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.

The Poet’s Pathway has new stopping points. They’re being installed at 10 a.m. today on the Nepean recreational pathway, beside Colonnade Road, 1.5km east of Merivale Road, behind Corinth Private (45 20’40.64″ N by 75 42’57.55″ W)
One plaque, Alfred Garneau’s Le croquis, is to Alfred Garneau, our first French language poet!
The other plaque is William Wilfred Campbell’s Down the Merivale Road. Campbell’s last home is nearby, just west of Merivale Road.
The short ceremony includes poets Andree Lacelle and Diane Schmolka, literary historian and archivist, Dr. Steven Artelle, and Councillor Keith Egli.
Speaking of putting poets on the map, if you missed it, you can listen to the the mp3 of the segment from CKCU radio on the Tree Seeds Workshop “You Are Here” poetry/map project with host Hilary Duff interviewing myself, Monty Reid and rob mclennan.
All are welcome to join this evening, the 8th, at 6:45pm at Arts Court, second floor. At 8pm, Tree continues with feature readers Daniel David Moses and Roger Nash.

The first, standing up. Two chapbooks with one dos-a-dos binding which you can get at the fair, from me directly or thru the phafours press page

Stepping back in time, fresh from the printers!

Measuring where to fold the trifold cover.

Wrapper bands cut to go.

Bri lending a hand with stapling.

And a set ready to go to the fair. Which fair?

See you there?

It comes back from the printer tomorrow! Here’s approximately what the covers look like.

Air Out / In Air: 21 Poets for the Guatemala Stove Project (phafours, 2011)
A dos-à-dos bound chapbook with 21 poets from around North America: Allison Armstrong, Shai Ben-Shalom, Jeremy Colangelo, Dawn Corrigan, Czandra, James DeMers, Amanda Earl, Phil Hall, Rick Kempa, Adrienne Mercer, rob mclennan, Rhonda Melanson, Mike Montreuil, My Name Is Scot, Monty Reid, Nedjo Rogers, Jade Scapillato, Kevin Spenst, Luminita Suse, Danielle Susi, and Robert Swereda. Edited by Pearl Pirie.
$10. All proceeds go to the Guatemala Stove Project. It goes on sale starting at the Ottawa Small Press Fair, Jack Purcell Centre, Nov 5, noon to 5pm

From all around Ontario and Quebec, out west and from the East Coast, we have a lineup of a reunion.

Bernadette, our out of provincer, is a multi-genre writer from Regina SK. Her collection of poetry, This hot place (Thistledown 2010), was shortlisted for the Saskatchewan First Book Award. An excerpt from her unpublished fiction manuscript won first place for Children’s Literature at the 2011 SWG Short Manuscript Awards. She’s happy to be visiting Ottawa again.
Frances’s poetry and fiction have appeared across Canada and in the U.S. in anthologies and literary magazines including The Fiddlehead, Room and CV 2, and as a LeafPress.ca “Monday’s poem”. Awards include Arc’s Diana Brebner Prize, and second place in Prairie Fire’s Banff Centre Bliss Carmen Award. Happily making her home in Ottawa for 16 years, Frances still draws on her strong ties to Regina and Vancouver.
Jacqueline, of Acadian origin, grew up along the ocean shores of New Brunswick. She spent the better part of her career in Ottawa where she worked as a communicator for a public sector organization. She is currently working on a suite of ekphrastic poems on Frederick Varley’s paintings.
Peter is a Lanark County-based writer. He is currently working on his first work of fiction: a novel that alternates between a northern Ontario Cree community and southern Arizona, and which explores the personal effects of memory, family history and environment – and their loss – through the adventures of a (for want of a better term) post-modern “odd couple.”
Gwen is a teacher, a writer and a picture book reviewer (www.marysatlas.blogspot.com). She is the author of the Mary’s Atlas picture book series, a McNally Robinson best seller, but you can also find this former prairie gal’s writing in big people sources such as The Globe and Mail. She’s taken part in the Ottawa International Writers Festival school program, and recently placed second in the CAA-NCR short fiction contest for her story, “Sand.”
Vanessa is a Toronto-based writer and performing musician. She is currently working on an interconnected novel and album, two short stories, and trying to learn how to write poetry. She will read a poem and sing a song.
Pearl is a writer, blogger, poet, with optional camera attachment. She has 2 longer poetry collections and 5 chapbooks out over the last 4 years. She is sending out her backlog with 2 chapbooks and 1 book out there circulating. She organizes the Tree Seed Workshop Series. She’ll be hosting the night.
Robin is the brainstorm behind this idea of a reunion reading of writing retreat folks. She would probably not admit how startling crisp, delicate, precise and powerful her poetry is but luckily this is ghost written.