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Poet Fred Wah Reading in SFU Special Collections
Date: 2016-10-27
Name(s): Derksen, Jeff, 1958-, Power, Tony, Wah, Fred, 1939-
Description: Born in 1939 in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Fred Wah grew up in Nelson, B.C.; His long career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. In the early 1960s, while attending the University of British Columbia, Wah was a founding editor of the influential avant-garde 'poetry newsletter' TISH and a member of the group of student-writers who gathered around the magazine, including several who went on to distinguished careers - George Bowering, Frank Davey, Daphne…
Poetry Reading on November 25 - Ken Babstock
Date: 2014-11-25
Name(s): Babstock, Ken, 1970-, Power, Tony
Description: Newfoundland-born, Toronto-based poet Ken Babstock is the author of On Malice, recently published by Coach House Press, plus four previous collections of poetry, all of which have received critical acclaim and been awarded major literary prizes, including the Trillium and Griffin. His work has been widely anthologized in Canada, Britain and the U.S. and translated into Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, and French. He is presently visiting writer-in-residence in the University of British Columbia…
Poetry Readings in Special Collections on April 15: Madeleine Thien and Thursdays Writing Collective
Date: 2014-04-15
Name(s): Burnham, Clint, Gardiner, Elee Kraljii, 1970-, Thien, Madeleine, 1974-, Thomas, Maegan, Thursdays Writing Collective
Description: Madeleine Thien, at the time of this reading SFU's Ellen & Warren Tallman Writer in Residence was born in Vancouver, and educated at both SFU and UBC. She is one of the most accomplished and internationally renowned young fiction writers in Canada. Her short stories and novels have been published throughout the English speaking world, and translated into approximately 18 languages. The Thursdays Writing Collective, founded in 2008, is made up of more than 150 artists, activists, slam poets…
Poetry Readings on October 9: Phinder Dulai and Renee Saklikar
Date: 2014-09-09
Name(s): Dulai, Phinder, Power, Tony, Saklikar, Renée Sarojini
Description: Phinder Dulai is the Surrey-based author of dream/arteries (Talonbooks, Fall 2014) and two previous books of poetry: Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp, 1995) and Basmati Brown (Nightwood, 2000). His most recent work has been published in Canadian Literature and Cue Books Anthology; earlier work has appeared in numerous other Canadian magazines. Dulai is a cofounder of the Surrey-based interdisciplinary contemporary arts group The South of Fraser Inter Arts Collective (SOFIA/c).Renée…
Poets Stephen Collis + Juliane Okot Bitek
Date: 2017-01-26
Name(s): Collis, Stephen, Okot Bitek, Juliane, 1966-, Power, Tony
Description: Stephen Collis's most recent, and seventh, book of poetry is Once in Blockadia (Talon Books 2016). Currently he is visiting and writing about poet Phyllis Webb. He lives on Coast Salish Territories and teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University. Juliane Okot Bitek was born in Kenya to Ugandan exiles and now lives in Vancouver. A teacher and UBC doctoral candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies, she is also an essayist and poet whose work has been anthologized and published widely in literary…
Reading by Novelist Gurjinder Basran in Special Collections, March 14, 2013
Date: 2013-03-14
Name(s): Basran, Gurjinder, Swanick, Eric L.
Description: North Delta fiction writer Gurjinder Basran is a graduate of SFU's Writer's Studio. Her debut novel, Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), which has been described as a 'Canadian Romeo and Juliet', was published to excellent reviews; it was awarded the B.C. Book Awards' Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2011, having first won the Mother Tongue Press's Search for the Next Great B.C. Novel Contest.
