PLAY Chthonics Reading Series invites you to the first reading of our 2007-2008 season: Catriona Strang and Sina Queyras will read September 20th at UBC.
PLACE:
Thea’s Lounge, Thea Koerner Graduate Student Centre
6371 Crescent Road, UBC
WHEN:
Reading 7:30
Cash bar 7:00
MAP: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408
Catriona Strang's latest book, Light Sweet Crude, co-authored with the late Nancy Shaw, is forthcoming from Line Books. Their other works include Busted (Coach House 2001) and Cold Trip (Nomados 1996). A former member of the Kootenay School of Writing, Catriona is also the author of TEM (Barscheit 1992), Low Fancy (ECW 1993), and Steep: A Performance Notebook (Seeing Eye 1997). She frequently collaborates with clarinetist François Houle, with whom she has two children. She lives in Vancouver and homeschools her kids.
Sina Queyras’ poetry collections include Lemon Hound (Coach House 2006), which won a 2007 Lambda Literary Award, Teeth Marks (Nightwood 2005) and Slip (ECW 2001). In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, and last fall edited Canadian Strange, a folio of contemporary Canadian writing for the journal Drunken Boat where she is a contributing editor. Queyras is co-curator of the *belladonna reading series in New York. She is currently working on a novel, Autobiography of Childhood, an excerpt from which appeared in translation in the French literary journal Siecle 21 out of Paris. In 2007-2008 she is writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary.
MORE INFO: “Play Chthonics” is a new reading series that showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. “Play Chthonics” encourages creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC, and will host six readings in 2007-8. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the International Canadian Studies Centre and the UBC English Department for this reading.
