Christine Stewart and Christian Bok this Wednesday!

Play Chthonics Contemporary Canadian Reading Series presents:

Christian Bök and Christine Stewart

Wednesday October 22 at 7:30pm.

Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC.

Christine Stewart is the author of Pessoa’s July: or the months of astonishments (Nomados, 2006), From Taxonomy (West House, 2003, selections were awarded the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry), and Daddy Clean Head (Lumpe, 2000). Her poetry has also appeared in numerous journals including, ecopoetics,Raddle Moon,how2, The Gig, Writing and Big Alice. She currently writes and teaches experimental poetry and poetics in the English and Film Department at the University of Alberta.

Christian Bök is the author of the bestselling experimental work, Eunoia (Coach House, 2001), which won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. His previous book, Crystallography (Coach House, 1994) was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows, Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon, and has earned accolades for his performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök is a Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

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Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations among writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, the Department of English at UBC and Green College.