Tuesday Art: October 26, 2010 |
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| Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:00 |
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On Tuesday, October 26, Tree will host poet/prose author Betsy Struthers and slam poet Oni the Haitian Sensation at the Ottawa Arts Court. An open mic will begin the night at 8pm. Preceding the reading from 6:45-7:45, Ronnie Brown will host a workshop for new writers for the second of four times. The topic this week is excerpting the world--using events in your life and from the world around you in your poetry. Betsy Struthers was the winner of the 2004 Lowther Award for Still (Black Moss). She has published eight books of poetry and three novels as well as co-editing an anthology of essays about teaching poetry. Her new book, Relay: Short Fictions is a series of linked pieces that transcend the boundary between prose and poetry to present a picaresque, intertwined portait of modern life in all its rich complexity. Betsy recently won first prize in the GritLit Poetry competition for a series of poems titled Family Matters. Her poems and fiction have been published in many anthologies; most recently, Pith and Wry: Canadian Poetry; In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry; and Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry. She has taught workshops in both poetry and fiction to students of all ages. Oni the Haitian Sensation (aka Ingrid Joseph) is an internationally recognized slam poet and Ottawa's poetry diva. She has been commissioned to write poetry for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the CBC, the Bytowne Museum and Ottawa's Winterlude Festival. The first Canadian woman to tour the European slam poetry circuit, Oni has performed for audiences in Europe, Australia, Canada and the U.S. She directed Canada's first National Poetry Slam, the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics, and has curated for the Ottawa International Writers Festival. *** Tree readings are held every second and fourth Tuesday of the month in the Arts Court Library, 2 Daly Avenue (behind the Rideau Centre at the corner of Daly Avenue and Nicholas Street). An open-mic set for published writers commences at 8:00 p.m., with the featured readers to follow. A workshop for newer writers is held before the reading from 6:45 until 7:45 p.m. Admission is free.
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