TIP is very proud to have Saskatchewan’s very own Louise Halfe feature next Sunday. Halfe is Saskatchewan’s’ poet laureate and has been nominated for countless literary awards including the Governor General’s award for Poetry. For more info, check out our poets page here. We will also have our first community stage of the season, featuring some of Saskatoon’s best and brightest young emerging poets.
Tonight it's Poetry Events
September 2010 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 Events on September 5, 2010
Louise Halfe features at TIP
Starts: 2:00 pm
Location: Lydia's Pub on Broadway
Description: TIP is very proud to have Saskatchewan’s very own Louise Halfe feature next Sunday. Halfe is Saskatchewan’s’ poet laureate and has been nominated for countless literary awards including the Governor General’s award for Poetry.
For more info, visit our website at tonightitspoetry.com.
We will also have our first community stage of the season, featuring some of Saskatoon’s best and brightest emerging poets.TIP Ft. Louise Halfe
Starts: 8:00 pm
Location: Lydia's Pub
Description: Louise Bernice Halfe, also known as SKYDANCER was born in Two Hill, Alberta. She was raised on the Saddle Lae Indian Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. Louise earned her bachelor of Social Work from the University of Regina, and a certificate in Drugs and Alcohol Counselling from Nechi Institute. During a six year stay in northern Saskatchewan while attending satellite classes and commuting to the University of Saskatchewan (a 3 hour drive), she kept a journal; as a result her first book of poetry, Bear Bones & Feathers evolved and was published by Coteau Books and shortlisted for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award and the Gerald Lambert Award. In 1996 the book won the Milton Acorn Award. Louise's work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, notably the Saskatchewan NeWest Review. Louise has been on air with Peter Gzowski Morningside, CBC The Arts Tonight and Ambience. Sky Dancer has been a workshop leader in Banff with Rachel Wyatt and Robert Kroetsch. She has traveled extensively across Canada and abroad doing readings and presentations of her work. Sky Dancer, Louise's second book, Blue Marrow, is a mixture of prose, poetry and journal writing from voices of the past and is published by McClelland & Stewart, 1998. Louise recenly completed a two week residency as the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writer in Calgary, Alberta. Sky Dancer, Louise is married, has two children, one of which has made her a proud Grandmother of two.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Events on September 12, 2010
Haiku Death Match 3!!!
Starts: 8:00 pm
Location: Lydia's Pub on Broadway
Description: Up to 16 poets will sign-up on a first come first serve basis (7pm).
In head to head match-ups, poets will take turns reading their original haikus and the the entire audience will be the judge.
The winners of each match will move onto the next round until two haiku competers remain. In a final round, the two poets will battle for the title of HAIKU MASTER of SASKATOON!
Things Poets Will Need:
1) A total of 12 haiku--three for each round.
2) The fortitude and strength to fight to the death...with their words.
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Events on September 19, 2010
TIP ft. Joe Rosenblatt and Allan Safarik
Starts: 8:00 pm
Location: Lydia's Pub on Broadway
Description: Joe Rosenblatt was born in Toronto in l933. He started writing seriously in the early sixties, and in l966 his first book, The L.S.D. Leacock, was published by Coach House Press. Since then he has published more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His selected poems (1962-1975), Top Soil, won the Governor-General’s Award for poetry. Another volume of selected poems,(l963-l985), Poetry Hotel, won The B.C. Book Prize, l986 for poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals in North America.
Allan Safarik was born in Vancouver and raised in a commercial fishing family on Vancouver Heights in North Burnaby where he spent much of his childhood exploring the waterfront when he wasn’t playing soccer in East End parks. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, is an editor and was a co-founder of Blackfish Press in British Columbia. In 1986, he edited the award winning anthology Vancouver Poetry. Safarik, a long time resident of White Rock, BC, currently resides in Dundurn, Saskatchewan and teaches Imaginative Writing at St. Peter’s College in Muenster. Safarik won the 2003 John V. Hicks Manuscript Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry (in the name of Anne Szumigalski) for When Light Falls from the Sun Hagios Press. He has a B.A. in English from Simon Fraser University. His works include How I Know The Sky Is A River: Selected and New Shorter Poems 1978-1998 (Hagios, 1999), Bird Writer’s Handbook (2003), and Blood of Angels (2004) Yellowgrass (2008).
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Events on September 26, 2010
Saskatoon Poetry Slam ft. Spencer Butt
Starts: 8:00 pm
Location: Lydia's Pub on Broadway
Description: Spencer Butt is one of Canada’s most original spoken word artists and slam poets. He currently has 3 chapbooks available. One is named “Sometimes I Wish Raptors Existed So I Could Get Disemboweled And Finally Spill My Guts To Someone” and two is called “My Name Is Scientist” and three has the title of “Better Weird Than Dead”. Check out his myspace.
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