enjoys and encourages collaborations with poets of all ages, visual artists and musicians. Her work has been published in a number of anthologies, websites and magazines. She has published a book of poetry as part of Frontenac House’s Quartet 2009. In June 2010, her bilingual poems appeared in a two-person show “Storm/orage” with Alberta’s Storm Chaser, and visual artist Ian Sheldon in The Works, Edmonton’s Art and Design Festival. As designer and facilitator of the Wind Eye Writing Seminars Pierrette hosts monthly gatherings in her studio. She believes that every person has poems and that the act of writing, then reading poems aloud brings out the magnificence.

She will be working with youth at the Armoury branch of the Youth Emergency Shelter in Edmonton as well as at Georges P. Vanier School in Donnelly Alberta where she attended school and later taught language arts.

Geneviève Morin

2010-10-04T16:30:00.001-07:00

Geneviève Morin
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Née en 1974, Geneviève Morin est une écrivaine émergente de la ville de Québec. Sa poésie, à la fois narrative, intime et surréaliste, est souvent teintée d'humour noir. En 2008 elle a obtenu le Prix littéraire Alphonse-Piché. Son texte primé a paru dans le recueil Poèmes du lendemain 17 aux Écrits des Forges. Elle a aussi publié des textes brefs dans les revues Estuaire, Moebius, Contemporary Verse 2 et une nouvelle dans Xyz. Présente sur la scène poétique de Québec depuis 1994 (Tam-tam Café, printemps des poètes, etc.), elle anime depuis 2007 un cercle d’écriture au Collège François-Xavier-Garneau, à Québec.

Geneviève Morin was born in 1974. She is part of the new generation of Quebec city’s poets. Her poetry talks about everyday life and is often ironic. Her imagery is also strongly surrealistic. In 2008 she won the Alphonse-Piché poetry award. Her winning collection was published in the book « Poèmes du lendemain 17 » (Écrit des forges). She also published poems and short stories in canadian literary reviews such as Estuaire, Moebius, Xyz and Contemporary Verse 2. She likes to perform her poetry on stage and participates in literary festivals and events since 1994. In 2007 she began teaching creative writing (as an afterschool activity) at Collège Francois-Xavier-Garneau (Québec city.

Joe Blades

2010-10-04T16:29:00.001-07:00

Joe Blades
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Joe Blades lives in Fredericton, NB. On the editorial board of revue ellipse mag, he is founding publisher of the 25-year-old Broken Jaw Press, President of the League of Canadian Poets, and the author of seven poetry books, including Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry (Ekstasis Editions) and the forthcoming Casemate Poems (Collected) (Chaudiere Books). In spring 2010, he gave poetry readings in Romania, Hungary, Serbia and the 49th Sarajevo Poetry Days.

Carla Funk

2010-10-04T16:28:00.001-07:00

Carla Funk
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Carla Funk served as the City of Victoria’s inaugural poet laureate from 2006-2008. Her work first appeared in the landmark anthology Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets, and she has since published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Apologetic (Turnstone Press). She teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.

Carmelo Militano

2010-10-03T14:50:00.000-07:00

Carmelo Militano
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Carmelo Militano was born in the village of Cosoleto, Province of Reggio di Calabaria, Italy. He emigrated to Canada with his parents at a very young age. He attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg for post-secondary and graduate studies. He is also a member of the Assocation of Italian-Canadian Writers. Carmelo both lives with his family and works in Winnipeg.

