The Love Poetry Festival,
July 28, 2018
5.00 - 7.00p
Queen Books
914 Queen St. E. at Logan Avenue
Michelle Alfano (emcee) is the author of the personal memoir The Unfinished Dollhouse (Cormorant Books, 2017) which was selected as one of The Globe 100 Best Books of the Year in 2017. Her novella, Made up of Arias, was the 2010 winner of the F.G. Bressani Award for Short Fiction. Her short story “Opera”, on which the novella was based, was a finalist for a Journey Prize anthology.
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Born when rotary telephones came in
multiple colours, Domenico Capilongo
began writing with pencil and paper, passing poetry notes from the back of the
class. He still writes in notebooks, used a typewriter in high school, and his
earliest published poems were printed on a dot-matrix printer. His first books
of poetry, I thought elvis was Italian
(2008) and hold the note (2010), as
well as his first book of short fiction, Subtitles
(Guernica, 2012), came very close to winning awards and were all mailed in the
post. A high school creative writing teacher and karate instructor, he lives with
his wife and children in Toronto. Find out more at domcapilongo.wixsite.com/home
George Elliott Clarke has won several prizes, been nominated for
a few others, and has published seventeen works-in-verse, including plays, opera
libretti, book-length narratives, and narrative lyric suites, and epic poetry.
He was Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and Poet Laureate for Canada
(2016-17).
James Deahl is the author of twenty-seven literary
titles, the five most recent being: Red Haws To Light The Field, To
Be With A Woman, Landscapes (with Katherine L. Gordon), Unbroken
Lines, and Two Paths Through The Seasons (with Norma West
Linder). He is the father of Sarah, Simone, and Shona.
Norma West Linder is a member of The Writers’ Union of
Canada. A novelist, poet, and short story writer, she lives in Sarnia where she
taught English and conducted classes in Creative Writing at Lambton College
until her retirement. Her latest publications are The Pastel Planet
(children’s novel) and Tall Stuff (adult novel), both from Hidden Brook
Press.
Catherine
Graham is the author of
the award-winning novel Quarry and
six acclaimed poetry collections. The
Celery Forest was named a CBC Books Top 10 Canadian Poetry Collection of
2017 and appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List. Winner of IFOA’s
Poetry NOW, she teaches at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. See more at catherinegraham.com and on Twitter: @catgrahampoet
Stedmond
Pardy is a left handed
poet from Toronto. He has performed his work at various venues, in the city and
on the radio. His first full length book the pleasures of this planet, aren't
enough is coming soon.
Banoo
Zan has approximately170
published poems and three books, two of which were released after she landed in
Canada—Songs of Exile (2016) and Letters to My Father (2017.) She founded
Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Toronto’s most diverse and brave poetry reading
and open mic series, in 2012.
With thanks to the League of Canadian Poets and
The Writers' Union of Canada for its support
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