Award-Winning Poets Roo Borson and Angela Rawlings Read at UBC

VANCOUVER—Step out of the windy rain and into the warmth of the Piano Lounge in the Graham House of Green College for a poetry reading by two great Canadian poets. The Play Chthonics Reading Series and the greater UBC community welcome award-winning poets Roo Borson and a.rawlings to read their work and discuss their poetics.

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free

a.rawlings’ first book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), documents a night in the life of Northern Ontario. rawlings co-edited Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (The Mercury Press, 2005), co-organized The Lexiconjury Reading Series (2001-6), hosted Heart of a Poet (2005), and facilitates sound/text/movement workshops (2003-present). She is the recipient of the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing (2001) and a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2008). rawlings is on the board of directors for the multidisciplinary performance company bluemouth inc. and frequently collaborates with improvising musicians.

Roo Borson is a poet and essayist. Her most recent book of poetry, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, received the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Award, and the Pat Lowther Award. Her book of literary non-fiction, Personal History, was published in 2008. She is currently working on a new book of poetry, as well as a collaborative project with poet Kim Maltman under the pen name Baziju.

The 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. The series is sponsored by The English Department, The International Canadian Studies Centre at UBC, Green College and the Canada Council. We are grateful for their support.

For more information, see http://playchthonics.blogspot.com/

Poets derek beaulieu and Fiona Tinwei Lam Read at UBC

VANCOUVER—Step out of the cold and into the warmth of the Graham House at Green College for a poetry reading by two of Canada’s most provocative poets. The Play Chthonics Reading Series and the greater UBC community welcome award-winning poets Derek Beaulieu and Fiona Tinwei Lam to read their work and discuss their poetics.

Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free

Fiona Tinwei Lam's first book of poetry, Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions), was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize. She is the co-editor and contributor to the non-fiction anthology Double Lives (McGill-Queen's). Her work has appeared in literary journals across Canada and is included in over a dozen anthologies. Her latest book of poetry is Enter the Chrysanthemum.

derek beaulieu’s four books of poetry all engage with textual production and the way that composition informs comprehension. His first book, with wax, was published by Coach House Books in 2003, and was followed-up by frogments from the frag pool: haiku after basho (Mercury Press, 2005) co-written with Gary Barwin and frfactal economies (talonbooks, 2006). His most recent book is chains (paper kite, 2008) which explores the relationship of meaning-making between the author and the reader through non-semantic concrete poetry. beaulieu is also the co-editor of the best-selling anthology Shift & Switch: new Canadian poetry. His collection of conceptual short fiction, How To Write is forthcoming from Talonbooks in 2010.

The 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.

The series is based in the English Department at UBC.For more information, see http://playchthonics.blogspot.com/ or contact Gillian Jerome at gjerome@interchange.ubc.ca.