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Play Chthonics Reading Series will host writers Lee Maracle and Wayde Compton December 3, 2007 at 7:30 PM followed by a reception and cash bar.
Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC.
Lee Maracle is a member of the Sto:lo nation. She is the author of a number of works including Will's Garden (Theytus Books 2002), Daughters are Forever (Raincoast Books 2002), I am Woman (Press Gang 2000), Bent Box (Theytus Books 2000), Ravensong (Press Gang Publishers 1993), Sojourners and Sundogs (1991), Bobbi Lee (1975), and is co-editor of My Home as I Remember, Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture (1990) and Gatherings, Vol 1, 2, and 13. Maracle is currently Visiting Professor of Aboriginal Studies and English at the University of Toronto and Instructor at the University College of the Fraser Valley.
Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer and editor whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm (Arsenal 1999), Performance Bond (Arsenal 2004) and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (Arsenal 2001). He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. Wayde Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He is the Writer-in-Residence at SFU for 2007-8.
Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations between writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is based in the English Department at UBC, and is in the midst of a six-reading season for 2007-8.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, and the Department of English at UBC.
