SLOWest Coffeehouse Series & AB Series

Terry Ann Carter & Peter Richardson at The SLOWest Coffeehouse Series, Saturday, 12 November 2011, 7-9pm.

Richardson’s Sympathy for the Couriers (2007) won the QWF’s A.M. Klein Award for 2008. He has published three collections of poetry with Véhicule Press in Montreal: A Tinkers’ Picnic (1999), shortlisted for the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and An ABC of Belly Work (2003), a finalist for the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award.
Terry Ann Carter is the author of three collections of poetry (Waiting for Julia, third eye press, 1999), Transplanted (Borealis Press, 2005) and A Crazy Man Thinks He’s Ernest in Paris (Black Moss Press, 2010). She published Lighting the Global Lantern: A Teacher’s Guide to Writing Haiku and Related Literary Forms with Wintergreen Studios Press, 2011.
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And Ottawa being Ottawa, there’s naturally one other big literary event competing for your attention this Saturday night. At Gallery 101, near Bank and Someret, the AB Series has Shirley Bear & Mark Truscott as a double bill.
Shirley Bear (Mingwôn Mingwôn) is an order of Canada recipient, a native herbalist, activist, Elder and poet. She’s in Kelusultiek: original women’s voices of Atlantic Canada. She asserts that equality is not just nice-to-have, but a matter of human survival in Equality Among Women. Her book Virgin Bones/ Belayak Kcikug’nas’ikn’ug is a mix of art, lecture and poetry, “Bear’s artistic, political and critical development from the sit-ins of the sixties to the stand-off at Oka, Virgin Bones extends over a life, a generation and a nation.” Dec 4th she’s be at the Kogawa House in the Writing for Social Change series. Here’s a video of her.
Mark Truscott is a avant-edged poet with the Toronto New School of Writing. His first of two books was decribed as, “these small gatherings of words, a.k.a. ‘poems,’ seek strangeness in familiar language; their effect is harmonic dissonance within the mind”. You can listen to him on the radio tonight at 5. He’s in interview on Click Here CHUO, Nov 9th.