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The Artbardy Har Har An evening of comedic poetry hosted by Valentino Assenza and featuring Jeff Cottrill, Arianna Pozuolli, Mike Bryant, Myna Wallin, David Clink, and Luciano Iacobelli. Open mic readers are encouraged to bust out their most hilarious material!
Tanis MacDonald Tanis MacDonald is the author of two books of poetry: Holding Ground (Seraphim Editions) and Fortune (Turnstone Press). She received the Bliss Carmen Poetry Prize in 2003. She is a former Art Bar board member and now serves as professor of poetry and all things Canadian at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo. She will be celebrating her new poetry book, Rue the Day (Turnstone Press). Catherine Graham Catherine Graham is the author of three poetry collections. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto and designs and delivers workshops on creativity for the business and academic communities. She will be celebrating her new poetry book, The Red Element (Insomniac Press). Fraser Sutherland Fraser Sutherland is the author of nine books of poetry, as well as books of criticism, bibliography, non-fiction and fiction. He has been a senior contributing reviewer at The Globe and Mail since 1998. His work has appeared in more than 100 periodicals and anthologies in Canada, USA, Great Britain, France, Serbia, Iran, Albania and Bangladesh. His most recent poetry collection is Manual for Emigrants (Tightrope Books).
Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino has published three volumes of poetry for which he has won the Canadian Authors Association Prize, the A.M.Klein Award, and the F.G.Bressani Prize. He was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. His most recent collection is With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press). He is the author of A Lover's Quarrel (Porcupine's Quill), a collection of essays on Canadian poetry. He is the editor of The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Vehicule Press). He is editor for the Signal Editions poetry series and an associate editor for Books in Canada. George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke is a poet, editor, playwright, literary critic, and a professor of English at the University of Toronto. He joins print and oral poetry in his work. He received the Governor General's Award for Execution Poems (Gaspereau Press). His book, Whylah Falls (Polestar) won the Archibald Lampman Award. He wrote the libretto for his verse-play Beatrice Chancy (Polestar). His most recent poetry book is Quebecite (Gaspereau Press). He has been honoured with the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. Kevin Fortnum Kevin Fortnum has been part of the Toronto poetry scene for close to five years. He is part of a six-person collective, Last Call Poets and hosts the poetry series "She Rusty Sleep" at the Skydragon in Hamilton. He has been dubbed the "Lou Reed" of the Toronto word scene. |
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