Awards

San Bernardo Literary Prize(Italy), 2002
F.G. Bressani Literary award for Poetry(Canada), 2004
Shortlisted for the Eileen McTavish Skyes Award, (The Fate of Olives), 2007

Selected Works

The Fate of Olives (Olive Press, 2006) ISBN: 0-9737818-2-3
The Minotaur's Keys (Olive Press, 2005) ISBN: 0-9737818-1-5
Ariadne's Thread (Olive Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-9737818-0-7

Anthologies

The Dynamics of Cutural Exchange (Cusmano Press, 2002)

Books in Print

The Fate of Olives (Olive Press, 2006) ISBN: 0-9737818-2-3
The Minotaur's Keys (Olive Press, 2005) ISBN: 0-9737818-1-5, $10.00
Ariadne's Thread (Olive Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-9737818-0-7, $10.00

Charles Mountford

2010-10-03T09:59:00.000-07:00

Charles Mountford
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Charles Mountford (M.A., English, University of Western Ontario; M.A. Librarianship, University of London), is a poet and opera librettist who lives in Stratford, Ontario and part-time in Quebec City. His books include, The Harvestman, Pendas, 2004 and The Night the Ducks Got Loose, Pendas, 2006. A third book from Pendas, The Thing On The Comb, will be published in 2009. He has also written the librettos for three modern chamber operas on Canadian themes, all of which have been produced in Stratford by Orpheus Productions, Stratford. One of these operas, Henry Hudson, is currently available on cd. He has won first prize in The Alberta Poetry Contest, two International Merit Awards (2007, 2008), from the Atlanta Review and, in 2008, was shortlisted for the Bridport (U.K.) Poetry Prize.

31 POETS TO COMMIT ‘RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY’ ACROSS CANADA

2009-12-28T12:55:00.000-08:00

31 POETS TO COMMIT ‘RANDOM ACTS OF POETRY’ ACROSS CANADA

Random Acts of Poetry, a celebration of poetry and literacy, begins its sixth year during the week of October 5 to 11, 2009. Random Acts of Poetry is a project of the Victoria READ Society, a non-profit literacy organization, established in 1976. Random Acts of Poetry is funded by The Canada Council for the Arts.

“It’s a great joy to touch people’s lives in this unique way,” says Claire Rettie, READ’s executive director. “Poetry is an invitation to nourish our literacy, and hearing a poem aloud is a rare treat.”

During the week, 31 acclaimed poets across Canada, from Victoria to Newfoundland, will commit Random Acts of Poetry in their cities and adjacent small towns. On buses and subways, in donut shops and cafes, police stations, grocery stores, shelters, curling rinks, on city streets and country lanes, poets will read poems to strangers and give them their books. Poets will also read their poems in ESL and Adult Literacy classes.

Patrick Lane, one of Canada’s premier poets, says of Random Acts of Poetry, “There are no accidents. Nothing is random. A poem sits in a poet’s pocket and jumps out when you least expect it. It can nestle in a mechanic’s ear, a politician’s hand, a waitress’s bright eye, somewhere, anywhere. You look up from work and there’s a poem. It reads itself to you. It asks you to take a break. It says: Right here. Right now.”

“Poetry,” says Wendy Morton, founder of Random Acts of Poetry, “is the shortest distance between two hearts. I have read poems to hundreds of people, many of whom hadn’t heard a poem in thirty years, and watched their eyes fill up with tears. Some burst into laughter or laid a hand on my shoulder, hugged me, took my hand. Poetry can connect us with each other as humans as no other art form I know. Poetry is a gift that we can create from whatever life has in store for us.”

Random Acts of Poetry contributes toward READ's Education Access program to help children and youth from low-income households improve their reading, writing, mathematics and study skills. Households contribute what they can and READ pays the rest by fund raising with the community.

Across Canada poets will commit random acts in: Victoria, Shawnigan Lake, Sooke, Nanaimo, Nanoose Bay, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Desboro, Stratford, Toronto, Port Perry , Trenton, Ottawa, Port McNicoll, Montreal, Laval, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Montague, Wolfville, Halifax, and St. John’s.

Valérie.

2009-12-28T12:44:00.001-08:00

Valérie.
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Élizabeth Robert & Valérie.

Marianne.

2009-12-28T12:43:00.003-08:00

Marianne.
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Élizabeth Robert & Marianne.

Jeffrey.

2009-12-28T12:43:00.001-08:00

Jeffrey.
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Élizabeth Robert & Jeffrey.

Geneviève Borne.

