Sean Moreland - July 2009 - Hot Ottawa Voices ( part one )

HOT OTTAWA VOICES
On Tuesday, July 14th, the Tree Reading Series will host Hot Ottawa Voices, with three local poets:




Sean Moreland has spent the last year vacillating between Kingston and Ottawa, Ontario. As of August 2009, he'll be living in North Bay, teaching at Nipissing University and communing with the black bears. His poetry has appeared in venues including bywords.ca, The Ottawa Arts Review, The Malahat Review, NoD Magazine, Variations and The Peter F. Yacht Club. His chapbook, Lupercalia, is available from the Bywords Press,and Dalhousie Blues, a collaborative book with Christine McNair, Caleb Brassett and Jamie Bradley is available from Ex Hubris Press. He won the John Newlove award in 2007. In his other hand, he gingerly holds a PhD in English from the University of Ottawa.


Chris Jennings published his first chapbook, Vacancies, with believeyourown press in 2003. His poems have received honourable mention in both Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Poetry Contest and the ARC Poem of the Year Contest, and he has read his work across Canada and in the US. Chris was one of the original editors of Calgary's filling Station magazine, and he currently serves on the board of ARC and edits the on-line column How Poems Work. As a critic, he has written on a range of poets from Pindar to Alexander Pope to Ai to bill bissett for magazines, journals, conferences and encyclopaediae. Born and raised in Calgary, Chris moved to Toronto to pursue graduate studies at the University of Toronto and then to Ottawa where he has taught at the University of Ottawa and now works for the Geological Survey of Canada.

Gwendolyn Guth poetry weaves its life around her teaching, mothering, and academic writing. Her poems have been published by ottawater, bywords, yawp, above/ground press, Friday Circle (The Flash of Longing chapbook) and the University of Ottawa Press (selections in Al Purdy: The Ivory Thought). She has a Ph.D. in nineteenth-century Canadian women's writing and teaches eclectically and happily in the English Department at Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec. She is devoting the summer to her first full-length manuscript.

Tree readings are 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 commences at 8:00 p.m., with the featured readers to follow. Admission is free.

For more information, please see web site http://www.treereadingseries,ca/ or contact Tree at 613-292-1886, or email to: treereadingseries@live.ca

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[trysaratops]

at 6:14, the poet transforms into a human didjeridoo- very cool!