Reading by poet and scholar Ammiel Alcalay in Special Collections
Date: 2016-01-15
Name(s): Alcalay, Ammiel, Collis, Stephen
Description: Poet, novelist, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay is deputy chair of the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and former chair of Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures at Queens College. His books include a little history (2013), from the warring factions, (2002), neither wit nor gold 2011), Islanders (2010), Scrapmetal (2007), Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays, 1982-1999 (1999), and After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (…
Reading by Poet Lisa Robertson
Date: 2017-09-21
Name(s): Power, Tony, Robertson, Lisa, 1961-
Description: Internationally celebrated poet Lisa Robertson was born in Toronto and lived for many years in Vancouver. She studied at SFU in the '80s, with the English Dept's George Bowering, Roy Miki, Rob Dunham and Robin Blaser, and Donna Zapf of FPA. She funded her studies working as a night cleaning person and with research jobs, including cataloguing for Special Collections the audio poetry archive in the Contemporary Literature Collection, working with the Wordsworth Collection, and contributing to…
Reading by poets Lissa Wolsak and Stephen Collis in Special Collections, Wednesday March 27, 2013
Date: 2013-03-27
Name(s): Collis, Stephen, Power, Tony, Wolsak, Lissa
Description: Lissa Wolsak, poet and essayist, works as an energy-field therapist and goldsmith in Vancouver. A major collection of her work, Squeezed Light: Collected Works 1994–2005, was published by Station Hill Press in 2010 to many outstanding reviews. A second volume is in the works; in addition,poetry and books are orthcoming from Yellow Edenwald Field, Xeroxial Editions, Tinfish Press, Airfoil, and Above/Ground Press. Recently a special issue of the SFU journal Poetic Front was devoted to scholars…
Reading by Poets Mariner Janes and Dennis E. Bolen in SFU Special Collections, November 7, 2013
Date: 2013-11-07
Name(s): Bolen, Dennis E., Janes, Mariner, Power, Tony
Description: Mariner Janes was born in Victoria, BC and raised in East Vancouver. His books include The Monument Cycles (Talonbooks 2013), and blueprint,a chapbook. He has also been published in West Coast Line. While studying at SFU, he co-edited iamb magazine, a venue for new and emerging writers. Mariner works in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and aims to bring the multitude of beautiful voices he finds there into his work, through found poetry, transcription, and storytelling. He is currently at work on…
Reading by Poets Mariner Janes and Dennis E. Bolen in SFU Special Collections, November 7, 2013
Date: 2013-02-20
Name(s): Browne, Colin, 1946-, Power, Tony
Description: A co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing and of SFU's Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, Colin Browne is the author of a number of critically acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Ground Water (2002), which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; The Shovel (2007), shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Award; and The Properties (Talonbooks, 2012).Browne's films include Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye (2003), Father and Son (1992) and…
Reading by poets: Michael Boughn and Lissa Wolsak
Date: 2018-02-01
Name(s): Boughn, Michael, Power, Tony, Wolsak, Lissa
Description: Michael Boughn attended SFU from 1968-1970 where he was introduced to the World by Robin Blaser. As a result, he has published numerous books of poetry, and essays on postmodern culture in film, writing, architecture, and music. Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-epic was 'accidentally' (the author claims) short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2011. Great Canadian Poems for the Aged Vol. 1 Illus. Ed. (2012), despite its Great Canadian Poems, was not short-listed for…
Readings by Poet Benjamin Hollander
Date: 2016-06-02
Name(s): Collis, Stephen, Hollander, Benjamin
Description: Poet Benjamin Hollander was born in Israel and immigrated to New York City at an early age. He presently lives in California. His books include: In the House Un-American (Clockroot/Interlink, 2013) Memoir American (Punctum, 2013) Vigilance (Beyond Baroque, 2005) Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli, (Parrhesia, 2004) The Book of Who Are Was (Sun & Moon Press, 1997) How to Read, Too (Leech Books, 1992) and, as editor, Translating Tradition: Paul Celan in France (ACTS, 1988), and A Book of…
Readings by Writers, Rita Wong and Christine LeClerc
Date: 2015-09-22
Name(s): Leclerc, Christine, Power, Tony, Wong, Rita
Description: Rita Wong grew up in Calgary and currently lives in Vancouver. She has a doctorate from SFU and is the author of three books of poetry, Monkeypuzzle (1998), Forage (2007, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Prize), and Undercurrent (2015), as well as Sybil Unrest (2008; rev. ed. 2013), co-written with her frequent collaborator Larissa Lai. Christine LeClerc is a Vancouver-based writer and anti-pipeline/ tar sands activist. A graduate of the UBC Creative Writing program, she has published two books…
Talk on October 20: Learning from the Wordsworth Trust's Collections
Date: 2014-10-20
Name(s): Cowton, Jeff, Linley, Margaret, Power, Tony
Description: Dove Cottage, at the heart of the English Lake District National Park, was the home of William Wordsworth during his most creative years. Here he wrote his autobiographical masterpiece'The Prelude'; it was also here that his sister Dorothy wrote her 'Grasmere Journals'. The Wordsworth Trust owns the historic site and the world's greatest collection of manuscripts by the two writers and others of their family and circle, as well as an internationally important collection of first editions and…