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Virtual Panel Discussion on Literary Appropriation in Canada: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, 1:30-3:00 P.M.

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In | Appropriate

https://www.gordonhillpress.com/collections/titles/products/inappropriate

The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery, in conjunction with Renison University College, University of Waterloo, hosted a synchronous panel discussion on Canadian literary appropriation. Growing out of interviews on this subject recently published in Gordon Hill Press’s In/Appropriate, this event was open to members of ARTS 130, friends of The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery, and the general public.

The panel included Jeremy Luke Hill (publisher), Kim Davids Mandar (editor), and three contributors to In/Appropriate: Farzana Doctor, Wayne Grady, and Mahak Jain. (Please see links for biographies below.)

Here is the video link to the synchronous discussion:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZTRkZDZmNDktOWNkOS00MmFlLWJlNjEtNTAwZjRhYzI0YzQ1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f9f52fd2-fdcd-41ec-a954-ec07e9742d4b%22%7d

Assistance was provided by Victoria Feth of The Centre for Teaching Excellence at University of Waterloo.

The event was sponsored by two long-time friends of The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery, Janice Ferri and Peter Skoggard.

The Elora Poetry Centre was excited to engage in present discourse on literary appropriation in Canada. It was our pleasure to host these five distinguished panelists who are helping to determine the direction that Canadian literature will take in the near future. In light of recent controversies that resulted in the publication of another important book on the current state of Canadian literature, Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, we want to be part of these discussions.

Here are the biographical links:

https://vocamus.net/press/authors/jeremy-luke-hill

https://www.gordonhillpress.com/products/kim-davids-mandar

read://http_farzanadoctor.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffarzanadoctor.com%2Fbio%2F

https://waynegrady.ca/

https://www.mahakjain.com/bio/

Jeremy Luke Hill’s Poetry of Thought

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Book Launch: 29 June 2019, 4:00 p.m. Jeremy Luke Hill’s Poetry of Thought has been published by Interludes of the Elora Poetry Centre. Luke read from and signed his new chapbook. Music was by Adam and Rain, an acoustic duo who play folk/roots inspired original music, and uniquely interpreted covers.

Luke is the publisher at Gordon Hill Press, based in Guelph. He is also the Managing Director of Vocamus Writers Community, a non-profit community organization that supports book culture in Guelph.

He has written a collection of poetry, short prose, and photography called Island Pieces. Other works include three chapbooks of poetry called Can Con, Trumped, and These My Streets; two poetry broadsheets called Grounded and Indexical; and an ongoing series of poetry broadsheets called Conversations with Viral Media. He also writes a semi-regular column on chapbooks for The Town Crier. His writing has appeared in The Bull Calf, CV2, EVENT Magazine, Filling Station, Free Fall, The Goose, HA&L, The Maynard, paperplates, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Rusty Toque, The Town Crier, The Windsor Review.

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Covenant Chains: A New Folk Opera

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Kevin heronJones

Kevin heronJones is the first writer-in-residence for the city of Brampton. An author, poet, journalist, editor, actor, and lecturer, he is perhaps best known for his spoken word performances, as founder of the PoeticSoul poetry series, the Duel of the Iron Mic poetry series in collaboration with Unblind, the Iron Mic Slam at Ryerson [now…

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Jerry Prager

Born in Toronto, raised in Muskoka; a resident of Elora, he is the author of several published and self-published books of poetry, historical research into the Guelph mafia, anti-slavery activism on the Grand River River; and has a book of monologues Echoes in the Timbers published in folio by the Elora Poetry Centre. Vocamus Press published his…

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100 Thousand Poets for Change September 30 4pm

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The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery presented the annual global “100 Thousand Poets for Change” day at which poets and artists around the world celebrated peace, sustainability, and justice, and called for serious social, environmental, and political change. Canadian poet and artist, bill bissett, the “shaman of sound and performance,” read/chanted/danced his work. Among bissett’s awards are The George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. The event was held on September 30th at 4p.m. at the Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery. There was live music, finger food, and conversation.
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Asa Boxer Sunday 30 July -4pm

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Boxer 2015
Montreal poet Asa Boxer returned to the Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery for the fourth year on Sunday, July 30, at 4:00 P.M. to read from his series of poems about the undead: zombies, vampires, and ghouls, including the poem “Zombie Apocalypse – after Solzhenitsyn.” With mischievous humour, these poems examine cruelty, brainwashing, and just plain stupidity.
Asa Boxer’s poetry has garnered several prizes and is included in various anthologies around the world. His books are The Mechanical Bird (Signal, 2007), Skullduggery (Signal, 2011), Friar Biard’s Primer to the New World (Frog Hollow Press, 2013), and Etymologies (Anstruther Press, 2016). He is also a founder and manager of the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Asa Boxer is the son of the well-known poet Avi Boxer, who with others, such as Irving Layton, formed the poetry scene in Montreal.
For more information, go to The Elora Poetry Centre at EloraPoetryCentre.ca.
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Di Brandt Saturday 24 June—4.00 p.m

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Saturday 24 June—4.00 p.m. Di Brandt read from her work. Here is a brief biography.

Di Brandt is the author and editor of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, creative essays and literary criticism. She has received numerous recognitions and prizes for her writing, including the Gerald Lampert Award for “best first book of poetry in Canada” for her bestselling debut collection questions i asked my mother (which was recently re-issued in a 30th anniversary tribute edition with afterword by Tanis MacDonald); the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award for Agnes in the sky; the CAA National Poetry Prize for Jerusalem, beloved; the Foreword Gold Medal for Watermelon Syrup: A Novel (with Annie Jacobsen and Jane Finlay-Young), and the Gabrielle Roy Prize for “best book of literary criticism in Canada” for Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry (with Barbara Godard).  Now You Care was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Trillium Ontario Book of the Year, and the Pat Lowther Award.

Di Brandt’s collaborative multimedia works include Emily, the Way You Are, a one woman chamber opera about the life and works of Emily Carr, with composer Jana Skarecky; and Awakenings: Poetry and Music in Four Voices (with Dorothy Livesay, Rebecca Campbell and Carol Ann Weaver).  Di Brandt has taught at five Canadian universities including the University of Alberta, the University of Windsor, Ontario, and Brandon University, Manitoba, where she held the first Canada Research Chair in the Creative Arts, and developed an innovative multimedia creative arts program that was emulated in new interdisciplinary programs across the country.   She has given readings, lectures and  workshops around the world, and held guest fellowships in Scotland, New York, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Japan. She currently lives in Winnipeg.

Two young cellists, Gillian and Rachel Young, played after the reading.  Following this there was, of course, the usual finger food and drinks so that we could exchange ideas and experiences.