VANCOUVER—Join us at Green College’s Graham House to hear Canadian poets Jeff Derksen and Adam Dickinson read from their work and discuss their poetics.
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free
Adam Dickinson’s poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in a number of journals in Canada, the UK, and the USA. His work has also been anthologized in Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, Post Prairie, The Echoing Years: An Anthology of Poetry from Canada and Ireland, and in The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science. His first book of poetry Cartography and Walking (Brick Books, 2002) was short listed for an Alberta Book Award. His second collection Kingdom, Phylum (Brick Books, 2006) was a finalist for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Adam is currently Assistant Professor of poetics at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he teaches poetry, creative writing, and literary theory, and also serves as co-editor of the literary journal PRECIPICe.
Jeff Derksen is a poet and cultural critic and who works at Simon Fraser University. His books of poetry include Down Time, Dwell, and Transnational Muscle Cars (all from Talonbooks). His poetry has been anthologized in The Gertrude Stein Anthology of Innovative North American Poetry, Writing Class, The Canadian Long Poem Anthology and Half in the Sun: an anthology of Mennonite Writing. His work has been translated into French, Icelandic, and Italian. A former editor of Writing magazine, he also edited “Poetry and the Long Neoliberal Moment” for West Coast Line and “Disgust and Overdetermination: a poetics issue” for Open Letter.
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 and we are grateful for their support.
