George Bowering is Canada's first Poet Laureate, an Order of Canada recipient, a two-time Governor General's Award-Winning Poet, and one of the founding TISH poets. Read his bio here: http://ow.ly/133xE. | Poetry event features George Bowering, Colin Browne, Jeff Derksen, Daphne Marlatt (reading from her Canadian Japanese Noh play 'The Gull'), Roy Miki, and Fred Wah. Event date: September 30, 2009 at the Anza Club in Vancouver, BC.
There is nothing like a poet lifting the words off the page and projecting them by way of your ears, into your heart. Or perhaps that should be 'the' heart, the heart that we all share as humans thinking and feeling and reacting.
gratefully, wordofgord
thewordofgord 2 years ago