2009-12-28T12:42:00.001-08:00

Geneviève Borne.
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Geneviève Borne.

Éliz signe pour Kiwi.

2009-12-28T12:41:00.003-08:00

Éliz signe pour Kiwi.
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Élizabeth Robert signe pour Kiwi.

Éliz & Geneviève Borne.

2009-12-28T12:41:00.001-08:00

Éliz & Geneviève Borne.
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Éliz & Geneviève Borne.

A weekend partier gets poemed on Saskatoon's popular street, Broadway Avenue.

2009-12-22T13:09:00.000-08:00

A delighted audience after a reading of a poem about knitting.

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Taylor Leedahl enlightens Saskatonians about Random Acts of Poetry on the city's community radio station, CFCR.

2009-12-22T13:06:00.000-08:00

Taylor Leedahl poems an organic shopper at the Saskatoon Farmer's Market.

2009-12-22T13:05:00.000-08:00

Taylor Leedahl signs copies of No Apologies for the Weather after reading to a classroom at Bishop James Mahoney high school.

2009-12-22T13:03:00.000-08:00

Sheri-D Wilson poems a student.

2009-10-27T18:44:00.001-07:00

Sheri-D Wilson poems a student.
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Sheri-D Wilson poems a student at an Alternative High School.

Sheri-D Wilson and one of the Famous Five.

2009-10-27T18:43:00.003-07:00

Sheri-D Wilson and one of the Famous Five.
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Sheri-D Wilson poeming the women of the Famous Five.

Sheri-D Wilson and another one of the Famous Five.

2009-10-27T18:43:00.001-07:00

Sheri-D Wilson and another one of the Famous Five.
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Sheri-D Wilson poeming the women of the Famous Five.

Sheri-D Wilson & Vivian Hansen & Poetry Hopscotch.

2009-10-27T18:42:00.001-07:00

Sheri-D Wilson & Vivian Hansen & Poetry Hopscotch.
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Sheri-D Wilson & Vivian Hansen in an intense game of Poetry Hopscotch.

A curious passer-by & Sheri-D Wilson.

2009-10-27T18:41:00.001-07:00

A curious passer-by & Sheri-D Wilson.
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A curious passing-by local having been poemed by Sheri-D Wilson.

Susan Musgrave poems on the streets.

2009-10-27T18:40:00.003-07:00

Susan Musgrave poems on the streets.
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Susan Musgrave poems on the streets.

Susan Musgrave RAP'ing.

2009-10-27T18:40:00.001-07:00

Susan Musgrave RAP'ing.
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Susan Musgrave RAP'ing.

Michael Mirolla near the Guy-Concordia Metro Station.

2009-10-24T12:20:00.003-07:00

Michael Mirolla near the Guy-Concordia Metro Station.
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Concordia Interview: One of the photos taken near the Guy-Concordia Metro Station for the article in The Link.

Michael Mirolla with Annibale Palermo.

2009-10-24T12:20:00.001-07:00

Michael Mirolla with Annibale Palermo.
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Photo at the school gymnasium for the reading before a group of middle-aged men who play volleyball and soccer every Tuesday evening. With Annibale Palermo.

Michael Mirolla at a dinner party.

2009-10-24T12:19:00.001-07:00

Michael Mirolla at a dinner party.
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Michael Mirolla reads at a dinner party during which other people decided to perform their own Random Acts of Poetry.

Wanda Campbell poems Acadia University ESL students.

2009-10-22T21:51:00.003-07:00

Wanda Campbell poems Acadia University ESL students.
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Acadia University ESL students Ilya Grinev from Moscow, Russia and Johanna Green from northern Labrador.

This photo was taken by Claire Jewell.

Wanda Campbell poems at the Kentville Bus Station.

2009-10-22T21:51:00.001-07:00

Wanda Campbell poems at the Kentville Bus Station.
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Wanda Campbell poems Laraine Henson at the Kentville Bus Station.

Wanda Campbell at the Kings County Museum.

