| The Banff Centre Writing Studios have an impressive reading series lined up throughout May, featuring distinguished past and present faculty and participants. Unless you have a time machine or you’re in the loop, you’ve already missed Alistair MacLeod, who started things off on May 1. The rest of the lineup includes Joan Barfoot and Michael Crummey on May 8, Greg Hollingshead and Helen Humphreys on May 13, Zsuzsi Gartner and Kim Maltman on May 15, Roo Borson and Mark Jarman on May 22nd, and finishes up with Edna Alford and Don McKay on May 27. All readings begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Rolston Recital Hall in the Music and Sound Building. Admission is free. Visit www.banffcentre.ca/cfa/events/2003/05.htm for more details.
Congratulations to local poet Nancy Jo Cullen. Her book Science Fiction Saint was already a double-nominee in this week’s Alberta Book Awards (full results next week) and now it’s added a nomination for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry.
And speaking of poets, the Calgary Stroll of Poets has issued a call for submissions for the 2003 Stroll of Poets, which will be held on September 7 at venues throughout the Kensington District. To be considered for this year’s event, send three original, unpublished works of poetry, fiction or drama to The Society of Poets Bards and Storytellers, along with a bio of 75 words or less, your full contact information, and a cheque for $10. For details, call 276-6151 or 948-3633, or e-mail calgarystroll@yahoo.com. The deadline for is June 1.
On May 14, filling Station magazine presents "Schwas & Syntax: The Fred Wah Festival Warm-up" featuring readings by Susan Holbrook, Salma Hussain, and the launch of Jacqueline Turner’s Careful. This event begins at 7pm at Steeps, the Urban Teahouse in Mount Royal Village, and the cost of admission is "a wee cup of tea," which is about as good as it gets if you’re going to a reading.
NeWest Press presents "Words of Canada’s West," featuring Robert Pepper-Smith (The Wheel Keeper), Caterina Edwards (Whiter Shade Of Pale/ Becoming Emma), Lee Shedden (editor of A Century Of Grant MacEwan) and Barb Howard (Whipstock), on May 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the John Dutton Theatre at the Calgary Public Library.
If you’re picked this issue up hot off the presses on Thursday, May 8, you can still hurry down to Annie’s Book Company tonight at 7:30 p.m. to hear a reading by Hernan Restrepo. Restrepo was born in Colombia and has two books of poems published in Spanish. He has lived in Calgary since 1999 and Poems on the Path is his first bilingual book.
If you didn’t pick up Fast Forward until Friday (shame on you!), you still have an option for tonight. Mark Anthony Jarman reads from his travel memoir Ireland's Eye, a raucous and hilarious journey through a modern-day Ireland teeming with ghosts from the past, at 7:30 p.m. at Pages Books on Kensington. |
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