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Kim Minkus at the Open Text Reading Series

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: KIM MINKUS

Kim MINKUS

Kim MINKUS

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts & the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Fall 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University concludes on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver poet/CapU instructor Kim Minkus

CE 148 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Kim Minkus is the author of 9 Freight (LINEbooks 2007) and Thresh(SnareBooks 2009). Other work appears in FRONT Magazine, Interim, West Coast Line, The Poetic Front, LOCUSPOINT, ottawater, Memewar and Jacket. Her academic research focuses on contemporary poetry, feminist poetry and the archive. In the spring of 2006 she was a fellow at King’s College in London, England and the archival research she completed while there lead to the publication of her book 9 Freight. Currently she is a writing instructor at Capilano University.

stripped down. crawl and stick. folds flutter. stress random stress
cathexis stress stumble. bare seizure. entrails near the surface. bodily
movements ratchet each emotion. they all exhaust me. tremble while you tell
me it matters. glean meanings where there are none.

— from “Station”

For info:
Roger Farr, Creative Writing Convener
rfarr AT capilanou DOT ca
604.986.1911 (2291)

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one sign of good writing

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Blogging for Writers: a reading list

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Shakespeare blogging

Shakespeare blogging

I’m only putting this down/posting it up while I think of it so I don’t lose it: it’s the reference list I used to create Blogging for Writers, also known as Blogging As Writer’s Practice. Feel free to read them all yourself, but then feel guilty enough to register for the class anyway.

For Journaling:

  • Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer’s Life by Bonni Goldberg
  • The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity by Tristine Rainer
  • Life’s Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest by Christina Baldwin
  • Word Play, Word Power: A Woman’s Personal Growth Workbook by Kimberley Snow

For Writing Exercises and Education:

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Meet Michael Turner

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Michael Turner, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Michael Turner, by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Another from an email, in this case the Instant Coffee email for artists in BC, which is a newish thing I’m really loving. There’s a website, too.

MICHAEL TURNER

SFU’s new Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence

Friday October 2, 7:30pm
SFU Harbour Centre, Room 1400

Sponsored by the SFU Department of English, the Office of the SFU Dean of Arts and Social
Sciences, the Office of SFU President Michael Stevenson, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Michael Turner is an important Canadian writer and cultural figure who is well known for his novels, poetry, screen plays and art criticism. His first book of poetry, Company Town (1991) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. With Hard Core Logo (1993) and American Whiskey Bar (1997)
— both of which have been adapted to the screen — Turner moves into a mixed genre practice, creating fragmentary narratives that combine aspects of the novel, poetry and the film script. His
1999 novel The Pornographer’s Poem, published by Doubleday Canada, won the B.C. Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Award; a screen adaptation is also once again in development. His new novel, 8
x 10 (Doubleday Canada) is being launched at this event.

The Ties That Bind…and Choke

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