2009-10-22T21:50:00.001-07:00

Wanda Campbell at the Kings County Museum.
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Elsie Lane and Cathy MacKenzie at the Kings County Museum, Kentville NS.

Wanda Campbell poems outside the Wolfville Public Library.

2009-10-22T21:49:00.003-07:00

Wanda Campbell poems outside the Wolfville Public Library.
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Wanda Campbell poems a Chinese exchange student outside the Wolfville Public Library, formerly a train station.

Wanda Campbell poems Carson Herrick.

2009-10-22T21:49:00.001-07:00

Wanda Campbell poems Carson Herrick.
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Wanda Campbell poems Carson Herrick at the Fairlanes Bowling Centre, New Minas NS.

Luciano Iaccobelli taking over at Toronto poetry launch

2009-10-22T21:48:00.001-07:00

Luciano Iaccobelli taking over at Toronto poetry launch
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Luciano Iaccobelli taking over at Toronto poetry launch.

Luciano reads to an E.S.L. Class.

2009-10-22T21:47:00.003-07:00

Luciano reads to an E.S.L. Class.
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Luciano reads to an E.S.L. Class.

Luciano reading a poem to Nik Beat on CIUT Radio.

2009-10-22T21:47:00.001-07:00

Luciano reading a poem to Nik Beat on CIUT Radio.
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Luciano reading a poem to Nik Beat on CIUT Radio.

Luciano reads to Paul Z. outside Tim Horton's.

2009-10-22T21:46:00.003-07:00

Luciano reads to Paul Z. outside Tim Horton's.
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Luciano reads to Paul Z. outside Tim Horton's.

Luciano interrrupting a Bar Keep at The Annex Live.

2009-10-22T21:46:00.001-07:00

Luciano interrrupting a Bar Keep at The Annex Live.
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Luciano interrrupting a Bar Keep at The Annex Live.

Kim Goldberg, David Fraser and Leanne McIntosh.

2009-10-22T21:45:00.003-07:00

Kim Goldberg, David Fraser and Leanne McIntosh.
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The three poets laying down rhymes in Nanaimo/Parksville/Qualicum for Random Acts of Poetry this year were Kim Goldberg, David Fraser and
Leanne McIntosh.

Kim Goldberg at the Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society.

2009-10-22T21:45:00.001-07:00

Kim Goldberg at the Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society.
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18 new immigrants at the Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society spent the morning writing poems with Kim Goldberg in Nanaimo.

Kim Goldberg poems radio host Jan Coleman.

2009-10-22T21:44:00.003-07:00

Kim Goldberg poems radio host Jan Coleman.
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Kim Goldberg poems radio host Jan Coleman on the air during the People First show at Radio CHLY in the heart of Nanaimo's "red zone".

Kim Goldberg poems Cooper.

2009-10-22T21:44:00.001-07:00

Kim Goldberg poems Cooper.
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Eight-month old Cooper, held by proud grandma Wynna, can't wait to
get his hands on poetry while Kim Goldberg manages to (barely) keep
control of the text in the offices of the Nanaimo Brain Injury Society.

Kim Goldberg reads a poem about homelessness.

2009-10-22T21:43:00.001-07:00

Kim Goldberg reads a poem about homelessness.
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Kim Goldberg reads a poem about homelessness to people in the
Pearson Bridge underpass in downtown Nanaimo. A small community of
homeless people crawls behind the brightly painted wall to sleep each
night, using a tunnel they dug in the sandbank.

Wendy Morton turns herself in.

2009-10-22T21:42:00.003-07:00

Wendy Morton turns herself in.
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Poeming at the RCMP, Victoria.

Wendy Morton at the BC Environment BBQ.

2009-10-22T21:42:00.001-07:00

Wendy Morton at the BC Environment BBQ.
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Poeming at the Ministry of Environment cook-out.

Wendy Morton poeming an ESL class.

2009-10-22T21:41:00.001-07:00

Wendy Morton poeming an ESL class.
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After poeming at an ESL class, Victoria.