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Spencer Butt Spencer was born in a small town and is now lost in a big city. His legs are an old red bicycle and his eyes go fuzzy without glasses. His diet is comic books and video games and his lungs are full of laugh induced tears and his heart is actually a stick of dynamite in a bird cage masquerading as a major pain in the ass. He has the posture of a weeping willow and the attention span of a. He dreams in horror movies and belongs to the church that professional wrestling built. When he grows up he wants to be a cryptozoologist or not a disappointment. He has been seen performing poems in and around Ontario at such events as the 2006 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Demenchia 5, Word Jam, Wavelength, Cryptic Chatter, Strong Words, The Last Comedy Show, Laugh Sabbath, Throw It Thru Your Radio (Montreal) and others. When he is not traveling to various schools in the GTA giving seminars on spoken word poetry he can be seen Saturday nights on SunTV's "King Kaboom". His mom likes his poems even though there are swears. Jaclyn Piudik Jaclyn Piudik has had poems in Crosscurrents, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, among others. Her work was included in the recent anthology, Garden Variety (Quattro Books). She is the author of one chapbook, The Tao of Loathliness (Fooliar Press). Currently she is working on a PhD in medieval literature at UofT. Christopher Doda Christopher Doda is a poet, critic, and editor living in Toronto.He has published two collections with the Mansfield Press: Among Ruins (2001) and most recently Aesthetics Lesson (2007). He is an editor at Exile Quarterly and Exile Editions, as well as book review editor for Studio, an online poetry journal.
OmahaRisinG In previous incarnations, OmahaRisinG has been (with no particular order of significance) an amateur kickboxer, a postal worker, and a firefighter. In 2001, he ran POETICA, a weekly series in Toronto, where he lives. He is the author of Eudysia (Mimp Yob, 2007). James Dewar James Dewar is a poet who encourages the popularization of poetry in the Toronto area. He enjoys attending as many readings as possible and publishes other poets through CreativeJames Publishing. Three years ago he started his own Poetry series, Hot-Sauced Words, which continues to do well the first Thursday of every month. He was one of 27 poets who represented Canada during Random Acts of Poetry week in October 2007. He is the author of The Garden in the Machine (Hidden Brook Press, 2007). He will be reading from his new book, Forbidden Tree (Go ForWords Publishing). Karen Petersen Karen Petersen is a Toronto writer. She says "Karen Petersen has been an emerging poet for nigh on thirty years. Let that be a lesson to you."
Robert Earl Stewart Robert Earl Stewart is the editor of a weekly newspaper in a community outside of his hometown of Windsor, and instructs creative writing workshops at Mackenzie Hall. His poetry has appeared in Magnum, Nthposition,The moosehead Anthology, Fresh Boiled Peanuts, Monday Night and This Magazine. He is the curator of the photoblog www.glasspoeme.blogspot.com Susan Helwig For several years Susan Helwig produced and hosted the literary program "In Other Words" at CKLN-FM in Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as The Antigonish Review, Descant and CV2. Recently her work was included in Silver Boomers, an anthology from Abilene, Texas. In 2007 her poetry was shortlisted for the Silver Hammer Award. She is the author of two books of poetry, the most recent being Pink Purse Girl (Wolsak and Wynn). Irene Marques Irene Marques was born and raised in Portugal and emigrated to Canada at the age of thirty. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, a Masters in French literature and a Bachelor of Social Work. She will be celebrating the publication of Wearing Glasses of Water (TSAR Publications). |
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