Jason Christie & Ken Howe

Poets Jason Christie and Ken Howe reading!

When: February 26th, 7:30 p.m.
Cash bar open at 7:00 p.m.

Where: Thea’s Lounge
Thea Koerner House Graduate Center
6371 Crescent Road, UBC

Map: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=408

Jason Christie is the author of i ROBOT poetry by Jason Christie (EDGE 2006) and Canada Post (Snare 2006). He co-edited Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury 2006), an issue of Open Letter on the role of Small Press publishing in Canada. i ROBOT Poetry takes readers into the automated world of the appliance where sentience brings disharmony as common household items are no longer content to be slaves to the needs of human beings. Jason's work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines across North America.

Ken Howe has published two books of poetry: Household Hints for the End of Time (Brick Books 2001), which won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award, and Cruise Control: A Theogony (Harbour Publishing 2002). Originally from Alberta, he now lives in Québec city, where he works as a translator.

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